Flash Eurobarometer 34 (Lawyers and the Community Law)

Conditions of training and information of lawyers in the areas of
communal law.

Topics: Year of admission to the bar; name of affiliated professional
association of lawyers; number of office employees; specialization and
area of activity; university at which respondent was trained. Questions
on communal law: daily reference to communal law; most important
reasons for or against utilization of communal law; difficulties in
appeal to communal law and most important reasons; self-assessment of
knowledge of communal law; opportunities used for further education in
communal law. Training in the area of communal law: length, type, point
in time and evaluation of basic training in communal law during
college; judgement on the current study offerings as appropriate
training component for jurists; personal participation in measures for
further education on communal law; most important reasons for or
against participation in further education; most important points of
criticism; current interest in further education events in communal
law; temporal and content preferences for such further education
events; judgement on the activities of the professional association of
lawyers in view of further education offerings in communal law;
preferred institution for further education. Information about communal
law: preferred information media about communal law; satisfaction with
written or computer-aided sources of information about communal law;
improvement recommendations; problems in obtaining information;
preferred media to make it easier to access information about communal
law; assumed information need of lawyers of the country; specifying
personal information need; judgement on understandability, degree of
specialization, currency and accessibility of the information used by
the respondent about communal law; problem areas in obtaining
information. General assessments: general assumption about knowledge of
lawyers of the country in the area of communal law; designation of
those primarily responsible for the training and information of
lawyers; desire for greater naturalness of appeal to communal law;
initiatives that could promote the acquisition of this ´communal
reflex´.