From 1990 to date, many have expressed their impressions, facts
or have shared memories regarding institutional reforms, or
political movements in the post-communist Albania. But one
institution that has not been so much on focus, or has been somehow
forgotten, in respect to the reforms, is the legal practice (in
Albanian: Avokatia).
Main comments regarding the law practice as a private profession
have been analyzing the reasons for its abrogation and then reasons
from its re-establishment in 1992. As already known its abrogation
was decided considering the private legal services as redundant, as
citizens of a happy country could have their rights and freedoms
protected by their state. No matter if the state was a prosecutor
and judge at the same time, it could function as a defense lawyer,
too. So, the reintroduction of the Ministry of Justice and the
legal profession in 1991 shortly after the fall of Berlin Wall and
the Bronze Statue of Enver Hoxha marks the start
