Dagli ordini ai sindacati: l’avvocatura in età fascista

The aim of this essay is to trace the events that led, during the Fascist era, to the coexistence of the Bar Associations and the Syndicates, until the suppression of the former and the concentration in the latter of the power of representation of the category, the maintenance of professional registers and the disciplinary power over its members (Royal Decree Law no. 1578 of November 27, 1933), thus exercising exclusive control over the class, in a totalitarian design that no longer conceded anything to forensic autonomy.