Former fellow student he has no counsel in his family

It is a regular at the just-in-time, and on his election to the head of the National Federation of the Union of young lawyers, it was less a. Romain Carayol, just to be brought to the Presidency, indeed celebrated his thirty-nine years this year. The rules of the game are strict to the Fnuja: not possible election after forty years. In his words, it is almost "by chance" this young Parisian lawyer is engaged in the Union road. Counsel to the bar of Paris since 1997, he joined for the first time in 2002. "I was at the time in a very small office and I feel a little isolated." "It is like this all started," he says. Meetings in meetings at the Fnuja, it eventually joining the Office of the Federation and is charged with a report on the Council of the College. Evidence that the commitment he succeeds, he became in 2007 President of the Union of young lawyers of Paris. And to top it off, Member of the national Council of the bar two years later. Chance has made things.

But Romain Carayol assured, it is not entered in the Fnuja "in a spirit of careerist". With the Secretaries of the Conference of the internship, the Federation of young lawyers is one of the stables for the future Presidents or members of the Council of the order. It is also called by critics "Union of the young wannabees." If it serves as a good springboard, and allows, as recognized by Roman Carayol, "to gain notoriety and to expand its network", it must be recognized that the Fnuja is also a respected body, because it only represents the young lawyers of France.

Presence noticed the Minister

Its proposals in the consultation organised by Michèle Alliot-Marie on the reform of criminal procedure, have been particularly noticed. And this is not a coincidence if the keeper of the seals was selected to be present at the Congress of the Fnuja this year. "This was six years that it had not seen a Minister of Justice to our Congress," recalls, with some pride, its new President.

It defends itself from any careerism, Romain Carayol has certainly ambition and merit. Former fellow student, he has no counsel in his family. Born in Paris, it remains in the capital up to fourteen years, prior to joining Southwest, whence comes his family. He made his secondary studies at Albi and part in Toulouse then rub for the first time to the right, is also almost by chance. "It is a professor at the lycée that cautioned me register in economics, my initial idea, and go to the right." "Apparently, he was right", he says. Today associated cabinet Cayol, Cahen and Associates, far from the large structures in Anglo-Saxon, he specializes in a niche market, the transport law. "It is a very technical and not very developed right," he says. A promising niche in short. But it is very likely that for the year ahead - his term as President of the Fnuja short on twelve months-, Romain Carayol is likely to be held by the reform of the legal aid or the training of lawyers by the recovery of debt owed to carriers.