ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses are those of Egypt, Syria and Morocco, which together include two-thirds of all lawyers in the Arab world. The number of lawyers has increased at a rapid rate in some of these countries. The number of registered lawyers in Egypt in 1960 was only 3,921 and jumped to 13,972 two decades later. During that period the number of lawyers in Egypt more than doubled in each decade. A study presented to the Eighteenth Congress of the Society of Bar Associations in Morocco observed a similar trend, arguing that the total number of lawyers-registered and trainees-in the country was 3,246 in 1985, and would rise to above 10,000 by the end of the century. Thus the lawyer/population ratio would rise to five for every 100,000 citizens. The study proceeded to suggest ways of limiting entry into the lawyer profession.
