Estudio socio-jurídico de los abogados en libre ejercicio profesional. El caso ecuatoriano.

Abstract

To determine empirically the elements, factors and social institutions who define the sociolegal culture of the independent lawyers in Ecuador, a descriptional investigation with an transversal mixed analysis of the selected sociological variables, made to a statistic sample of independant lawyers in Quito – Ecuador. A questionarie and an interview were made to determine the contexts: socio-economic (demografic and economic); educational (quality of legal formation; coherency of the academic and theoretical content applyed to real lawyer work field in Ecuador); professional (conditions under which independant attorney work is carried out); political involvement (ideological influence in reference to independant lawyer work); of perception of the ecuadorian legal system (wich are the elements that define efficiency or inefficiency of the legal system); and constitutional culture (the perception of coherency about Ecuador`s constitution), achieving, in contrast with a theoretical framework, to deduce those factors and social institutions who are the principal influence in the socio – legal culture of independant lawyers in Ecuador.