Mr Burguburu took over the presidency from Driss Chater at the closing ceremony of the annual UIA Congress in Dresden on Saturday.

International commission

He has been a member of the Paris Bar since 1966, and was chairman from 2004 to 2005. Mr Burguburu is currently international counsel at the Paris office of New York-based Debevoise & Plimpton.
The new UIA President is also a member of the Conseil National des Barreaux (French Law Society) and is the vice president of its international commission.
The UIA – which aims to promote the basic principles of the legal profession – was created in 1927 and has several thousand individual members, as well as more than 200 bar associations from over 110 countries.