For one year, the designated Bâtonnier can increase his competence on various issues that he will have to address upon his entry into service.
The elected Chief of this brotherhood, at first called the prior, carried the banner of the order suspended from a pole or baston, during processions.
[6] This banner was sometimes decorated with a representation of St. Nicholas or St. Yves (another patron saint of lawyers).
An order of 23 October 1274 recognized lawyers as members of a constituent body in Parliament, bound by professional secrecy.
In terms of the Palace of Justice, it is a former lawyer chosen annually according to the order of the Tableau, to be the head of the community of lawyers and prosecutors, to be the master of their Chapel and their brotherhood, and preside over the tribunal that they hold for maintaining the discipline of the Palace and its regulations.