[6][7][8][9] After the Civil War and in a situation of organizational chaos, in the midst of a harsh economic and social crisis, the single party of the Spanish Falange carried out a process of purge and expulsion of lawyers disaffected by the new political regime.

Specifically, it approves the Decree of June 19, 1943 by which the first corporation of bar associations is created, the General Council of the Illustrious Bar Associations of Spain, developed by Ministerial Order of October 14, 1943, a corporation more in a dictatorship that calls itself organic democracy.

[13] Pedrol Rius, who held the position of president from 1972 to 1992, adapted the institutions of the corporation to the new constitutional framework during the democratic Transition.

[14] It is organized internally through a General Assembly,[15] made up of all the 83 bar associations, which is held at least once a year and elects by direct and secret vote, every five years, a Governing Board made up of ten members, one Treasurer, a Librarian, a Secretary and governed by a President.

[17][18] The General Council of Spanish Lawyers is the third pillar of the justice system in Spain:[19] The General Council of the Spanish Legal Profession, the coordinating and executive representative body of the 83 Bar Associations, defends a Legal Profession based on values, free, independent, opinion leader, with social projection and at the forefront of the implementation of new technologies.