The European Young Bar Association is a European non-profit association of young lawyers. Founded over 29 years ago, concretely, on 23 May 1993 in Prague, it brings together young bar associations from across Europe in one representative organisation, providing a unified voice for young lawyers on a continent-wide basis.
Carmen del Castillo is a Spanish in-house lawyer based in Barcelona. She works at Caixa Capital Risk, a Venture Capital management fund, dealing with investments in Startups, mainly in Spain, the EU and US. She is a member of the Barcelona Young Bar Association (Grupo de la Abogacía Joven – GAJ) and recently became the treasurer of EYBA´s Executive Committe.
The EYBA´s Research Committe detects the trends in the legal profession affecting young lawyers, identifies professional opportunities for young lawyers (such as international conferences, call for applications, scholarships, professional programmes, European projects) andmonitors legislation updates and judgments relevant at the European level.
Borja Llolin (Llollin Abogados) is the Spanish member of the Research Committe. He is based in Bilba and is also a member of the Confederación Española de la Abogacía Joven and president of AJA Bizkaia (Bizkaia Young Bar Association).