Christos Kyriakidis is a Greek lawyer based in Athens, Greece. He studied law at the University of Athens, was admitted to the Athens bar in 1966, and worked as a partner in the Athens law firm Scandamis, Mourgelas, Damaskinos & Wallace.
Education
Kyriakidis studied law at the University of Athens, where he received the degree of Master of Laws in 1964. The university was founded on 3 May 1837 during the reign of King Otto of Greece, and it was initially named the Othonian University in his honour. It began with four faculties, including Law, and it is the oldest university of modern Greece.
The law school formed part of the university's original core together with the faculties of Theology, Medicine, and Philosophy. The institution was renamed the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1932, after its two separate legal entities were merged. Kyriakidis completed his legal education there before his admission to the Athens bar in 1966.
Career
Kyriakidis practiced law in Athens. He worked as a partner of Scandamis, Mourgelas, Damaskinos & Wallace, a law firm in the Greek capital, and he was admitted to the Athens bar in 1966.
Membership
His admission to the Athens bar in 1966 connected him with the Athens Bar Association. The association is a legal entity of public law whose history is closely tied to the organization of the legal profession in Greece. Its current legal form traces to a law voted in 1908, and it is regarded as the first and greatest bar association in the country.
The association is governed by a board of directors elected every three years and represents around 22,000 members. Among its activities, it has run a relief fund that supports lawyers and their families in need.
