CRIDON de Paris has a salaried staff of 43, not including temporary personnel and trainees. Some of the positions are part-time. It also enjoys the support of six associate professors who have passed the "agrégation", a professor and a senior law faculty lecturer, and works with two lawyers. Under the authority of two director-consultants, the consultants are assigned to seven offices each focusing on a speciality. The four assistants are primarily assigned to the databases, the "CRIDON Presse" publication service and the organisation of Committee meetings. The ratio of secretarial personnel is unusually high. This is because CRIDON de Paris attaches particular importance to the conservation of as many documents as possible in digital form, the use of a voice server and real-time activity management. 2007 fiscal year A team of professionals 2007 fiscal year Specialised consultants Recruitment policy   Consultant recruitment varies according to whether a specific discipline is part of the core private law curriculum for the competitive examination known in France as the "Agrégation", or a more rarefied discipline that is not usually taught at the Faculty.   • For the former, consultants are generally contacted while they are studying for the examination and start to gain field experience that will help them to secure their academic success, and subsequently, they will remain attached to this company. • For the latter, the consultants are recruited from among experienced professionals in an activity that is closely or directly related to their speciality at CRIDON. The bureau dealing with city planning is honoured to have engaged the services of a former Government commissioner who took part in drafting legislation and also has experience of a DDE (Direction départementale de l'équipement). The commercial bureau would find profitable the collaboration with a former employee of the Caisse des dépôts with field experience in inspecting commercial companies on behalf of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations. The taxation bureau may hire the services of a former member of the litigation service at the D.G.I. but will not seek to secure the services of a former member of the D.L.F. (Direction de législation fiscale) a former employee of a leading American consultancy, as international financial packages are not the main component of CRIDON's work in tax-related cases. The rural bureau will typically engage the services of a former member of the F.N.S.E.A., the principal farmer's union in France, or a farmer's mutual fund (M.S.A.). Quality of recruitment is a vital aspect of CRIDON's activity, especially because it takes at least 5 years to train a good specialist.   Consultation is an activity that should start as early as possible. Erudition is not a sufficient quality, for a good consultant should also have a taste for teaching and an ability to adapt writing styles to transmit content to particular audiences. Recruitment for a core "agrégation" discipline Recruitment for a specialised discipline