Eduardo J. Couture

 This man was an Uruguayan jurist, teacher and writer whose works are fundamental to the teaching of procedural law in Latin América. He was born in Montevideo in 1904 and died in 1954, at the age of 51.

He is considerated one of the greatest Latin American lawyer of all times, and one of his books called "Basis of the procedural civil law", is essential in the introduction courses of this subject, because it have a lot of basic concepts clearly explained, and the entire book is really friendly with the students, inasmuch as try to have a simple language to explain every single thing.
Such was his fame, that a lot of countries wants him to teach classes, courses and conferences in their universities, so he traveled the world teaching in cities like París, New York, New Orleans,Vienna, Rome, Lima, Sao Paulo, and in our country, in the city of Valparaíso.
In the year 1951 was named "Knight of the Legion of Honour" by France, for his contribution to the legal culture.
But the first thing I read from him, was his famous "Decalogue of the lawyer", a kind of compass or treasure map, which shows you the way to be a good lawyer. I'm gonna put the link (the purple thing in the bottom) of this anyway, but as a summary, Eduardo said that you have to study, think, work, fight, be loyal, tolerate, be patient, have faith, be able to forget and love the profession (the most important thing), to improve every day as a lawyer.
Regards!
Lawyer Decalogue