néstor established a law firm that cristina joined in 1979. the firm worked for banks and financial groups that filed eviction lawsuits, which had a growing rate at the time because the 1050 ruling of the central bank had increased the interest rates for mortgage loans. the kirchners acquired twenty-one land lots at cheap prices as they were about to be auctioned. their law firm defended military personnel accused of committing crimes during the dirty war. forced disappearances were common at the time, but unlike other lawyers the kirchners never signed a "habeas corpus". julio césar strassera, prosecutor in the 1985 trial of the juntas against the military, criticized the kirchners' lack of legal actions against the military, and considered their later interest in the issue a form of hypocrisy.