- The partners of established firms: the trajectories of eight lawyers

• Autor(a) principal: Visser, Ricardo
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Siqueira, Gustavo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Estudos Empíricos em Direito
• Texto Completo: https://reedrevista.org/reed/article/view/675
• topic: sociologia das profissões jurídicas; advogados empregadores; desigualdade social; sociology of law professions; lawyers employers; social inequality

this article analyzes eight qualitative interviews with lawyers, who are employers and earn high revenues. The investigation focuses in three main axes: a) social background and entrance in advocacy; b) the profil of the clientele and professional placement; c) professional activities at state organizations. In the first axis, three main forms of familial influence were detected: the direct form, in which the family member defines the carrier possibilities; the indirect, in which influence is observed, but the interviewee puts himself as having traced an autonomous trajectory; and the reproduction of a familly setting oriented by educational achievements. Taking the clientele profile in account, we could observe the predominance of corporations. In this particular issue, we detected the mobilization of social and political capitals, beyond law skills. Finally, professional activities in positions of state organizations were analyzed. Although, therese activities do not constitute a general rule, its incidence is not acidental.