This article analyzes how forms of recognition of professional prerogatives are mobilized by lawyers from the exemplary conflict between a group of lawyers and a judge in a small city in the country side of Minas Gerais. Field research was conducted through document analysis, participant observation, and informal conversations with city attorneys. The conflict produced meanings about the forms of professional identification, but it also produced the articulation of strategies of action to call attention to the conflict in the defense of professional prerogatives. A division between the two groups was produced, one aligned with the judge and another recognized among them for their "courage" in producing lawsuits against the judge. These strategies include not only the use of judicial and administrative appeals, such as formal complaints to the Court of Justice of the State of Minas Gerais and to the National Justice Council, but also reports local media and the articulation with local politics. By activating various forms of bureaucratic control of the judicial organization, the subjects produced different meanings of their professional identity, in and beyond the bureaucratic dimension of the recognition of their demand, encompassing professional and political aspects. This has reinforced professional identities and hierarchies among the law professions.
Este artigo analisa as mobilizações profissionais articuladas por um grupo de advogados em um conflito com uma juíza. Nosso objetivo é compreender como os advogados mobilizaram o atributo da “coragem” como categoria nativa de identificação positiva de alguns profissionais na reivindicação por suas prerrogativas. Esta análise se situa entre os campos de estudo da sociologia do direito e da sociologia das profissões, na medida em que compreendemos as identidades e interações profissionais por meio das relações que os atores estabelecem entre si e com os textos normativos a partir de nossa cultura jurídica. Fizemos uma observação participante durante um conflito entre advogados e uma magistrada numa comarca do interior, tendo como interlocutores um grupo de advogados envolvidos na “briga com a juíza”. Dessa forma, com o trabalho de campo, concluímos que a questão da “coragem” para nossos interlocutores representa o risco em lidar com um poder judiciário arbitrário e que não produz previsibilidade.
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