Advogados “corajosos”: Uma análise da produção de identidade(s) nos conflitos intraprofissionais numa comarca do interior

Abstract

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.