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2007; Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Escola de Direito; Volume: 3; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

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Luciana Gross Cunha, Maria da Glória Bonelli, Fabiana Luci de Oliveira, Maria Natália Barboza da Silveira,

Corporate Insolvency and Governance

THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS THE RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT ENTITLED “LAW FIRMS AND THEIR EMPLOYMENT AND MARKET TENDENCIES” DEVELOPED IN 2005/2006 BY GVLAW IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DIREITO GV. THE GOAL OF THIS RESEARCH WAS TO IDENTIFY THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LAWYERS CURRENTLY WORKING IN SAO PAULO LAW FIRMS, AS WELL AS THEIR CAREER PATHS AND THE EMERGING TENDENCIES WITHIN THEIR LEGAL PRACTICES. TO GATHER THIS DATA A SURVEY WAS MADE OF 239 SAO PAULO LAWYERS. THE RESPONDENTS WERE CHOSEN BY A STATISTICAL SAMPLING WHICH CONSIDERED THE SIZE OF THEIR LAW FIRMS, THEIR GENDER, AND THEIR CARRIER LEVEL. AMONG THE VARIETY OF FINDINGS DISCOVERED THROUGH THIS SURVEY WERE: (I) AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF MEDIUM SIZE LAW FIRMS IN A MARKET THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY DOMINATED BY SMALL FIRMS; (II) LEGAL CARRIERS WITHIN MOST LAW FIRMS ARE NOW CLEARLY DEFINED BY THREE DISTINCT LEVELS: JUNIOR, SENIOR AND PARTNER.