The Brazilian Lawyers Association (ABA) is a civil and non-profit making organisation, established under the protection of the Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988 (art. 5º, line XVII) and the Civil Code (arts. 53, and following ones).

Its Statute has been duly registered according to Law and under the National Institutional Registar upon number 05.382.115/0001-01. Its Headquarters is located at “SRTWN Q. 701, Centro Empresarial Norte, Sala 629”, Brasilia, Federal District, the capital of Brazil.

The Association was founded on 11th August, 2002 with the objective of creating an institutional framework for cooperation among Lawyers in Brazil. In the first case, its services are put at the disposal of its associates on several types of services to be offered before the Superior Courts located at the Capital of the Federative Republic of Brazil, which means, within the Supreme Federal Court (STF), Superior Court of Justice (STJ), Labor Superior Court (TST), Military Superior Court (STM), Regional Federal Court (TRF) of the 1st Region, Federal District and Territories Court of Justice (TJDFT), as well as before the Administrative Courts, such as the Contributors Council, Economic Law Defense Council (CADE) and other federal organizations located in the Federal District.

Regarding institutional matters, the Brazilian Lawyers Association (ABA) will preserve and uphold the Federal Constitution, the citizen, human rights, social justice, work against the slowness in the dispensation of Justice, focusing on the proper application of the laws and quick administration of Judicial System.

The Brazilian Lawyers Association (ABA) has no similarity or conflict with the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), since the latter one has its mission defined in the Brazilian Federal Constitution and under the Law no. 8,906/94. Only OAB can, for instance, performing the act of selection of lawyers and probationers as well as initiate inspection on the professional activity of Advocacy. Also it’s the only competent entity for processing and discipline of lawyers who break the rules of Professional Ethics/ Code, while ABA has the goal of assisting its associates. Furthermore, ABA has no similarity to any syndicate or to any Lawyer’s Institute. ABA has the specific task of representing its associate’s interests in the employees party of the labor relation. OAB, historically, created by D. Pedro II, in 1843, had the incumbency of creating the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) and today it is exclusively dedicated to the study of the Judicial Sciences.



BOARD OF DIRECTOR


The Board of Director of the Brazilian Lawyers Association (ABA) is composed of one (1) President, six (6) Vice-Presidents, one (1) General-Secretary, one (1) Deputy Secretary-General and one (1) Treasurer, whose duties are specified in the Statutes of the Association.


Esdras Dantas de Souza ( Federal District – DF)
Director President

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· The President has been practicing as a lawyer in the city of Brasilia since 1979;
· He has a post graduate degree in Municipal Law and Civil Procedures;
· He has served as the President of the Brazilian Bar Association/ Section Federal District (OAB/DF) previously for 2 (two) terms;
· He has also served as a Brazilian Bar Association Federal Counselor for three terms;
· He was also the President of 3rd Chamber of the Federal Council and Director-Treasurer of the National Brazilian Bar Association at different times;
· Similarly, the President was a Judge of the Regional Electoral Court of the Federal District between 1995 and 1999;
· Currently, he is a Professor of Civil Law and Civil Procedures, Brazilian Advocacy Statutes as well as in the Brazilian Bar Association Statutes. He lectures at UPIS College, Federal District, with an experience of more than 20 (twenty) years in various Brazilian Universities.


Hugo Wolovikis Braga (Federal District – DF)
Director Administrative Vice-Presiedent

João Maria de Oliveira Souza (State of Amazonas – AM)
Director Vice-Presiente/ North Region

Márcio Fortes de Barros (State of Sanca Catarina – SC)
Director Vice-President/ South Region

Luís Roberto Bacellete (Federal District – DF)
Director Vice-President/ Center-east Region

José Lino da Silva (Station of Rio Grande do Norte – RN)
Director Vice-President/ Northeast Region

Alper Tadeu Alves Pereira (State of Rio de Janeiro - RJ)
Director Vice-President/ Southeast Region

Beatriz Souza Costa (State of Minas Gerais - MG)
Director Secretary-General

Márcia Cristina Jonson (State of Paraná – PR)
Director Deputy Secretary-General

Virgínia Solino de morais (Federal District – DF)
Director-Treasurer



CONSULTIVE COUNCIL


Denerval Machado Rodrigues de Melo – President
President Lawyer’s Association of São José dos Campos (State of São Paulo – SP)

Manoel Alcides Nogueira de Sousa
President Lawyer’s Association of Grande ABC (State of São Paulo – SP)

Márcio Messias Cunha
President Lawyer’s Association of Goiás (State of Goiás – GO)

Nelson Mitiharu Koga
President Lawyer’s Association of Guarulhos (State of São Paulo – SP)

Luiz Dias da Silveira Junior
President Lawyer’s Association of Jundiaí (State of São Paulo – SP)

André Luiz Marques
President Lawyer’s Association of Pinheiros (State of São Paulo – SP)

Jaime Soldateli
President Lawyer’s Association of Pirassununga (State of São Paulo – SP)


STATE DIRECTORS

- Marcelo Di Rezende Bernardes (State of Goias – GO)
Director of Brazilian Lawyer’s Association – ABA , in the State of Goiás
Rua 15, No. 1,688, Setor Marista, Goiânia, GO. Tel. (62) 241.0993 – marcelodirezende@cultura.com.br


- Saul Venâncio de Quadros Filho (State of Bahia – BA)
Director of Brazilian Lawyer’s Association – ABA , in the State of Bahia
Av. Tancredo Neves, 274, Bloco “B”, conj. 117/ 120 – Iguatemi – Salvador – BA
advsaul@uol.com.br – 71 – 450.6813

- Tihana Guimarães Pessoa
Director of Brazilian Lawyer’s Association – ABA , in the State of Paraná
Rua Alberto Folloni, 1134 – Juveve – Curibiba – PR
lyraadv@netpar.com.br – 41 – 352.9499