President Jair Bolsonaro signed today (3) the bill that updates the Lawyer Statute, a rule that defines the rights and duties of lawyers working in the country. 
According to the secretary-general of the Presidency of the Republic, the sanction seeks to improve the performance of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) and preserve the prerogatives of professionals.
In the opinion of the OAB, the new law brings at least ten new achievements for law professionals, among them, the permission for services to be provided verbally or in writing, regardless of mandate or contract formalization, payment guarantee of fees in accordance with the Code of Civil Procedure and the exclusive competence of the Order to inspect professional practice and the receipt of fees.
The update of the statute also prevents lawyers from signing plea bargain agreements against their clients and provides for vacations for criminalists through the suspension of criminal procedural deadlines between December 20 and January 20 of each year.
However, Bolsonaro vetoed part of the bill that gave an OAB representative the right to prevent evidence unrelated to the investigation from being taken from a law firm while carrying out search and seizure measures.
“By allowing, however, the representative of the OAB to prevent the seizure of documents unrelated to the investigated fact, the rule, in addition to authorizing such agents to interfere in a function that is constitutionally assigned to the judicial police, would end up compromising the success of the investigation. investigation, which, as seen, has as its main objective the collection of informative elements”, says the text that justified the veto.
