Portuguese Bar Association

Public association

For the orders of attorneys of other Portuguese speaking countries, see Ordem dos Advogados (disambiguation).

Portuguese Bar Association

Founded| 12 June 1926; 99 years ago (1926-06-12)
Type| Bar association

Region served

| Portugal
Website| https://portal.oa.pt

The Order of Attorneys of Portugal (Portuguese: Ordem dos Advogados), also known as the Portuguese Bar Association, is the public association to which all attorneys-at-law belong in Portugal, founded in 1926. Its early origins are found on a private association founded in 1838 by a group of lawyers from Lisbon.

Graduates in law from university who wish to act on behalf of clients before a court of law must register at the Portuguese Bar Association. Only those who are duly registered can provide legal consultation and appear before the court. Other graduates in law may choose other jobs, which do not demand registration at the bar association.

Being a public association, it is independent from the government, but it has some public powers, which include disciplinary action over its members. Its decisions are subject to judicial impeachment. In Portuguese law, an attorney-at-law is known as advogado. His job equals that of both solicitors and barristers (although Portugal also has a separate profession of solicitor, or solicitador).

The internship for a Portuguese recently graduated Lawyer to become full member of the Bar, includes a complex week-long exam at first, three day long pre-exams on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday, then a usually unpaid, though sometimes paid, internship of eighteen months and finally, a last exam for a whole day. However, after this exam, the intern is also subject to an oral exam which is again, mandatory.[1]

## Presidents of the Portuguese Bar Association

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#  | Image  | Name  | Term  | Ref.

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1  |  | Vicente Rodrigues Monteiro | 1927–1929  |
2  |  | Fernando Martins de Carvalho | 1930–1932  |
3  |  | José Maria Barbosa de Magalhães | 1933–1935  |
11  |  | Adelino da Palma Carlos | 1951–1956  |
20  |  | Júlio Castro Caldas | 1993–1998  |
21  |  | António Pires de Lima  | 1999–2001  |
22  |  | José Miguel Júdice | 2002–2004  |
23  |  | Rogério Alves  | 2005–2007  |
24  |  | António Marinho e Pinto | 2008–2013  |
25  |  | Elina Fraga | 2014–2016  |
26  |  | Guilherme Figueiredo  | 2017–2019  |
27  |  | Luís Menezes Leitão | 2020–2022  |
28  |  | Fernanda de Almeida Pinheiro | 2023–2025  |
29  |  | João Massano | 2025–  |

## References

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1. ^ "Ordem dos Advogados". www.oa.pt. Archived from the original on 30 June 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2022.

## External links

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* Legal profession - Portugal, European Commission
* Portugal: Legal description, The American Bar website, Forster-Long, Inc.
* Ordem dos Advogados official website (in Portuguese)

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* United States
* Portugal

Other|

* IdRef