Gilmar Hernandes
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he Legal Practice Center of the Don Bosco Catholic University has been operating for more than 45 years, serving the low income population or without the condition of hiring a lawyer to promote defense free of charge, in civil and criminal cases, and since the second half of this year , was reinforced with the inauguration of the Judicial Center for Conflict Resolution and Citizenship (Cejusc), which aims to bring speed in conciliation cases. “It seeks from care to criminal matters, such as the promotion of the defense and monitoring of execution of the sentence, to civil matters such as inventories, sharing of assets, alimony, among others”, explains Nuprajur coordinator, Professor Elaine Cler. She also emphasized that the Nucleus is an opportunity for students to learn from legal practice, to know the procedures, procedures and exercise the theory learned in the classroom. “For the community, it is a powerful instrument for the promotion and defense of individual rights and guarantees”. Currently, more than three thousand cases in the civil and criminal area are in progress, and about 500 students are di-
Estudantes de Direito vivenciam na prática a rotina de um advogado, com a supervisão de professores
vided into classes of civil procedural practice, criminal procedural practice, and supervised civil and criminal stages. “The practice classes count on average with 30 students, and is the first stage of the academic in Nuprajur. He will learn to petition and identify the appropriate pieces in each case; already in the trainees, we have an average of ten students per professor”, explains the coordinator. The students follow the processes in progress, guide and assist juridically those who seek the Nucleus of Legal Practice for attendance. The activities range from simple procedural consultations to consulting and preparation of complete pieces for the submission of applications to the judge. “It is an opportunity to know all the stages that permeate the process in practice, the functioning of the judiciary, the importance of constant observation of deadlines, the work of reflection and legal interpretation for the construction of an argument that is valid for the defense of its client, that is, all the benefits that the prac-
tice brings as a way to fix and develop the theory learned with teachers in the classroom, “says Elaine Cler. Anyone who talks today with lawyer Danilo Graça da Cruz, cannot imagine the effort and dedication he made when he left the interior of the state and get here. Always solicitous and well off with his life, Danilo said that he entered in 1994 to work as an office boy in the Nuprajur UCDB, leaving his old job, where he worked the same job, seeing a condition of studying and growing professionally. And fate showed this, five years later the change began in his life, was transferred to the administrative sector, being responsible for the registry of the Nuprajur. During this period, he started his studies, took the compulsory internship, being the first in the family to earn a degree, specifically in Law (2009). In July last year he saw again that it was worth all the effort as he was hired by the UCDB as a lawyer to work part-time in Nuprajur and in August of this year he had the contract extended
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