Twelve lawyers, including former Supreme Court Justice Eros Grau, wrote short stories related to the practice of law.
Accustomed to the commitment of secrecy, to the tight deadlines of the courts and to hermetic language, so as not to leave room for double interpretation, lawyers find the literary text a challenge, says Pierre Moreau, organizer of 'The Letters of the Law'.
"The idea was that, through the short stories, they could pass on their professional experience. With nothing agreed, the texts were very different," says Moreau, who also wrote one of them.
The topics range from childcare to internet crime.
The authors also include Luís Francisco Carvalho Filho, Miguel Reale Júnior, José Gregori, Eduardo Muylaert and José Renato Nalini.
Eros Grau wrote about a judge who abstains from judging a case involving an old flame of his - a story, he says, that is completely fictitious.
"What we did [in the work] was literature, but what is happening today, in general, in Brazil, is certainly fantastic literature," he says.
The book (ed. Casa da Palavra) will be launched in São Paulo on the 28th.