On the legal paths, we come across past winds that whisper to the operators of the law the rituals that place academic knowledge and legal practice on topographically distinct planes. Empirical knowledge reveals that the old idea of a weak connection between theory and practice still hovers in the daily atmosphere of lawyers: you learn one thing and do another, as if the exchange of impulses between the two wasn’t strong enough to see that the planes that provide a home for the knowledge we are dealing with here, which are apparently distinct, are deeply connected.
The unbridled reproduction of old habits limits not only the acquisition of new knowledge, but also the production of scientific knowledge itself, and the few firms that dare to challenge the new possibilities are subject to disillusionment and regression, especially as a result of the confrontation between the techniques applied to research and those explored in litigation or advisory work, since access to new knowledge and the production of science requires different exegetical and time efforts from those required by the usual forms of legal practice.
This does not mean, however, that there is a complete impossibility of communication between these different fields of activity. Law as an integrated science designs paths to bring together areas, subjects and techniques that are superficially seen as incompatible. Research with a well-defined scope paves the way for the proposal of innovative and responsible legal theses, for the sponsorship of studies and the direction of work that helps us to take our reality and look at it from other perspectives and, above all, to provide the best guidance for our clients’ business under the utmost responsibility, directing them, when the need arises, to other areas of the firm that are able to collaborate in the search for the best solution.
The year 2023 is upon us with new dreams, new challenges and new goals. The consolidation of the area of scientific research by PDK Advogados indicates the path towards innovation that has been traced since its beginnings, abandoning the acts repeated symptomatically by other legal models in honor of tradition. With the new opportunities offered to us by the times, we highlight the carrying out of scientific research for the market, the development of innovative legal theses, and the production of knowledge capable of resolving the clashes faced by the various social sectors in the most diverse areas of law.
We will not limit ourselves to reproducing the knowledge we have already mastered, but will sail together through the unknown towards the best and most feasible legal solutions for our clients, for the market and, without a doubt, for society itself.
