Professional experience

Flavio Portinho Sirangelo began his professional career as a corporate lawyer in Porto Alegre from 1977 to 1987, mainly by counseling companies in labor law related cases. In 1985, he became a federal attorney in the Federal Attorney’s Office for Labor Relations (Ministério Público do Trabalho), after approval through a public selection process.

From 1987, he sat as Appellate Judge in the Federal Labor Court of Appeals (Porto Alegre, Brazil) for nearly 28 years, until retirement in August 2015.

He was the Court’s Chief Judge in the years 1998/1999. Judge Sirangelo was a co-founder and the first Director of the Court’s Judicial Training Center (2006/2010). He was also a Visiting Justice at the Brazilian Labor Supreme Court (“Tribunal Superior do Trabalho”), Brasília, in the years 2010/2012.

He was also a Member of the Brazilian National Judicial Conference (“Conselho Nacional de Justiça) in Brasilia in the years 2013/2015. After retirement in the judicial public service in August 2015, he resumed the law profession as an attorney and joined the offices of Souto Correa Advogados Associados in September/2016, where he works as a senior counsel.

 

Education

• • LL.B. Bachelor of Laws (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 1977);
• Fulbright Fellow – Hubert H. Humphrey Program – American University – Washington, DC, 2001/2002;
• Visiting Judicial Fellow – Federal Judicial Center. Washington, DC. 2002-2003;
• LL.M (Master of Laws) – American University, Washington College of Law. Washington, DC, 2003.

 

Publications

• “Judicial precedents in the United States” – translation.
  Author: TUSHNET, Mark; SIRANGELO, Flavio Portinho (translator), in Journal of Civil Procedure, RT Publishing, São Paulo, vol. 38, no. 218, pp. 99–110, April 2013.

   

• “Learning to Shape the Future: Brief Notes on the Path of Brazilian Courts Toward Modernization.”
  SIRANGELO, Flavio Portinho. In: Studies in Judicial Administration: Reflections of Judges on the Management of the Judiciary. Notebooks of the Judicial School of the Regional Labor Court of the 4th Region, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 7–16, Porto Alegre, HS Publishing, 2009. Bibliographic Record: 78923.

   

• “The Judicial School of the Regional Labor Court of the 4th Region: Foundations and Principles of Its Creation.”
  SIRANGELO, Flavio Portinho. Journal of the Regional Labor Court of the 4th Region, HS Publishing, Porto Alegre, no. 35, 2007.

   

• “Managing Appeals in Overloaded Courts: A Tale of Two Systems.”
  SIRANGELO, Flavio Portinho. Bibliographic Record: 76727. Location: M 340.5(73:81):347.956 S619m 2002. Library of the Regional Labor Court of the 4th Region.

   

• “Perspectives of Judicial Performance in Brazil: A Study and Suggestions for Institutional Improvement.”
  Washington, DC: [n.p.], 2002. 29 p. (Perspectives on Judicial Performance in Brazil: Study and Suggestions for Institutional Improvement – American University, Washington, May 2002).
  SIRANGELO, Flavio Portinho. Bibliographic Record: 76728. Location: M 347.97.001.7(81) S619p 2002. Library of the Regional Labor Court of the 4th Region.

   

• “The Selection Process for U.S. Judges: Reconciling Politics and Judicial Effectiveness.”
  SIRANGELO, Flavio Portinho. Bibliographic Record: 76729. Location: M 347.962.2(73) S619s 2002. Library of the Regional Labor Court of the 4th Region.

   

• “Labor Law and the Crisis of the ‘Standard Employment’ Model: Making the Case for Re-regulation.”
  SIRANGELO, Flavio Portinho. Bibliographic Record: 76730. Location: M 347.97.001.7(81) S619p 2002. Library of the Regional Labor Court of the 4th Region.

   

• “The Role of the Justice Sector in the Realization of Social and Economic Rights.”
  SIRANGELO, Flavio Portinho. Washington, DC: [n.p.], 2002. 14 p. Bibliographic Record: 76732. Location: M 342.734:347.99 S619r 2002. Library of the Regional Labor Court of the 4th Region.

 

Atividades Adicionais

• Career member (through public examination) of the Public Ministry of Labor (took office in March 1985);
• Legal Advisor to the Minister of Justice, Brasília (1986–1987);
• Appellate Judge of the Regional Labor Court of the 4th Region, from September 4, 1987 to August 28, 2015;
• Vice President and President of the Regional Labor Court of the 4th Region, respectively, in the 1996/1997 and 1998/1999 terms;
• Acting Justice (by designation) at the Superior Labor Court (TST), Brasília, from February 2010 to March 2011 and from February 2012 to June 2012;
• Member of examination boards for the selection of Substitute Labor Judges of the 4th Region – 1990, 1991, 1995, and 1997;
• Fulbright Foundation scholar at American University, Washington, DC, USA (2001–2002);
• Member of the AMB (Brazilian Judges Association) Commission for Judicial Effectiveness, Brasília (2004);
• Co-organizer and speaker at the AMB Judicial Administration Forum, Brasília (2004);
• Founder and first Director of the Judicial School of the Regional Labor Court of the 4th Region (TRT-RS) (2006–2010);
• Instructor of the course “Judicial Administration” at ENAMAT (National School for the Training and Improvement of Labor Judges), at the Superior Labor Court, Brasília (2007 and 2009–2013);
• Member of the National Council of Justice (CNJ), Brasília-DF;
• President of the Standing Committee on Jurisprudence of the National Council of Justice, Brasília-DF;
• Member of the Standing Committee on Operational Efficiency and Human Resources Management of the National Council of Justice, Brasília-DF;
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Brazil/United States Judicial Studies Program – American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, DC, USA;
• Professor of Labor Law at the Law School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) (1988–1989).