Direito Processual Civil
Core concepts
Although the CPC applies only subsidiarily to labor procedure (art. 769 CLT and IN 39 TST), the exam tests its general theory. Jurisdiction and competence; procedural acts and terms counted in business days (art. 219); communication; nullities and their principles; tutela provisoria; evidence (art. 369); the sentence and its chapters; res judicata (arts. 502 to 508) and precedents (IRDR and IAC, arts. 976 to 987).
Appeals: apelacao, agravo, embargos de declaracao, recurso adesivo and extraordinary appeals. Incidents: desconsideracao da personalidade juridica (arts. 133 to 137), incidente de resolucao de demandas repetitivas and inconstitucionalidade. Execution: cumprimento de sentenca, online penhora, and procedural agreements (art. 190).
Traps
A recurring trap is double term for litisconsortes with different attorneys (art. 229), which does not apply to electronic proceedings. Another: no recurso adesivo in embargos de declaracao. Res judicata covers the dispositivo, not the motives or the legal reasoning (art. 504). Precedents bind only in the hypotheses of art. 927.
Rule of thumb
Identify the procedural phase and then the applicable principle; instrumentalidade das formas does not excuse prejudice. Worked example: a petition with a wrong address is not inepita if the party can be located, so the judge orders amendment (art. 321).