This article aims at discussing the relations between lawyers and politics, in general, and between lawyers and the state, in particular. It will do so by analyzing empirical evidences about Brazilian legal elites, and by applying the concept of field of power. It will also be analyzed data about the action of lawyers and politicians during the 2004 Judicial Reform, as an empirical reference to understand the interaction between those actors in an institutional political process. The analysis of individual trajectories will complete the prosopography of lawyers in order to show the relations between law and politics. As a conclusion, the article will argue the continuity of the structural relations between law and politics, recently characterized by movements and replacements due to the rising of political and legal expertises, and to the progressive and relative of the legal field.197213250