The judge signs. The first draft may already have an owner.
On 27 August 2026 Jusbrasil, the largest legal information platform in Brazil, bought MinutaIA, a young Brazilian company whose software writes first drafts of legal documents. Among its customers are courts: in several of them, when a judge's office starts work on a decision, the first version can now come from a tool owned by the same group that most Brazilian lawyers use to prepare their cases.
In the same months, in Italy, the chief executive of Lefebvre Giuffrè, one of the country's main legal publishers, explained to Corriere della Sera how his industry intends to live with artificial intelligence. His formula was "publisher plus AI": the machine speeds up the search, but the answer has to rest on sources that someone has checked, can trace and is willing to sign. Italian law, for its part, keeps AI away from the writing of judgments altogether.
The full analysis compares the two models, explains what exactly Jusbrasil bought and how Brazilian courts bought it before, why Italian judges themselves admit they are at a disadvantage, and what any European company that litigates, sells or buys in Brazil should take from the comparison.