A specialist and enthusiast of technology applied to law, the Justice of the Court of Justice of the State of Pernambuco (TJPE) Alexandre Freire Pimentel achieved an unprecedented feat on September 17th: he brought the backlog of cases in his office to zero in just one year. To achieve this, the magistrate relied on two tools: the hard work of his staff and artificial intelligence.
For the past year, Pimentel has been using generative artificial intelligence (IAGen) to help judge cases. The tool searches for case law, prepares its own drafts of the report, vote, summary and judgment, as well as automatically filling in the case data, such as headings, names of the parties, lawyers, rapporteur, etc.
All the work is overseen by a server and completed only after careful reading by the Justice himself. Pimentel is a member of the Special Court and sits on the 1st Panel of the 1st Regional Chamber of the city of Caruaru.
On the 17th, after receiving the news that no more cases were pending, the Justice received a beautiful message from his team, made up of Ana Clara Nascimento, Andrea Oliveira, Débora Luna, Diego Aguirres, Francisco Guedes, Geny Barnabé Monteiro, Guilherme Carvalheira, Hugo Amorim, Jessé Oliveira, Juliana Casimiro, Luiz Henrique, Mardilza Alencar, Mariana Araújo and Monica Simões. “(We would)... like to register and acknowledge that we doubted for a long time that we would achieve the goal you set. At times we were a little stressed, but not too much, because the way you treated us and monitored us was always very courteous (...) This was fundamental, because you gave us the perception that what was charged and monitored was the result of your certainty that we were capable of doing it.”
Justice Alexandre Pimentel holds a master's degree (1997) and a doctorate (2003) in law from the Law School of the city of Recife (FDR-UFPE), and a post-doctorate from the University of Salamanca. He is a Professor on the Law course and the post-graduate course in Law at the Catholic University of the State of Pernambuco (UNICAP). His field of research covers the use of artificial intelligence and technology.
