Associação Brasileira de Jurimetria

What Associação Brasileira de Jurimetria does

Associação Brasileira de Jurimetria (ABJ) is a São Paulo-based, non-profit civil association founded in 2011 (originating from empirical legal research projects at IME-USP and PUC-SP beginning in 2009) that is the only organization in Brazil dedicated exclusively to jurimetrics — the empirical, statistical study of legal phenomena. ABJ collects and analyzes large-scale data from Brazilian courts and tribunals to produce research, dashboards, and policy advice on topics including insolvency, arbitration, capital markets, judicial productivity, and corporate law. Its primary clients are Brazilian government bodies and regulators (notably CNJ, CVM, CARF, CNI, Senado Federal, and Ministério da Justiça) plus multilateral organizations (BID, IMF), with law firms and individual legal professionals participating as members and sponsors.

The organization's core products are its Observatories — empirical, regularly updated data products built on longitudinal court datasets and delivered through Shiny dashboards — together with commissioned research studies, online courses (Jurimetria: da Teoria à Prática, R para jurimetria), the Metodologia de Pesquisa Jurimétrica book, and a set of open-source R packages (abjData, abjutils, tjsp) that codify its data pipelines for the broader community. Technical work spans natural language processing of legal opinions, survival analysis of case duration, regression modeling of judicial outcomes, and process automation using R and Python.

ABJ's revenue model is a hybrid of (1) tiered individual and corporate memberships (Student R$525, Professional R$1,050, Legaltech R$3,360, Enterprise R$6,720 annually), (2) commissioned research contracts with government and multilateral clients, and (3) institutional sponsorships from large law firms that fund specific observatories. The organization employs approximately 21 staff, including data scientists and researchers, and is governed by a 9-member Scientific Council drawn from USP, PUC-SP, FGV, and UFPR. ABJ does not publicly disclose revenue or financial results.

Name

Associação Brasileira de Jurimetria

Legal name

Associação Brasileira de Jurimetria

Website

https://abj.org.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Associação Brasileira de Jurimetria is a São Paulo-based non-profit founded in 2011 that conducts empirical, data-driven research on the Brazilian legal system, serving government regulators, courts, multilateral organizations, law firms, and legal professionals through court-data observatories, commissioned studies, and open-source R tooling.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Research Services

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172), Legal Services (5411)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAHALAI

Due Diligence & Investigative Research

Business & Public Services/Professional Services (Legal, Accounting, Consulting)/Research, Analytics & Expert Services

SECONDARYEDAGAFAG

Law & Legal Studies Scholarly Publishing

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Academic & Scholarly Publishing (Journals, Monographs)

SECONDARYEDAAALAB

Legal & Compliance (CLE, Paralegal CE)

Education/Adult & Continuing Education/Professional Licensure & Continuing Professional Education (CE/CPE)

SECONDARYEDAGAGAB

Legal Reference (Statutes, Case Law, Practice Guides)

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Professional & Technical Reference Publishing

Keywords

• Empirical legal research
• Jurimetrics research
• Legal data analytics
• Court data analysis
• Statistical legal studies

Headquarters

HQ city

São Paulo

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Annual Membership Fees: ABJ generates revenue primarily through annual membership fees paid by individuals (students, professionals) and organizations (legaltechs, companies, law firms). Members receive access to the ABJ portal, exclusive content, discounts on courses and partner events, and the Café Jurimétrico series.
2. Institutional Support and Project Sponsorship: Companies, law firms, and institutions provide financial sponsorship for specific research projects (Observatórios) and institutional partnerships. Sponsors receive visibility at events, networking access, and membership benefits.
3. Commissioned Research and Studies: ABJ conducts contracted empirical studies for government bodies (CNJ, Senate, Ministry of Justice), regulatory agencies (CVM, CARF), and industry groups (CNI, FEBRABAN). These projects involve data collection, statistical analysis, and policy recommendations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

ABJ conducts empirical legal research (jurimetrics) in Brazil, producing continuous observatory projects (on insolvency, arbitration, capital markets, corporate law, and judicial productivity), commissioned research studies for government and regulatory bodies, educational courses, and an open-access methodology book. It also develops open-source R packages and interactive Shiny dashboards that make Brazilian court data accessible to researchers, legal professionals, and the public.

Product overview

Associação Brasileira de Jurimetria operates as a non-profit research institution offering a portfolio of jurimetric research products and services. The core offering consists of Observatórios (continuous monitoring projects on insolvency, arbitration, capital markets, and corporate law), Pesquisas (ad-hoc empirical studies on legal topics), and an educational platform including courses and an open-access methodology book. Supporting platforms include the member-only Portal da ABJ dashboard, the academic blog (Laboratório de Jurimetria), and open-source R packages (esaj, dje, abjutils, decryptr) for data access and analysis. Events include the Café Jurimétrico series and webinars for members. The Boletim da ABJ provides interactive TJSP jurisprudence data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Café Jurimétrico: Exclusive online event series for ABJ members featuring discussions on jurimetrics topics
• Laboratório de Jurimetria
• Observatórios ABJ

Products and services

• Observatórios ABJ Continuous monitoring research projects covering insolvency (Falências e Recuperações Judiciais across São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Mato Grosso), arbitration, capital markets (CVM sanctioning proceedings), corporate law, and judicial productivity. Produces publicly available reports and interactive dashboards, often co-developed with institutional partners and sponsored by law firms.
• Pesquisas ABJ (Commissioned Research Studies) Empirical legal research studies contracted by government bodies (CNJ, Senado Federal, Ministério da Justiça), regulatory agencies (CVM, CARF), and industry associations (CNI, FEBRABAN, BID). Each study involves data collection, statistical analysis, and policy recommendations on topics including tax litigation, criminal justice, health judicialization, consumer litigation, and drug policy.
• Cursos de Jurimetria Educational courses covering introductory and advanced jurimetric research methodology, and specialized corporate jurimetrics for legal professionals and legal departments. Delivered through partner platforms and providing structured curriculum on empirical legal research.
• Metodologia de Pesquisa Jurimétrica (Methodology Book) Open-access online book on jurimetric research methodology covering research planning, statistics, visualization, and modeling. Written by ABJ researchers and intended for law students, researchers, and practitioners learning empirical legal research methods. Published via Quarto with reproducible R code.
• ABJ Open-Source R Packages Open-source computational R packages (dje, esaj, decryptr, abjutils, abjData, abjMaps, prodTJSP) for scraping Brazilian court data, processing legal data, working with process numbers, breaking CAPTCHAs, and conducting jurimetric analysis. Available on GitHub for the research and data science community.
• ABJ Membership (Portal da ABJ) Annual association membership providing access to the ABJ member portal with research databases, data packages, dashboards, exclusive content, Boletim Eletrônico newsletter, Café Jurimétrico events, blog publishing rights, and discounts on courses and partner events. Available in Student (R$525), Professional (R$1,050), Legaltech (R$3,360), and Enterprise (R$6,720) tiers.

Quantifiable outcome

• ABJ's research on adoption processes influenced Lei 13.509/2017 (Brazil's adoption reform law), directly impacting national child welfare policy
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Instituto de Segurança Pública (ISP) de São PaulominorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019ABJ accessed the Digital Occurrence Records (RDO) database from SSP-SP for its drug criteria study, analyzing 656,408 occurrences and 2.6 million+ individuals involved in drug-related cases from 2002-2017.
• Conselho Nacional de Justiça (CNJ)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2015CNJ commissioned ABJ to conduct research on adoption processes in Brazil. The resulting empirical study influenced Lei 13.509/2017 (adoption reform). ABJ also worked with CNJ on homicide processing studies via the ENASP program.
• Confederação Nacional da Indústria (CNI)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014CNI co-funded the CARF statistical analysis study alongside CARF itself, providing resources for ABJ to analyze over 180,000 tax administrative decisions, producing the first deep empirical study of Brazil's tax appeals body.
• Centro de Integração Empresa-Escola (CIEE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerABJ partnered with CIEE and IASP to create the Digital Observatory of Judicial Litigation in Brazil (Observatório Digital de Litígios Judiciais no Brasil), providing data on court productivity, litigation rates, and access to justice across Brazil using CNJ monthly productivity modules.
• Instituto dos Advogados de São Paulo (IASP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIASP co-developed the Digital Observatory of Judicial Litigation in Brazil alongside ABJ and CIEE, contributing legal sector expertise and serving as a venue partner for in-person events such as the Café Jurimétrico.
• Núcleo de Estudos de Processos de Insolvência (NEPI) da PUC-SPcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNEPI at PUC-SP partnered with ABJ to initiate the Insolvency Observatory project in 2017, contributing academic research infrastructure and expertise in bankruptcy and corporate restructuring law to support data collection and analysis.
• Associação Brasileira das Companhias Abertas (Abrasca)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAbrasca co-founded the Capital Markets Observatory with ABJ, contributing industry access and funding for empirical research on CVM administrative sanctioning proceedings and capital market regulation.
• Comitê Brasileiro de Arbitragem (CBAr)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCBAr partnered with ABJ to create the Arbitration Observatory, conducting empirical analysis of court cases involving arbitration including annulment proceedings, enforcement, and institutional arbitration establishment.
• Instituto de Matemática e Estatística da Universidade de São Paulo (IME-USP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerABJ originated from researchers at IME-USP and PUC-SP in 2009. IME-USP remains a core intellectual partner, with Julio Trecenti pursuing his PhD there and ABJ drawing on USP's statistics and computer science faculty.
• Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPUC-SP is a founding academic partner of ABJ. Marcelo Guedes Nunes is a professor at PUC-SP's Law School. The university hosts NEPI ( Núcleo de Estudos de Processos de Insolvência) which co-developed the Insolvency Observatory. The Corporate Observatory is also developed in partnership with PUC-SP.
• Senado FederalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerABJ provided empirical research support to Senate Federal committees working on the new Commercial Code and Civil Procedure Code reforms, contributing data-driven analysis on business law indicators and judicial statistics.
• Ministério da JustiçaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerABJ collaborated with the Ministry of Justice on criminal justice research, including homicide processing studies conducted under the ENASP (Estratégia Nacional de Justiça e Segurança Pública) program.
• Fundo Monetário Internacional (FMI)minorOthersABJ contributed analysis to the Doing Business study on contract enforcement in Brazil conducted by the World Bank Group, providing empirical data on Brazilian court processing times and costs.
• Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCVM partnered with ABJ for the Capital Markets Observatory project, providing institutional access to administrative sanctioning proceeding data and collaborating on empirical analysis of regulatory enforcement in Brazil's securities market.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• JusBrasil: JusBrasil is Brazil's largest legal information aggregator, providing searchable access to jurisprudence, legislation, and court decisions across Brazilian tribunals. It overlaps with ABJ in serving legal professionals and competing for visibility on court-data analytics, though its model is broader and consumer-facing.
• Lex Machina: Lex Machina provides empirical legal analytics for litigation, using court data to produce metrics on judges, parties, and case outcomes. It is the closest international functional analog to ABJ's observatory methodology and serves a similar "data-driven litigation intelligence" use case.
• JOTA (Jornalismo Legal): JOTA is a Brazilian legal intelligence and journalism platform covering court decisions, regulatory changes, and public policy. It serves overlapping audiences (lawyers, government, legaltechs) and offers subscription-based access to legal analysis, comparable to ABJ's member portal and dashboards.

Emerging players

• CEBEPE (Centro Brasileiro de Estudos Empíricos): CEBEPE is a Brazilian empirical legal research center with overlapping academic focus on quantitative law studies. It intersects with ABJ's research methodology but operates at smaller scale and with a different institutional model.
• Opice Blum Academy: Opice Blum is a leading Brazilian legaltech and law firm investing in data-driven legal services and education. It intersects with ABJ's audience in the legaltech segment and represents the type of commercial entrant that could commoditize parts of ABJ's value proposition.

Broad incumbents

• LexisNexis Brasil / Lexis 360: LexisNexis operates a major Brazilian legal research platform (Lexis 360) serving law firms and corporate legal departments with jurisprudence, doctrine, and analytics. It is a broad incumbent offering overlapping content distribution capabilities but not specializing in empirical/jurimetric research.
• Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory (Brazil): Wolters Kluwer operates legal information platforms globally and in Brazil, including jurisprudence and compliance analytics. It is a broad incumbent that overlaps with ABJ in serving legal professionals but does not specialize in empirical research.

Others

• Stanford Law — Center for Empirical Legal Research: Stanford's Center for Empirical Legal Research is a leading academic institution advancing the same interdisciplinary methodology (law + statistics) that ABJ embodies. It is comparable as a methodology authority and thought leadership peer, though operating in an academic rather than association model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• GitHubgithub.com/abjur
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCMJk85oU4NSvPufXtQnMCKQ
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/jurimetria

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Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

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