What Brazil Can Teach Us About The Future of Law with Marcelo Moura

In this episode, I'm talking with Marcelo Moura, a dual-qualified associate in Mishcon de Reya’s Commercial Litigation team, co-founder of AI2L, and UK Ambassador of the Brazilian Legal Tech Association (AB2L). He has worked in law since 2005 and has been involved in AI, innovation, and legal-tech initiatives since 2017. We compare Brazil’s high-volume, increasingly digitised courts with the UK’s legal system and explore how different rules shape legal technology. Marcelo also shares why he once feared AI would replace lawyers, how to use LLMs without outsourcing human judgment, and what thoughtful AI adoption means for law firms, lawyers, and students. Chapters 00:00 Meet Marcelo Moura and explore Brazil’s legal-tech story 02:42 Why Marcelo calls Brazil “the largest legal-tech laboratory in the world” 05:15 The Newsletter 05:32 Paperless courts and how legal systems shape legal technology 08:26 Brazil’s legal-tech market: predictive analytics and online dispute resolution 14:06 The risks of automating court filings and the limits of court efficiency 16:05 Why so many Brazilian consumer disputes become individual cases 19:44 Brazil’s legal market and untapped business potential 21:40 Why legal-tech markets should learn from each other 28:13 Automation and the value of bespoke legal work 33:17 How fear of AI shaped Marcelo’s career and led him to speak up 36:06 How AI became part of everyday legal practice 37:26 Will AI mean fewer lawyers, and how can lawyers prepare? 40:18 AI in legal education and the value of learning by doing 42:21 What a law firm’s AI strategy needs to consider \--- Each week I take what I'm hearing in conversations with legal leaders. I analyze the market and track emerging trends in this AI era. In my newsletter called The Future Lawyer Market Intel for the AI era I'm focused on: What AI is exposing The opportunities The blind spots And the shifts shaping the next five years. This is how you see the chessboard before everyone else does: https://hollycope.my.canva.site/thefuturelawyer * * * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.