What is Statement of defense (contestação)?

A statement of defense is the pleading in which the defendant company answers. Under the principle of concentration (art. 336 of the CPC), it must gather all defensive matter — preliminary objections and merits — challenging each claim specifically, on pain of the uncontested facts being presumed true.

The strength of a defense lies less in rhetoric and more in the documentary evidence that accompanies it: time records, payslips, termination forms, collective agreements. It is the cross-check between the claim and that record that decides most awards.

How LABORIS AI uses it

LABORIS AI confronts each claim with the company’s evidence — time records, payroll and termination documents — and estimates the defensibility of each item before the hearing, showing where the defense has support and where it is wiser to provision.