What is Procedural deadline (prazo processual)?

A procedural deadline is the time available to perform an act. Since the 2017 Labor Reform, deadlines are counted in business days (art. 775 of the CLT), starting from service of notice. Once the deadline lapses without the act, preclusion operates: the chance to perform it is lost — an untimely appeal is simply not heard.

It is the greatest operational risk in litigation: most avoidable losses come from a deadline that went unnoticed, not from a weak argument. Hence the importance of computing the count precisely, accounting for holidays and the form of notice.

How LABORIS AI uses it

LABORIS AI turns each notice into a deadline with a computed due date, classifies the confidence of that computation, and surfaces the deadlines coming due — so no procedural window is lost to oversight.