Expert's Technical Responsibility Term — Court Expert Examinations

Version 2026-11-09-v1

1. Purpose

1.1. This Term governs the use of LawAgent's Court Expert Examinations module by the professional acting as an expert appointed by the court ("Expert").

1.2. Anyone who also acts as a party-appointed technical assistant accepts, for that role, the Technical Assistant's Technical Responsibility Term. Each term applies only to the role it refers to.

1.3. This Term is part of the LawAgent Terms of Service and does not replace the Lawyer's Professional Responsibility Term, which remains required for any act reserved to the legal profession.

2. Nature of the tool

2.1. LawAgent organizes the case file, records questions, diligences, deadlines and versions, and may propose supporting text. LawAgent does not perform examinations, inspections or conclusive expert calculations, nor does it issue technical opinions.

2.2. All content proposed by the tool is a working draft. The technical conclusion belongs exclusively to the Expert who signs the report.

2.3. The text proposed by the tool uses the material in the case file and does not consult external research sources. In an examination in which they act as the court's expert, the Expert does not have the legal chat or the party-strategy functions.

3. Technical qualification

3.1. Use of the technical functions requires a registered qualification (enrollment with a professional council, or proof of training and experience) that has been checked by the organization's administrator or by the LawAgent team, limited to the authorized sub-areas and to the recorded validity. No one checks their own qualification.

3.2. Technical qualification does not confer legal capacity, and enrollment with the Brazilian Bar (OAB) does not confer technical qualification.

3.3. The Expert's technical functions are available only after this Term is accepted. When LawAgent publishes a version that requires renewed acceptance, it will state the deadline for accepting it: until that date, the previously accepted version remains valid; after it, the Expert's technical functions are suspended until the new version is accepted. The deadline may coincide with publication, in which case the suspension is immediate.

4. Declarations of the Expert

By accepting this Term, the Expert declares that:

a) the qualification information is true, belongs to them and is current;

b) they will immediately inform the organization's administrator of any suspension, cancellation or restriction of their professional registration;

c) they will carry out the appointment scrupulously, within the period set by the court (arts. 157 and 466 of the Brazilian Code of Civil Procedure); they will present any excuse or declare any impediment or ground for bias within the legal period (arts. 148, II, 157, § 1, and 467); they are responsible for the information they provide (art. 158); and they will ensure that the parties' technical assistants have access to and may follow the diligences and examinations they carry out, with prior notice (art. 466, § 2);

d) they will not record as performed any examination, inspection or diligence they did not perform;

e) their account is personal and non-transferable, and they will not allow anyone else to use the technical functions on their behalf.

5. Review and responsibility

5.1. The Expert reads and fully reviews each version before approving it. Approval applies to that exact version and its attachments; any change requires a new review.

5.2. The report meets the content required by art. 473 of the Brazilian Code of Civil Procedure and does not exceed the limits of the appointment or express personal opinions beyond the technical examination (art. 473, § 2).

5.3. Signing and filing of the report take place outside LawAgent and belong to the Expert, who records the corresponding evidence in the system.

6. Fees

6.1. The Expert's fees are proposed by the Expert and set by the court, which also decides who advances them and when they are paid (arts. 95 and 465, §§ 2 to 5, of the Brazilian Code of Civil Procedure), subject to the rules applicable to free legal aid. In the Labor Courts, art. 790-B of the Brazilian Consolidation of Labor Laws applies, including the prohibition on requiring an advance on expert fees (§ 3).

6.2. LawAgent calculates the proposal from the items the Expert enters and records the fee award, deposit, withdrawal, reduction and reimbursement. These records organize the Expert's work and do not replace the court's decision or the statement of the court account; the Expert checks each amount before using it.

6.3. LawAgent does not charge, receive, withhold, intermediate or pass on expert fees and does not share in them. Use of LawAgent is paid for under the Terms of Service and the Pricing and Credits Policy, regardless of the amount of the fees or the outcome of the examination.

7. Personal data and confidentiality

7.1. The case file may contain sensitive personal data (art. 11 of Law No. 13,709/2018). The Expert processes such data only for the appointment, confirms the sensitive categories detected and does not take them outside the case file beyond what is necessary.

7.2. The Expert does not access a party's strategy and accesses only the files of the examinations in which they participate.

7.3. The data of each examination follows the retention and deletion policy described in the LawAgent manual: the period runs from the closing of the examination, deletion is notified in advance to the participants, and a preservation obligation suspends it.

8. Records

8.1. Acceptance, the version of this Term, qualifications, reviews and the signing and filing milestones are recorded in an immutable trail.

8.2. These records serve the organization's internal audit, proof of technical review and compliance with requests from competent authorities.

9. Term

9.1. This Term is effective upon acceptance and remains valid for as long as the Expert uses the technical functions of the Court Expert Examinations module, subject to clause 10.

10. Versions, governing law and venue

10.1. LawAgent may publish new versions of this Term.

10.2. When the change affects its content, the Expert will be asked to accept the new version, within the period described in clause 3.3, in order to keep using the technical functions.

10.3. The governing law and venue set out in the LawAgent Terms of Service apply to this Term.