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Legal information retrieval in Portuguese remains difficult to evaluate systematically because available datasets differ widely in document type, query style, and relevance definition. We present JUÁ, a public benchmark for Brazilian legal retrieval designed to support more reproducible and comparable evaluation across heterogeneous legal collections. More broadly, JUÁ is intended not only as a benchmark, but as a continuous evaluation infrastructure for Brazilian legal IR, combining shared protocols, common ranking metrics, fixed splits when applicable, and a public leaderboard. The benchmark covers jurisprudence retrieval as well as broader legislative, regulatory, and question-driven legal search. We evaluate lexical, dense, and BM25-based reranking pipelines, including a domain-adapted Qwen embedding model fine-tuned on JUÁ-aligned supervision. Results show that the benchmark is sufficiently heterogeneous to distinguish retrieval paradigms and reveal substantial cross-dataset trade-offs. Domain adaptation yields its clearest gains on the supervision-aligned JUÁ-Juris subset, while BM25 remains highly competitive on other collections, especially in settings with strong lexical and institutional phrasing cues. Overall, JUÁ provides a practical evaluation framework for studying legal retrieval across multiple Brazilian legal domains under a common benchmark design.