Clearbrief
AI for legal-grade accuracy in Word, trusted by serious litigators.
Executive Summary
Clearbrief is an AI-powered legal writing and discovery analysis platform designed for litigators, in-house teams, and courts. It integrates directly with Microsoft Word and document repositories to verify factual assertions against underlying evidence, detect fake citations, and streamline the drafting process. The platform aims to improve accuracy, strengthen legal arguments, and significantly reduce the time spent on citation checking and evidence review, ultimately enhancing confidence in filings and internal quality control.
Use Cases
- Drafting and revising briefs, motions, and other court filings with verifiable citations.
- Conducting rapid trial preparation and evidence review by extracting key facts and generating timelines.
- Verifying the accuracy of factual assertions against underlying records and detecting fake citations.
- Generating perfectly formatted Tables of Authorities (TOAs) and exhibits for court filings.
- Analyzing opposing counsel's documents to identify factual weaknesses, hearsay, or inadmissible evidence.
- Creating hyperlinked PDFs of legal documents for easy sharing and court submission.
Features
Visibility
- Hyperlinked Citations: Provides clickable, verifiable citations directly within the Word document, linking to the exact source evidence or legal authority.
- Automated Timeline Generation: Instantly creates hyperlinked timelines of events from discovery documents, aiding in rapid case understanding and trial preparation.
- Deposition and Transcript Summaries: Automatically generates summaries of deposition or hearing transcripts, which can be in table or narrative form, with hyperlinked citations.
- Pleading Comparison: Generates a side-by-side table comparing claims in a demand with responsive text in an answering statement, facilitating review of party positions.
Intelligence
- AI-Powered Fact-Checking: Verifies every claim in a legal document against the underlying factual and legal evidence, ensuring accuracy and credibility.
- Fake Citation Detection: Identifies and flags fabricated or hallucinated legal citations by integrating with reputable legal research databases.
- Evidence Extraction and Assembly: Finds, extracts, and assembles key facts from massive document sets, supporting rapid trial preparation and investigation reports.
- Automated Cite Formatting: Automatically converts citations to the correct format (e.g., Bluebook), saving time and ensuring compliance with court rules.
- Opposing Counsel Brief Analysis: Scans opposing counsel's briefs to identify factual weaknesses, uncover hearsay, and find other inadmissible evidence.
Support
- Comprehensive User Guides: Provides detailed user guides to help legal professionals maximize their use of the platform's features.
- Training and Resources: Offers training and various resources, including a Columbia Law Course, to educate users on effective utilization.
- Responsive Customer Support: Known for extremely responsive and helpful customer support, ensuring users receive timely assistance.
Technical Specifications
- Architecture
- Cloud-native SaaS
- Deployment
- Cloud/SaaS
- Authentication
- SSO, MFA (implied by enterprise security)
- API Available
- Yes
- MCP Server
- No
AI/ML Stack
- NLP
- Machine Learning
- LLM
Integrations
- Microsoft Word (drafting workflow integration/add-in)
Security & Compliance
Certifications: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR
Encryption: AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit (implied by SOC 2 Type II and enterprise-grade security)
Pricing
- Model
- Per user/month, Tiered subscription
- Starting Price
- Solo & Small Teams: $300/user/month; Enterprise Unlimited: Contact sales for custom pricing.
- Target Customer
- Solo & Small Teams, Mid-Market, Enterprise
- Contract Type
- Monthly, Multi-year discounts available
- Free Trial
- Yes, Custom demo available; free trial period mentioned, specific duration not explicitly stated for Clearbrief directly. (credit card required)
About Clearbrief, Inc.
Clearbrief is a legal technology company that leverages AI to help litigators write, review, and file accurate briefs by automatically checking citations against the record and surfacing supporting or missing evidence. Its software, a Microsoft Word Add-In, integrates with common drafting workflows and document repositories to improve accuracy, reduce time spent validating references, and strengthen written advocacy, offering features like hyperlinked timelines, tables of authorities, and fact-checking.