2026 Litigation Technology of the Year
“What Clearbrief has accomplished stands alone. When design requires lawyers to verify and validate outputs in real time as Clearbrief has done, you reinforce good judgment and responsible AI usage habits.”
The leading cite-checking platform in Legal.
Clearbrief is the only platform that systematically checks citations to both the law and facts without Gen AI (so it can’t hallucinate).
Hyperlink any brief or motion for the court, build instant Tables of Authorities, Exhibits that update dynamically as the draft changes, Timelines, Fact sections, and summaries of 50K+ files with clickable cites.
WMotion_for_Summary_Judgment.docx — Microsoft Word
Integrates with where your sources live, LexisNexis and Fastcase vLex.
Legal Authority Integrations
Fastcase vLex (Clio)
Fastcase vLex (Clio)Fact Cite Integrations
Trusted by hundreds of the largest global law firms, the American Arbitration Association, and in-house teams like Microsoft.Approximately 70% of the AmLaw 20 use Clearbrief.
10,000+
Litigators using Clearbrief.
5,500+
Arbitrators and mediators equipped with Clearbrief. The official cite-checking tool of the American Arbitration Association.
5.4M+
Citations checked with Clearbrief since launch.
“Clearbrief is hooked into LexisNexis — if you have case citations generated through AI it will tell you if some of them are hallucinations. It spares you the embarrassment of submitting a brief with fake cases.”
“I swear I’m not a rep, but I tell everyone at the firm about Clearbrief. Everyone is scared of hallucinations, and the hyperlinking solves that!”
“Clearbrief is super helpful in pulling up the cases and pincites for me to check.”
“The hyperlinking is an incredible feature. What it would take from a time perspective to hyperlink a 60 page brief compared to what Clearbrief can do is absolutely awesome. When we do this manually, we have to make sure the brief is done a day and a half earlier to make sure that there is time for it.”
Your current cite-checking process leaves your firm exposed to liability if each person signing hasn’t looked at cited sources themselves.
Courts in every jurisdiction are cracking down on attorneys who sign filings containing AI hallucinations and levying penalties ranging from public shaming to $130K in fees.
Court rules, caselaw, and emerging state laws now require that every attorney signing must be able to certify that each cited source exists, is accurate, and they have reviewed it with their own eyes.
2,000+
sanctions cases to date that could have been avoided with Clearbrief.
Clearbrief satisfies the Rule 11 (and new California law) requirements for every signing attorney.
Use it at the end of the writing process to systematically verify every citation to the law and factual record, no matter what AI tools got used along the way.
Flags the widest variety of citation errors without turning over control of the document entirely to AI
Unlike Gen AI-powered cite-checking tools, Clearbrief’s cite-checking workflows are deterministic (rule-based) and can’t hallucinate
Links every citation for colleagues to easily see in Word or as a hyperlinked PDF you file for the court
Can Clearbrief catch errors in an opposing counsel’s brief, too? Oh yes.
Courts are shifting fees to lawyers who catch an opponent’s AI errors, and increasingly penalizing those who miss them. Clearbrief helps you catch them by converting the PDF to a word document and analyzing it.
Since we're already linking your cites to sources, now we can build a TOA, Exhibits, & Hyperlinked pleadings in seconds.
From searching facts and creating timelines to tables of authorities, exhibits, and hyperlinked filings, every tool leverages links back to the source, right in Word.
No matter how you build your facts section, Clearbrief finds your fact cites.
Use the patented Add Fact Cite tool to select any text in the Word doc & automatically populate clickable citations to your evidence from Relativity, Reveal, iManage, NetDocuments, Clio, & more.
Curated Gen AI litigation workflows for people who value consistency and hate prompting.
Our curated set of Gen AI tools guides you through the workflows, so you don’t need to be good at prompting and you always get consistent results with hyperlinked sources that help you check
- Timelines
- Summaries
- Ask My Docs
- Investigation Reports
- Facts Section
Where does Clearbrief fit in the litigation workflow?
At the start of the writing process
- 1Bring in your factual evidence to make it text searchable and create timelines that orient you to the story.
- 2Write your facts section with hyperlinked pincites to sources.
- 3Check both facts and law as you use other generative AI tools like Harvey, Legora, Westlaw, and LexisNexis.
When it’s time to file
- 4Do a final cite-check with an audit trail so all signers can easily verify cited facts and law.
- 5Build your Table of Authorities and Exhibits with a few clicks.
- 6Hyperlink everything for the court and clients.
How secure is Clearbrief?
Clearbrief meets the strictest security requirements in the industry.
Clearbrief is used by hundreds of firms across the AmLaw 10, 100, 200, by boutique firms, solo practitioners, courts, government agencies, arbitrators, & in-house legal teams.
- SOC 2 Type II Certified
- Control how and if Generative AI is used
- No LLM training on your data
- BYO storage
The five reasons why Clearbrief is the most comprehensive cite-checking tool in legal
Get Clearbrief from the Microsoft AppSource store (if you’re a small firm) or request a demo.
FAQs
Still have questions? Request a demo and ask us directly.
Clearbrief is a legal AI drafting tool with the proof built in. It works inside Microsoft Word to help legal teams draft, cite-check, hyperlink, and verify legal work, with every legal and factual citation tied back to the source.
Yes. Clearbrief runs as a task pane inside Microsoft Word, so legal teams can search sources, add fact citations, analyze drafts, and create hyperlinked PDFs without leaving their document.
Yes. Clearbrief creates hyperlinked PDFs, we call courtesy copies, so reviewers can move from an assertion in the writing to the cited source in one click.
Because Clearbrief links your writing’s citations to their source documents, Clearbrief can automatically generate a court-ready Table of Authorities, compile your exhibits, and hyperlink every citation for filing. For complex exhibit cases, like those in international arbitration, Smart Exhibits formats, numbers, and organizes exhibits from upload through filing, and keeps the exhibit index accurate as documents change.
Clearbrief keeps the source material in view. Generated summaries, timelines, tables, and draft sections link back to the underlying documents, so lawyers can verify the work instead of trusting unsupported AI output. All of Clearbrief’s cite checking tools utilize deterministic AI, which can’t hallucinate.
Yes. Clearbrief analyzes a draft and flags potential hallucinations, citation errors, inaccurate quotes, and authorities that may not be supported before the document is filed or shared and makes it easy for the reviewer to view, verify, and correct any errors.
Yes. Clearbrief checks whether factual assertions are supported by the record, transcripts, exhibits, and other source documents, and surfaces the supporting passage.
No. Clearbrief uses deterministic AI, not generative AI, to check citations. Checking one generative model’s output with another generative model carries the same hallucination risk it’s supposed to catch.
Yes. Many Clearbrief workflows, including citation checking, source linking, and hyperlinked PDFs, focus on verification and do not require generating new text.
No. Clearbrief does not use your documents to train large language models. It is built for confidential legal work, with SOC 2 Type II security and enterprise deployment support.
Those tools generate legal drafts. Clearbrief can be used alongside these tools, to verify their outputs, checking citations against the actual record and keeping the draft connected to its sources before it is filed, shared, or signed.
BriefCatch is a legal writing and citation-formatting editor. It does not build Tables of Authorities, search source documents for evidence, or verify that a factual claim is actually supported by the record, which is Clearbrief’s core function.
Clearbrief is used by Am Law and BigLaw litigation teams, HR and workplace investigators, arbitrators, courts, government agencies, appellate teams, pro bono organizations, and law schools.
Yes. Clearbrief is built for serious, high-stakes legal work and is used across Am Law firms, courts, arbitration, and government legal teams that cannot afford citation or verification mistakes.
Clearbrief is priced as an annual, license-based subscription.
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Built into Microsoft Word · SOC 2 Type II · Does not train on your data
Pricing
A small investment to power big wins
One simple price. Even if you only use one of Clearbrief's core features, you'll get the ROI.
Solo
$300/month
Per user per month
Enterprise Unlimited
Custom
Volume discounts available
For Solo: Want lower pricing? Contact us about multi-year agreements. Email hello@clearbrief.ai to learn more.
For Enterprise Unlimited: Our platform includes our industry-leading 1:1 training — we handle getting your team upskilled in the use of responsible AI.