Clearbrief, the award-winning AI-powered legal drafting platform, has been named a Finalist in the 2025 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Awards.
Clearbrief was recognized in two categories: Best Use of Artificial Intelligence (E-Discovery & Litigation) and Innovator of the Year - Provider (Individual) for Founder and CEO Jacqueline Schafer.
Other finalists in Best Use of Artificial Intelligence (E-Discovery & Litigation) were ClaimScore, Filevine, FTI Technology and Lighthouse. Recognized in Innovator of the Year - Provider (Individual) were Ryan Anderson, Founder and CEO of Filevine; Jeffrey Chivers, CEO of Syllo; Wendell Jisa, Founder and CEO of Reveal; Michael Ulin, co-Founder and CTO of Paxton AI and Young Yu, Vice President, Advanced Analytics & Strategic Solutions at HaystackID.
The Best Use of Artificial Intelligence category recognizes legal technology companies or alternative legal service providers that are providing cutting-edge products or services that incorporate artificial intelligence, generative artificial intelligence, large language models, natural language processing, machine learning and more.
In August 2023, Clearbrief was the first platform to release a generative AI timeline tool. After months of customer feedback, Clearbrief released a major overhaul of the timeline tool in early 2024, and in July 2024 released its specialized Medical Timeline option. Unlike other genAI tools, Clearbrief's output is always inside Word and always shows clickable citations after each sentence so the reviewer can see the highlighted source page from inside Word.
These timeline tools were built to work smoothly with the broad variety of uploaded data that users bring into Clearbrief from discovery, including medical data, forms, handwritten notes, spreadsheets, and more. Clearbrief built its genAI tools to handle very large file sizes and does not limit the number of files for generating timelines. Clearbrief has since built the ability to sort timelines by theme, and filter by keyword and other key data important to reviewers of large medical timelines.
In 2024, Clearbrief also introduced its differentiated Deposition Summary tool providing multiple options for the depth of the summary and allowing users to add keywords or phrases of interest that highlight for the user which sections are most important for them to review.
The challenge Clearbrief was looking to solve was significant. In every lawsuit, the litigation teams on both sides must read, organize, and curate the increasingly voluminous factual documents that tell the story of the case. Litigators also spend hours summarizing deposition transcripts to analyze testimony and prepare for motions/trial.
Clearbrief's approach to providing its generative AI tools to its customers is different from many other LegalTech startups - instead of an open-ended chatbot interface that requires a user to learn prompt engineering, which often produces wildly inconsistent output, Clearbrief offers a curated menu of vetted litigation workflows.
Clearbrief CEO Jacqueline Schafer is also a Finalist in the Innovator of the Year - Provider (Individual) category.
Users can try Clearbrief by downloading it from Microsoft AppSource, booking a demo, or emailing hello@clearbrief.ai for more information.
About Clearbrief
Clearbrief is an AI-powered SaaS legal writing platform used by law firms, courts, government agencies, and global in-house legal teams. Clearbrief's technology integrates directly into Microsoft Word, allowing legal professionals to seamlessly research, verify, and draft documents with unprecedented accuracy. Clearbrief was recognized as the 2023 Litigation Technology Product of the Year by LegalWeek and integrates with LexisNexis, Relativity, iManage, Netdocs, and more.
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