Founder of Reveal and Visionary Legal Tech Entrepreneur Joins Clearbrief to Help Accelerate the Future of Legal Writing Through Trusted AI

Prestigious Annual Awards Program Recognizes Companies and Products Driving Innovation in the Global Legal Industry

Dykema, a leading national law firm, has partnered with Clearbrief to bring AI-powered legal drafting tools directly into Microsoft Word. This collaboration empowers litigators and their clients with streamlined document creation, enhanced accuracy, and a more efficient workflow.

Clearbrief, the award-winning AI-powered legal drafting platform, has been named a Finalist in the 2025 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Awards.

AAA-ICDR will provide Clearbrief's AI-powered writing and document analysis tools to its panel of 5,500 arbitrators and mediators.

Lexis subscribers can now link citations created in Clearbrief directly to the source materials in the Lexis or Lexis+ legal research services and they can directly access primary law on Lexis from within Clearbrief.

All-In-One Case Management Software Amplifies Its Partner Ecosystem With A.I. Technology For Lawyers

Verified Fact Section allows users to incorporate information directly from e-discovery documents into a linked and sourced brief directly in Microsoft Word.

Clearbrief had previously integrated with case management platform Clio and legal research platform Fastcase/vLex and is likely to announce new integrations before the end of the year.

Today the company is introducing two AI-powered features that further enhance the product by enabling legal professionals to instantly create hyperlinked timelines and ask questions of their documents.

Clearbrief Wins 1st prize at LegalWeek.

Some firms are also experimenting with more cutting-edge uses, like helping their attorneys write legal briefs.

The winner of the Best New App category, Clearbrief, is a patented AI platform for Microsoft Word that allows users to check their written work and save an average of seven hours per week on tedious litigation tasks. With Clearbrief, Clio customers can apply powerful AI technology to any document to automatically...

“Without Clearbrief, that cite-checking process would have taken at least 15 hours of attorney time, she estimated.“

After working as an in-house counsel, an associate and an assistant attorney general, Jacqueline Schafer founded the legal technology startup Clearbrief in 2020.

Clearbrief is a legal writing platform that uses AI to make streamlined, interactive legal documents. It automatically finds and displays source documents referenced, scores and flags statements based on whether they're backed up by evidence cited, and suggests better factual sources for legal writers to use.

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to make change to the effectiveness and fairness of our justice system. My guest is Jacqueline Schafer, Founder, and CEO of Clearbrief.

“The caliber of finalists this year was superb and the awards competition was tight,” Tom Martin, cofounder of the awards and CEO of of LawDroid, said in an email.

That's why she founded Clearbrief, which could help level the playing field for small legal firms and unlock major efficiencies in the public justice system. Also, she's an amazing singer!

This legal writing startup is using AI to spot misrepresentations in litigation docs.

Clearbrief is attracting more investor interest for its AI-powered software that gives legal professionals a way to automatically spot misrepresentations in litigation documents. Clearbrief founder Jacqueline Schafer.

Jacqueline Schafer and her startup, which was founded last year, have already attracted investments from some of the biggest names in venture capital and law.

Clearbrief, the AI platform designed for winning legal advocacy, announces today a $1.2M seed round. Clearbrief is a real-time solution and revolution for lawyers evaluating their own written work and that of competitors.

Shortly after Jacqueline Schafer entered the courtroom for the final hearing in an asylum case that she was litigating several years ago, she sensed that the judge was not sympathetic to the claims of her Honduran clients.

Clearbrief, a new Seattle startup that has developed AI-fueled writing technology for the legal industry, raised $1.2 million.

The company currently has a waitlist of more than 250 potential clients, and the product will officially launch to the waitlist this week, says the company's founder and CEO.

Mark Britton, the founder and former CEO of Avvo; Bryan Garner, legal writing expert and editor of Black's Law Dictionary; and Bill Neukom, longtime Microsoft general counsel, were all seed investors in a new legal technology product designed to strengthen your legal writing.

Jacqueline Schafer and her startup, which was founded last year, have already attracted investments from some of the biggest names in venture capital and law.

Today's guest followed her passion for persuasive writing from the courtroom to legal technology. Jackie Schafer is a former Paul Weiss litigator, in-house counsel, assistant attorney general, and serial entrepreneur.

If the COVID-19 pandemic taught attorneys anything, it's that technology can change the practice of law and maximize efficiency in ways we never thought possible.