Major https://t.co/INJla2nJDS announcement today on Business Insider - our new Cite Check Report is now available to all customers!
Cite Check report is our newest tool, built in collaboration with our AmLaw 10, 20, and 100 customers, designed to give law firm partners peace of mind before they sign their reputation to a pleading that someone may have used AI to draft. Clearbrief’s report is the only citation analysis report in the industry covering both factual and legal authority citations. (Many of the sanctions cases have involved fake AI-generated fact references!)
The Report builds on Clearbrief's core Word Doc Analyzer tech - which is NOT generative AI - that automatically:
- identifies the strings of text for legal and factual citations (even if riddled with mistakes) and flags potential issues in both formatting and substance - including how well that page of the source supports your assertion
- Displays the source from LexisNexis or vLex inside Word so everyone on the team can quickly review,
- Displays cited factual evidence (uploaded from integrations with Relativity, Reveal, iManage, Netdocs, Clio, 8am, Box)
- Gathers a list of citation issues that the user can click through to quickly fix.
At the end of this interactive review, which satisfies our ethical obligations as attorneys, the user can create the Cite Check Report to prove to the partner that the review has been done and the pleading is good to sign.
The report itself is hyperlinked so the partner can easily lay eyes on every flagged citation issue themselves if desired.
This is also your firm’s audit trail in case you need to defend yourself from a sanctions order. The latest orders this week resulted in $85,000 and $60,000 sanctions for firms that filed pleadings containing AI hallucinated cases.
I'm incredibly grateful for design partners like Kristina Bakardjiev at Cozen O'Connor, who shared: "In a world where AI misuse can undermine trust in the legal profession, the strongest safeguard is better-built AI—solutions like Clearbrief [that allow] us to integrate features that combine human judgment with machine verification. Every factual assertion and legal citation is independently checked, and the system generates a clear validation record. That level of transparency gives our clients, colleagues, and tribunals the confidence they deserve—and sets a new standard for compliant, trustworthy practice."
Read more about it in the articles linked below (as well as links to the recent hallucinations cases).
I founded @Clearbriefai because during a decade of litigation practice, I never felt so moved and empowered as when I could help my clients win in court with strategic writing. I felt certain (back in 2020) that AI could help more lawyers win.
It's taken some time for the press to cover these real world stories of how AI is changing the legal profession for the better - so I'm thrilled Melia Russell at @BusinessInsider has profiled Clearbrief customer Joseph McMullen's civil rights win on behalf of two innocent American children who were imprisoned at the border and severely traumatized.
The article covers how he strategically used Clearbrief's hyperlinking and timeline tools to win a hard-fought victory for these clients - it's extremely rare to win a case against Customs and Border Protection. Unbelievably proud that Clearbrief could play a role in this victory for his clients!
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"While preparing for trial, McMullen found a California unlawful detainment case that had resulted in a large damages award. To try to steer Curiel toward a similar judgment, he used Clearbrief to link an appellate brief from that case — buried deep in a district court docket — directly in his trial memo."
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"Another Clearbrief feature McMullen relied on was timelines. The tool turned over dozens of depositions and other records and created a case chronology, complete with hyperlinks to the source documents that support the dates and events shown in the timeline.
McMullen didn't submit the timeline in court — it was "maybe a thousand lines," he said — but he read it closely in trial prep to make sure he hadn't missed anything."
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We're excited to announce that Clearbrief is a finalist for Startup of the Year at the 2025 @ GeekWire Awards! 🏆 Past winners of Startup of the Year include @Redfin, @Tableau, @Auth0, @Smartsheet, and @Remitly.
Please vote for Clearbrief here until 3/23: https://t.co/FTnttlyx4g
Big News: @ADRorg arbitrators and parties to AAA cases will get access to Clearbrief for their legal writing, modernizing the justice system!
Try Clearbrief today so you’re ready for your next case with an American Arbitration Association arbitrator!
Huge announcement today - @Clearbrief.ai is an official partner of the American Arbitration Association! @ADRorg
This means that every arbitrator and every *party* to a AAA arbitration will have access to Clearbrief’s responsible AI tools in Word.
Tools that help you catch citation formatting and substantive mistakes. Tools that create hyperlinked timelines from tens of thousands of documents inside Word, that can be transformed with a click into a facts section. All with enterprise grade security, confidentiality, and 1:1 training.
This is a major step towards modernizing the justice system, as AAA arbitrators handle some of the most complex and high stakes cases in the country.
If you have an arbitration coming up this year, time to get started on your AI journey! Head to https://t.co/INJla2nJDS to learn more.
#litigation #aaa #Clearbrief #legalwriting #genai #startups Bridget Mary McCormack Eric Dill Linda Beyea