Clearbrief

Clearbrief is a Microsoft Word add-in that uses AI to verify whether legal citations support their factual assertions, build hyperlinked chronologies and check authorities against the record.

Clearbrief is a litigation-focused AI writing tool that lives inside Microsoft Word as an add-in, so lawyers work in the environment they already use. Its core function is citation verification: after a brief or motion is uploaded, Clearbrief reads each factual assertion alongside the source it cites and generates a semantic match score showing how well the citation actually supports the claim. It automatically identifies and links to the exact pages of evidence in the record, which sharply reduces the manual effort of confirming that every statement is backed by the file. Beyond verification, Clearbrief helps litigators build hyperlinked chronologies of the facts, check legal authorities in real time and produce filings where reviewers and courts can click straight through to the underlying evidence. Users frequently praise its OCR capabilities and ease of use, noting that it streamlines the tedious work of cite-checking and record review that traditionally consumes significant associate and paralegal time. Founded by former appellate litigator Jacqueline Schafer, Clearbrief sits in the legal-AI landscape alongside broader platforms, but its differentiator is a narrow, defensible focus on grounding a document's assertions in the actual record. That focus makes it especially relevant amid growing concern about AI hallucinations and fabricated citations in legal filings, since Clearbrief is built to check what the evidence says rather than to generate unverified text.