Clearbrief

What is Clearbrief?

Clearbrief is an AI-powered legal writing platform that runs inside Microsoft Word and checks drafts against the record with hyperlinked citations. Litigators, in-house counsel, courts and government agencies use it to draft and verify pleadings.

Key capabilities of Clearbrief

• Fact-checking: Verify claims against record evidence.
• Hyperlinked citations: Link statements to source documents.
• Document analysis: Review evidence and case files.
• Timeline generation: Build timelines from documents.
• Table generation: Create tables from the record.

How Clearbrief works

Lawyers upload case documents and draft inside Word, and Clearbrief links each factual assertion to supporting evidence with hyperlinked citations while flagging unsupported statements. It also builds timelines, tables and Tables of Authorities. The vendor states data is never used for model training and offers a Bring Your Own Storage option.

Who uses Clearbrief?

Am Law 200 firms, courts, government agencies and in-house legal teams use Clearbrief; the vendor reports 3.2M+ pleadings drafted since its 2021 launch.

Clearbrief pricing

The vendor lists a Solo plan at $300 per month per user, with multi-year discounts on request. Enterprise Unlimited is custom priced with volume discounts and includes one-to-one onboarding training.

Clearbrief alternatives

Harvey is a broader legal AI assistant, CoCounsel from Thomson Reuters covers research and drafting, and Spellbook focuses on contract drafting in Word. Clearbrief is distinguished by record-linked fact-checking for litigation writing.