Ambrogi writes at LawSites..
If I were to tell you that 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, would I have your attention?
In fact, they are just three of several legal-industry notables who have invested $1.2 million in seed capital in a company launching today, Clearbrief, that does something unlike any other legal technology product I have seen.
Clearbrief’s algorithm analyzes briefs and other legal documents to identify how well the writer’s sentence is supported by the cited source. It works with citations both to the record of the case, such as evidence and discovery materials, and to caselaw.
In addition, Clearbrief:
- Automatically fixes the formatting of all your citations and generates a table of authorities.
- Creates hyperlinks to the source document for each citation, including both record and case citations, and publishes the final brief online, where the judge and other parties can view the brief (via a secure link) directly alongside the cited documents and cases.
Clearbrief’s Seattle-based founder, Jacqueline Schafer, a former litigator, says the product can be used by a lawyer to review the strength of the lawyer’s own brief or to evaluate a brief received from an opponent. It could also be used to create a deposition outline, with links to all the pertinent exhibits.
Lean more of the details at Lawsites
New Clearbrief Finds The Best Evidence To Strengthen Your Legal Writing
