The Seattle-based legal tech startup Clearbrief is set to introduce two artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features that will enhance the user experience for legal professionals. The features will allow users the unprecedented ability to create hyperlinked timelines and query documents.
Originally built to improve brief writing in Microsoft Word, Clearbrief quarries through a case’s discovery, exhibits, pleadings and more to find the best supporting evidence or law. The results, equipped with citations, are then displayed for the user.
The first new feature, termed Hyperlinked Timeline, capitalizes on Clearbrief’s link creation capabilities. AI is put to use to transform those hyperlinks into timelines of cases, providing a chronology complete with references to source documents that back up the dates and events in the timeline. It’s a streamlined process – users simply opt for timeline generation and the work is done for them in mere seconds. For a detailed look into the new feature, check it out as covered in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.
Whilst discussing the Hyperlinked Timeline feature, Jacqueline Schafer the founder and CEO of Clearbrief, pointed out its efficiency in connecting key dates and events not directly associated in underlying documents.
The second new feature, Ask Your Docs, simplifies the process of asking specific questions from a set of documents. Suggested answers, each complete with hyperlinks to the source documents, are put forward by the AI to help lawyers quickly get their answers. Like the Hyperlinked Timeline, this feature too is deeply rooted in providing precise, usable information without compromising efficiency.
To ensure the safely and security of client documentation, Clearbrief is certified as SOC2, Type 2, compliant. The addition of Azure OpenAI to the tech stack, powers Clearbrief’s Hyperlinked Timeline feature while providing users the assurance that their activity or information is never shared with a third-party AI model.
More details about the features can be found here. Despite the convenience offered by Clearbrief’s AI-driven features, Schafer insisted on the importance of users to “trust but verify”.
Clearbrief launched in March 2021 and has since earned recognition as the 2023 Legalweek Litigation Technology Product of the Year, among other accolades.