In a recent development that demonstrates the ongoing evolution of legal tech adoption, AI-legal drafting tool Clearbrief has formed a new partnership with renowned legal research firm LexisNexis Legal & Professional. Primarily, this collaboration facilitates Clearbrief customers who are also Lexis subscribers to access legal content and citations on Lexis while drafting documents within the Clearbrief add-in for Microsoft Word.
The new integration allows Lexis subscribers to link citations created in Clearbrief directly to original source materials on the Lexis or Lexis+ legal research services. Furthermore, users can readily access primary law on Lexis from within Clearbrief.
According to Jacqueline Schafer, founder and CEO of Clearbrief, the additional capability of direct linking to Lexis content within their Clearbrief workflows is a response to customer demand. As Clearbrief’s platform continues to gain recognition across various law firms, courts, and governmental agencies, the need for seamless integration of evidence handling and legal research has heightened.
Clearbrief’s platform aids legal professionals in identifying supportive factual evidence while writing briefs and other legal documents in Word, executing cite-check for both facts and law, and generating documents like timelines, exhibits, and tables of authority.
This partnership not only enhances technological access but also emphasizes the ethical responsibility held by law practitioners. As courts continue to require filings to have hyperlinks to cited law and evidence, and exhibit greater vigilance against fraudulent citations, Clearbrief strives to ensure the correctness and proper support for both factual and legal citations.
The inclusion of hyperlinks directly to Lexis content, as per Schafer, improves transparency in litigation and supports courts’ access to cited materials. And when a brief is finalized via Clearbrief, it produces a version fully enriched with hyperlinks, ready-made for court filing and client sharing.
The partnership also highlights LexisNexis’s commitment to cater to customer needs as pointed out by Carrie Wright, VP, practical guidance and secondary at LexisNexis. By integrating access to LexisNexis content into the users’ legal workflows, the partnership aims not only to provide valuable digital tools, but also to elevate the efficiency and effectiveness of legal professionals in their drafting tasks.
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