For years, BriefCatch has been focused on one mission: helping lawyers write better. We’ve built our software around the techniques that exceptional legal writers use, helping legal professionals produce clearer, sharper, more persuasive work.
And today, with the way lawyers write changing dramatically, we're taking BriefCatch, and that mission, further than ever before.
Lawyers can now use any number of tools to draft a polished brief in seconds. But with that speed and polish come new and increasingly weighty problems: drafting briefs with authoritative citations to the wrong cases, quotations that aren’t quite right, and holdings that push the limits of what the court actually said. Whether the culprit is AI or human error, when any of these slip into a final draft, even well-meaning, fastidious lawyers risk sanctions, their reputations, and the trust of clients and courts.
So today, we’re introducing a critical new chapter for BriefCatch, built to close exactly that gap: the gap between a filing that merely looks polished and one you can trust. Our aim is to bolster confidence in every filing, for every legal professional, not just those at the biggest firms.
The new BriefCatch starts with a new online app and builds from there, adding enhanced tools that verify your points and authorities while sharpening your prose. It's a major expansion of what BriefCatch can do, and of how we can help legal professionals produce work they can stand behind with confidence.
Here's your first look.
Your new front door to BriefCatch
The first thing you'll notice is an all-new BriefCatch online experience.
Your dashboard brings together your account information, your documents, BriefCatch's suite of writing and editing tools, our authority-verification tool RealityCheck, and our new Learning Hub. You can work entirely online or continue using BriefCatch inside Microsoft Word and Outlook. The choice is yours.
But the new dashboard is really just the front door. What matters is what's inside.
Write better, and now, verify your authorities
Generative AI has made it possible to produce legal documents remarkably fast. But that speed has also made it easier for errors to find their way into polished-looking work. A fabricated citation can look real. A quotation can be subtly altered. A real case can be cited for a proposition it doesn’t actually support. And as courts increasingly confront these problems in real filings, a single bad citation can carry serious consequences.
That’s why RealityCheck is now a standard part of BriefCatch on every plan: Individual, Pro, and Enterprise.
RealityCheck isn’t a citation checker, and it isn’t a citator. It reads the actual cases and authorities cited in your brief and verifies whether they say what your brief claims they say.
It checks for problems such as these:
- Altered or inaccurate quotations
- Misstated holdings and dispositions
- Unsupported propositions
- Citations that can't be verified
- Concealed text, hidden formatting, and zero-width characters
And it does all of this alongside the BriefCatch writing tools you already know.
AI can help you draft faster. BriefCatch helps you make sure that faster doesn't cost you accuracy.
And RealityCheck doesn't just review your own work. Run it against an opponent's brief and it can help you catch questionable quotations, authorities, and assertions before they slip past you or the court.
Just as important, that added confidence doesn't come at the expense of confidentiality. Your work stays yours. BriefCatch never trains on your documents, so privileged material remains under your control.
A better BriefCatch is still at the core
At the center of the new experience is an enhanced BriefCatch writing engine with sharper recommendations across five dimensions: Engagement. Concision. Flow. Punch. Clarity.
BriefCatch goes beyond identifying opportunities to improve. Each recommendation includes a plain-English explanation and before-and-after examples drawn from exceptional legal writers, so you can understand not only what to change, but why the changes work.
We do that because BriefCatch doesn't just improve the document in front of you: It's designed to help you become a better writer every time.
Learn the “why” behind stronger legal writing
That same philosophy inspired another major addition: the BriefCatch Learning Hub.
For the first time, Ross Guberman's complete legal-writing curriculum is integrated directly into the BriefCatch online experience. Drawing on the same principles he has used to train thousands of attorneys and judges around the world, the Learning Hub helps writers master the techniques behind clearer, more persuasive, and more effective legal writing.
The Learning Hub includes four courses and 90 self-paced modules, with video lessons, quizzes, and practical exercises designed to turn insight into lasting skill.
Ross has taught this material in person for years, one room at a time. Now it's built into the tool you're already using.
The connections are simple: BriefCatch shows you what to improve. Its explanations help you understand why. And the Learning Hub teaches you how to apply those lessons, across every document you write.
Organizations can also export courses to their existing LMS, making it easier to bring consistent legal-writing training to the entire firm.
This is what makes BriefCatch more than an editing tool. It strengthens the document in front of you, and it helps you become a stronger writer with every document that follows.
Built for one lawyer, and the whole firm
We've also made BriefCatch much easier to manage.
Individual lawyers can now come directly to BriefCatch, start a free trial, choose a plan, and manage their subscription themselves. No firm affiliation required. No waiting for someone to set up an account.
For firms, courts, and other organizations, we've built a new administration experience for managing BriefCatch at scale.
Administrators can manage users and seats, configure access, monitor usage, and manage AI credits across their organization all from the same online platform.
In our new online app experience, we've also made AI usage more transparent. Users can see how many AI credits they've used and how many remain. If they need more, they can purchase additional credits directly inside BriefCatch.
Enterprise administrators get another level of control: they can monitor AI credit consumption across the organization, allocate shared credit pools, and manage usage as needs change. No mystery about usage. No guessing about what's left.
Use BriefCatch where you work
The new BriefCatch experience gives you more flexibility without disrupting the workflows you already rely on, on the Web, in Microsoft Word, and in Outlook.You can start where it makes sense, use the tools you need, and move seamlessly between experiences as your work evolves.
That's why BriefCatch is more powerful and easier to use: more capabilities, available in more places, and all while allowing you to work the way you want.
Why we're doing this now
Legal writing is changing. AI isn't replacing the need for great legal writers. In many ways, it's raising the stakes. Misleading authorities aren't a hypothetical risk anymore. They're showing up in real filings and in judicial opinions and sanctions orders calling them out by name.
When producing words becomes easier, judgment becomes more important.
Can you tell whether an argument is clear? Whether a sentence is doing too much? Whether a quotation is accurate? Whether an authority really supports the proposition attached to it? Whether something that sounds persuasive is actually right?
Those are legal-writing skills. And that's the role we want BriefCatch to play in this new era: not simply helping legal professionals generate more words but helping them produce better, clearer, more credible work—and become better writers and reviewers along the way.
Try BriefCatch free for seven days
BriefCatch started with a simple goal: to make exceptional legal writing achievable for everyone.
That goal hasn't changed. What has changed is how much BriefCatch can do to help you reach it.
The new BriefCatch brings writing assistance, citation verification, professional learning, document management, and organizational tools together in one connected experience, built for everyone from law students and solo practitioners to the world's largest firms.
BriefCatch is trusted on both sides of the bench: 300+ firms write with it, and 80+ courts use it to edit opinions. No other platform can claim both.
The new BriefCatch is available now, and we're excited for you to try it. Sign up any time at briefcatch.com and get seven days free, no credit card required.
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