RealityCheck by BriefCatch
RealityCheck helps lawyers and courts evaluate the accuracy of legal authorities and the claims made about them before filing. It addresses two of the biggest risks in AI-assisted legal writing: hallucinated authorities and inaccurate statements about real authorities.
What RealityCheck Does
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1. Verifies that cited authorities actually exist
RealityCheck checks whether cited cases and federal statutes are real and correctly identified, helping prevent case hallucinations and statutory hallucinations. This allows lawyers and courts to use generative AI more confidently without risking embarrassment, sanctions, or credibility damage caused by fabricated authorities.
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2. Verifies that what the writer says about the authority is accurate
RealityCheck does not stop at confirming that a case or statute exists. It also evaluates whether quotations, characterizations, and legal assertions about an authority are correct under the law. This includes identifying when a citation is technically correct but substantively misleading or wrong.
Examples include:
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Flagging misuse of citation signals (e.g., But see)
RealityCheck Preview
RealityCheck provides structured feedback (e.g., correct, caution, incorrect) along with explanations, so users can quickly understand the severity and nature of any issue. RealityCheck helps confirm both the existence of the authority and the truthfulness of the writing about it.
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Why It Matters
As generative AI becomes more common in legal practice, the risks are no longer limited to made-up cases. In practice, the greater risk may not be from fabricated authorities, but from real authorities cited incorrectly or misleadingly.
Lawyers and courts also need protection against subtler problems, including:
- inaccurate quotations
- incorrect pincites
- misstatements of holdings
- overstatements or reversals of legal conclusions
- unsupported claims about what a case or statute stands for
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How RealityCheck Differs from Other Tools
RealityCheck focuses on a different problem: whether the legal argument is actually correct.
Not Just Another Tool
Part of the Complete Workflow
CiteCheck ensures your citations are formatted correctly.
RealityCheck ensures your citations and arguments are accurate.
Together, they ensure your brief is correct, real, and accurate.
CiteCheck
Citation formatting
(Bluebook and more)
RealityCheck
Authority existence
& legal accuracy
RealityCheck Key Benefits
For Lawyers
For Courts
For Legal Teams
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