Generative AI can speed up legal research, drafting, and revision, but it can also introduce fabricated citations, inaccurate quotations, misstated court holdings, and unsupported legal claims.
The new self-serve online application from BriefCatch lets individual attorneys, small law firms, law students, and courts purchase direct access to its legal writing and citation verification tools.
Last month, BriefCatch combined writing, verification, and training tools in a unified suite designed to help legal professionals review their work before it reaches a client, court, or opposing counsel.
Attorneys can also use BriefCatch to flag errors in opponents' briefs, including unsupported claims that could mislead the court.
Clear, accurate legal writing should not require a tradeoff between speed and accuracy, according to Ross Guberman, founder and CEO of BriefCatch.
"Nor should it be something only the largest firms can access," he said. "With the new BriefCatch, we're giving all legal professionals the tools to produce stronger, more accurate work today, while becoming better writers and reviewers over time."
BriefCatch's new online app offers direct, self-serve purchasing for all legal professionals. Guberman expects individual lawyers' use of the app to encourage adoption across larger firms.
He said lawyers shouldn't need to navigate a large firm's bureaucracy to get a second set of eyes on a brief. The new online app makes it easier to try BriefCatch, subscribe, and get back to work.
For years before creating BriefCatch, Guberman taught writing techniques to lawyers and judges who would leave a workshop eager to try them. But then a deadline would intervene, or they could not remember an example that had impressed them.
"When I decided to dip my toes in legal tech, I wanted to put that guidance beside them when and where they needed it. Years later, our new app puts editing, verification, and training in one place, which especially helps lawyers who don't have a colleague down the hall willing to review a draft," he told TechNewsWorld.
He sees individual enthusiasm spearheading firm-wide adoption. That also occurred with his existing application, RealityCheck , which detects fabricated legal citations, misstated holdings, and AI hallucinations in legal briefs before they are filed.
"We've seen that more than once. One lawyer gets excited about BriefCatch or RealityCheck, tells colleagues, and becomes its champion inside the firm. Self-serve makes that first step easier, but it doesn't replace the security reviews and administrative controls that firms still need," he said.
Guberman added that RealityCheck offers other opportunities, including in doctrinal classes. It teaches how to take a flagged claim, read the opinion, and defend a conclusion — including a conclusion that the tool is wrong.
"More than ever, students need to learn that a source, a summary of that source, and an argument built on it are three different animals," he explained.
BriefCatch checks citations and legal claims for errors, regardless of whether a document was drafted by a person or an AI tool.
Guberman noted that an unsupported proposition needs better support, whether it came from a chatbot or a seasoned litigator. It doesn't matter whether it was written in 2026 or 1976.
"Lawyers were misquoting cases and overstating holdings long before anyone had heard of generative AI. What AI changes is how persuasive a mistake can look," he said.
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