Clearbrief is a tool that helps legal professionals create accurate and persuasive documents by automatically generating citations and references, enhancing efficiency and accuracy.
Clearbrief is an AI-powered legal writing platform that enables litigators to find, organize, verify, and share evidence from documents, streamlining the creation of accurate, persuasive briefs with automatic citations and hyperlinked references.[1][2][7] Its core value lies in transforming massive document sets into credible narratives by extracting key facts, generating timelines, deposition summaries, tables of authorities, and exhibits directly within Microsoft Word, while integrating seamlessly with repositories like Relativity, iManage, Netdocs, Reveal, MyCase, and LexisNexis.[1][2][3][4]
Key features include AI-driven fact-checking to spot fake cases or errors, one-click compilation of hyperlinked PDFs for filing, and tools to analyze opposing briefs for weaknesses like hearsay or inadmissible evidence.[3][4][5][7] Designed for litigators at global law firms, in-house teams, courts, government agencies, nonprofits, and neutrals such as arbitrators, it supports use cases from discovery analysis and brief drafting to real-time testimony review and award generation.[1][2][6]
What sets Clearbrief apart is its transparent, verifiable AI—SOC2 Type 2 certified—that grounds every output in sourced evidence, eliminating "black box" risks and saving users an average of seven hours weekly on tedious tasks.[3][5]
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The ToS grants Clearbrief a broad license to use User Provided Information to improve services and create new features,
No training opt-out mechanism was identified in the legal documents.
Moderate risk. Suitable for internal data but avoid confidential information.
The ToS grants Clearbrief a broad license to use User Provided Information to improve services and create new features, but does not explicitly state whether this includes AI model training. The language is vague on whether employee data trains their AI models specifically.
“[ToS] 'grant to Clearbrief a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, fully paid-up, and royalty-free license to use, your User Provided Information...for the purposes of providing the applicable features and functionality...and improving the way the Clearbrief Services work and look'”
Clearbrief claims a broad, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable license to user content for service improvement and feature development, but explicitly disclaims using it for other commercial purposes. However, the sublicensing right and perpetual nature create moderate concern about scope creep.
“[ToS] 'perpetual, irrevocable, fully paid-up, and royalty-free license to use, your User Provided Information...This license does not grant Clearbrief the right to disclose your User Provided Information, or use your User Provided Information for any other commercial purposes.'”
Privacy Policy states data is shared with service providers on a confidential basis for limited purposes, but lacks detail on sub-processor lists and does not explicitly prohibit sharing with advertising or analytics partners. The language is somewhat vague about the full scope of third-party access.
“[Privacy] 'we will disclose your Personal Information (on a strictly confidential basis) to agents and others that we use in the ordinary operation of the Sites and Services, such as validation and vetting, account and billing/payment processing, marketing and promotion...to the extent required for the limited purpose'”
The ToS allows users to delete content and provides 90 days to retrieve data after account termination, but does not specify clear retention periods for deleted or archived data. The Privacy Policy mentions Clearbrief may access data for service improvement and audits but lacks explicit retention timelines.
“[ToS] 'Following any Cancellation or Termination of the Clearbrief Services for any reason, a User shall have ninety days to retrieve any and all Content.' [ToS] 'licenses granted by you terminate...except for Clearbrief's right to archive such User Provided Information...and to use such Information in aggregate form'”
The ToS explicitly states that users retain all right, title, and interest in User Provided Information. Clearbrief's license is limited to service delivery and improvement, with no claim to ownership of outputs or generated content.
“[ToS] 'Users retain all right, title, and interest in and to all User Provided Information.' [ToS] 'Any content ("Content") uploaded to the Services by a User remains the property of the User.'”
The Privacy Policy mentions that data is stored with a third-party cloud provider adhering to 'strictest security requirements in the industry,' but no specific compliance certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA) are mentioned. Security measures are described as 'strict' but not formally documented.
“[Privacy] 'Information provided to Clearbrief via the Services is stored in our third-party cloud storage provider, which adheres to the strictest security requirements in the industry.' [ToS] 'We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information'”
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