Judges Use Clearbrief & So Should You, with Jackie Schafer

The California Appellate Law Podcast

Among the hundreds of great new legal tech available in recent years, Clearbrief stands near the top. Jackie Schafer, a former big-law and state attorney general who had a vision of attorneys and their staff working more effectively and efficiently, designed an app that lives right in your Microsoft Word. Clearbrief lets you upload your case file to it so you can ask it questions: “When did the defendant first get notice of plaintiff’s claim?” “Where is the evidence of defendant’s bad faith?” “What are the plaintiff’s expert’s opinions?” Clearbrief will take you directly to the page and line of the document that supports your facts.

And its new timeline feature is a game-changer: feed Clearbrief a pile of documents with unorganized facts, and it will give you a chart showing the timeline of relevant events, complete with hyperlinks showing the page and line for each.

Judges are now using Clearbrief to write their opinions.

And did you know? Legal-writing guru Bryan Garner was Clearbrief’s first angel investor.

Jackie Schafer’s biography, LinkedIn profile, and Twitter feed.

Appellate Specialist Jeff Lewis' biography, LinkedIn profile, and Twitter feed.

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Other items discussed in the episode:

• Clearbrief.com
• Bob Ambrogi: New AI Features In Clearbrief Create Hyperlinked Timelines And Allow Users To Query Their Documents
• Videos from this episode will be posted at Tim Kowal’s YouTube channel.