Jacqueline Schafer, the founder and CEO of Clearbrief, was impressed to start out the corporate primarily based on her personal experiences as a litigator and appellate advocate. A pivotal second for her got here in an asylum case she was dealing with professional bono, when her potential to level the decide to crucial proof that supported her arguments saved her shopper from deportation and doable demise. At that second, she later outdated me, the thought crystalized for her, “Should you can present the decide the proof that basically tells your shopper’s story, that’s the way you win.’”
Quickly after, Schafer set to work constructing Clearbrief, AI-powered software program that works inside Microsoft Phrase to assist legal professionals discover one of the best info to help their authorized writing. This week, the four-year-old firm introduced that it had raised a further funding spherical of $4 million, bringing its whole funding to just about $8 million. Alongside the way in which, it has racked up quite a few awards, together with Legalweek’s 2023 litigation product of the yr, Clio’s 2022 Launch//Code Developer Contest, Legalweek’s 2022 new legislation firm of the yr, and the American Authorized Know-how Awards’ 2021 authorized tech startup of the yr.
Schafer is our visitor immediately on LawNext, as she shares her journey from practising lawyer to startup founder, describes how Clearbrief helps legal professionals of their authorized writing, and discusses what this newest funding means for the corporate and its clients.
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