Clearbrief

Our Founder & CEO, Jacqueline Schafer, is a featured speaker tomorrow in Chicago at the 2026 NCWBA Women's Bar Leadership Summit. Her topic is "Unmute Yourself: Amplifying Women's Leadership Through Technology" (Session 2, Friday July 31 at 10:40am).  She’ll be exploring the hesitation lawyers often feel about sharing publicly about themselves, and how it relates to staying current in a world where clients and leadership increasingly look for tech fluency in the people they hire and elevate. Other speakers at the conference include -@Melissa Romano (Owner, Reclaiming Healthy), @Amanda Alexander (Alexander Law, P.A.), @Jami Cooper (Cooper Law Offices, PLLC), @Tami Munsch (Tami Munsch, Attorney at Law), @Sheila Abron (Fisher Phillips, LLP), @Mary Smith (VENG Group; former ABA President), @Justice Joy Cunningham (Illinois Supreme Court), @Justice Maria Salas Mendoza (Chief Justice, Texas Eighth Court of Appeals), @Hon. Heather Welch (Ret.)  and @Judge Toni Clarke (Ret.) See you in Chicago 👋 #NCWBA2026 #WomensBarLeadership #LegalTech #AmplifyYourVoice

We're proud to share that Clearbrief is in the running for the 2026 Relativity Innovation Awards! 🏆 Community Choice voting is how the legal tech community gets a say in who moves forward as a finalist  and we'd love your vote. 🗳️ Voting opens July 13 and runs through August 22. It takes less than a minute to scan the QR code or use the link below to cast your vote for Clearbrief. Vote here or scan the QR code to place your vote: https://lnkd.in/ec39Xm28 See you at Relativity Fest in Chicago this October, where finalists and winners will be announced! #LegalTech #AI #Clearbrief #RelativityAwards #RelativityFest

Clearbrief is Chicago-bound! The Clearbrief team will be at CLOC Global Institute next week (May 11-14) helping in-house teams learn about how they can improve consistency of their workplace investigations and reduce the company’s risk. Find us at Booth #104 in the Exhibit Hall! Want to lock in time now? Book a meeting with the QR code or in the comments below. #CLOCGlobalInstitute #CGI2026 #LegalOps #LegalTech #Clearbrief

We're thrilled to share that Clearbrief has been accepted into SHRM's WorkplaceTech Accelerator, and getting to know the other founders in the cohort has been a rewarding experience. Next Tuesday in Dallas, our Founder & CEO Jacqueline Schafer will be joining fellow accelerator founders on stage at SHRM Talent 2026 for a conversation about what it takes for new technology to truly support HR leaders. Joining Jacqueline on the panel: 🔵 Alex Marcus, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Mento 🔵 Namrata Kamdar, Co-Founder & COO, Testlify 🔵 Sarah J. Rodehorst, Co-Founder and CEO, Onwards HR  🔵 Tony Buffum, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Human Cloud Session details: https://lnkd.in/gXSXdhmY If you'll be in Dallas, we'd love to see you there! #SHRMTalent #HRTech #SHRMLabs

I'm incredibly proud to share that Clearbrief.ai is one of only 4 companies selected out of 400 that applied to participate in SHRM's workplace tech accelerator program! What does this mean for our customers? It means we are doubling down on our internal investigations tools in Word with the benefit of SHRM's insights and industry reach. SHRM is arguably the biggest thought leader and training platform in the HR space, with 100s of thousands of human resources and employment law professionals in their network. SHRM selected Clearbrief because of its own research into the growing importance of internal investigations to their membership. Andrea Lucas of the EEOC made it abundantly clear in a video she posted in December and the follow-up letter she sent in Feb 2026 to Fortune 500 CEOs: the EEOC is taking an aggressive stance in investigating companies with DEI programs or orgs that have not appropriately responded to white men who have complained of discrimination. As one example, on March 19th, the EEOC announced it had settled with Planned Parenthood (PP) of Illinois to the tune of $500,000 to end the EEOC’s investigation into PP’s practices of offering different leave options to white and black employees, and requiring employees to take DEI training sessions. HR professionals and in-house legal teams handling internal investigations have never faced more scrutiny of their work product, and Clearbrief's investigation report workflow in Word ensures that every sentence of the investigation findings are backed by hard evidence. And we make it easy for leaders to review and access that evidence to support accurate, unbiased decisionmaking. So proud to be in this cohort along with: Mento: AI-powered leadership coaching that pairs leaders with operators who've actually done the job (Alex Marcus Jamie Albers) Onwards HR : turning one of HR's hardest moments, employee separation and offboarding, into a process that's both compliant and humane (Sarah J. Rodehorst) Testlify: skills-based hiring assessments in 14 languages, integrated with 100+ ATS platforms (Namrata Kamdar) If you handle internal investigations of any sort, please reach out so we can chat about what we've built at Clearbrief.ai and where we're headed with the help of SHRM! Hadeel Al-Tashi Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP Alexander Alonso, PhD SHRM-SCP Nick Schacht, SHRM-SCP Jane Hadley

Glad to be quoted in this piece from Law360 on why we continue to see sanctions cases on an almost daily basis where attorneys are misrepresenting facts and law in their filings. Katherine Forrest from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and Jayne Reardon FISHER BROYLES LLP also shared their thoughts with Sarah Martinson on why we're likely to continue to see increasing penalties from judges. My understanding from meeting with leading AI scientists and even OpenAI's own research is that large language models will not ever be able to completely eliminate hallucinations, even as they improve, due to the nature of how these models work and how they're trained. But one practical safeguard that court rules committees could initiate today is to require hyperlinked filings, as many courts already do. Here's one of my quotes from the Law360 piece: "Schafer said that requiring hyperlinks to case law in briefs, which some courts already do, could curtail the problem. "It's the quickest, easiest way for the court to be able to see at a glance whether there is legal authority ... that backs up these sources," Schafer said. "It makes it 1,000 times easier for the reviewing court. But it's also a good practice, because in creating that hyperlinked version, it forces ... the lawyer to just double check and confront their own legal authorities and factual authorities." This is our mission at Clearbrief.ai - to make it faster for lawyers to satisfy their ethical duties to check work product by automatically displaying the source for every factual and legal cite from inside Word, and flagging every type of mistake before the filing. Since Clearbrief does that step, it only takes another click to create a hyperlinked version for filing so the judge can benefit from the linked sources, too. What other practical solutions are we missing to this problem? #ai #litigation #attorneydiscipline #law #courts

Spot the AI Slop has been sparking some competitive energy at Booth #347. $1,000 prize. Winners announced at 4:45 PM ET today and 3 PM ET tomorrow. Stop by if you want in. #Legalweek2026