The Problem
Law firms bill $500/hour but run on email, Word docs, and manual research. Associates spend 60% of their time on tasks AI can do in minutes:
- 8+ hours for comprehensive case research
- Thousands of pages reviewed manually in discovery
- $150K+/year per associate on repeatable tasks
- Missed precedents because nobody can read everything
The Insight
Legal work isn’t creative—it’s pattern matching at scale. Research, contract review, discovery: these are workflows, not artistry. The best lawyers aren’t doing more manual labor; they’re applying judgment to the right problems.
What if AI handled the 60% so lawyers could focus on the 40% that matters?
CaseBrief: The AI Associate
An AI-powered platform that automates legal workflows end-to-end:
🔍 Legal Research at Scale
Search across every federal and state case, statute, and regulation. CaseBrief finds relevant precedents, analyzes holdings, and cites sources—in seconds. Includes automatic Shepardizing and adverse authority detection.
📄 Contract Analysis
Upload any contract and get instant issue-spotting, risk scoring, and clause-by-clause analysis against your firm’s playbook. Flags missing protections, non-standard terms, and hidden liabilities.
📋 Discovery Automation
Review thousands of documents in minutes. AI-powered privilege detection, relevance scoring, and automatic categorization. No more armies of contract attorneys.
✍️ Brief & Motion Drafting
Generate first drafts with proper citations and Bluebook formatting. Train on your firm’s winning arguments and adapt to judge-specific preferences.
The Market
- $800B global legal services market
- 65% of legal work is automatable (McKinsey)
- $50B+ spent annually on document review alone
- Harvey AI just raised $80M at $1.5B valuation
- Casetext acquired by Thomson Reuters for $650M
Competitive Positioning
| vs. | CaseBrief Advantage |
|---|---|
| Generic AI (ChatGPT) | Zero hallucinated citations, real-time case validation, full audit trail |
| Westlaw/Lexis AI | End-to-end workflow automation, not just search. 60% lower cost |
| Enterprise Legal AI | Week 1 deployment, no training required, pay-per-use |
The Wedge: Litigation
Start with litigation workflows—the most time-intensive and research-heavy practice area. Expand to corporate, M&A, and IP once we own the courtroom.
Why litigation?
- Highest research burden (average 8-12 hrs/matter)
- Most citations (easy to measure accuracy)
- Partners most frustrated with associate throughput
Business Model
| Tier | Price | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Solo | $299/mo | Solo practitioners, small firms |
| Team | $799/mo/attorney | 5-25 attorney firms |
| Enterprise | Custom | AmLaw 200 firms |
Security & Trust
Lawyers are paranoid about data—for good reason. CaseBrief is built for enterprise:
- SOC 2 Type II certified
- Attorney-client privilege protected (your data never trains our models)
- 256-bit AES encryption at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit
- Bar compliant with ABA ethics opinions on AI use
How Law Firms Buy
- Partner champion sees the pain, wants to pilot
- IT security review (we pass, fast)
- 3-month pilot on one practice group
- Firm-wide rollout after proven ROI
We make the pilot easy: guaranteed 20% time savings or money back.
Why Now?
- LLM accuracy finally good enough for legal citations (hallucination rate < 0.5%)
- Post-COVID firms are cost-conscious, open to automation
- Thomson Reuters/Casetext acquisition validated the market
- Associate salaries at all-time high ($225K starting at BigLaw)
“The AI associate that never sleeps.”
A 2667.io venture