Check the brief before it's filed.
Counselcite checks every citation against the Bluebook and looks up every case in the court record. You accept the fixes you want, and nothing else in the document changes.
What it does for a brief.
Fixes the form
Page spans, parentheticals, signals, short forms and id. come back corrected. Each finding shows the new citation and the rule behind it, and one click applies it.
Confirms the cases
We look up every case in the public court record. If the year, the court or the name doesn't match, you hear about it before the judge does.
Builds the Table of Authorities
We build it from the citations in the brief, with the page each authority appears on, ready to paste into the filing.
It catches the wrong year, the wrong court and the wrong name.
Anderson v. Liberty Lobby was decided in 1986. If the brief says 1988, the finding says so and offers the year on record. We check the court and the case name the same way.
What courts did about citations that weren't real- Wrong
- Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 248 (1988).
- Right
- Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 248 (1986).
What comes back.
You get back the document you uploaded, with the corrections you accepted made in it and nothing else touched.
As written
A fact is material if it might affect the outcome of the suit under the governing law. Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 247-248, (1986). The moving party bears the initial burden of showing the absence of a genuine dispute. Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 322-323 (1986). Id., at 323. Overtime is owed under 29 USCA § 207(a)(1).
As it comes back
A fact is material if it might affect the outcome of the suit under the governing law. Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 247-48 (1986). The moving party bears the initial burden of showing the absence of a genuine dispute. Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 322-23 (1986). Id. at 323. Overtime is owed under 29 U.S.C.A. § 207(a)(1).
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Questions
What happens to the brief?
We read it in memory, check it, and discard it when the response is sent. We don't log it or send it to any other service. If you sign in you can keep a document, encrypted, for seven days, thirty days or until you delete it.
Does it change the document?
Only where you accept a correction. Everything else, including footnotes, styles, fields and images, comes back exactly as it went in.
What does “not confirmed” mean?
We look each case up in the public court record by reporter, volume and page, and compare its name, court and year with the opinion on file. If nothing is on record at that cite, we report it as not confirmed. That means we couldn't verify it, not that it's wrong: our index is a quarterly snapshot, and recent decisions are expected to be absent, so a miss is a prompt to look rather than a verdict.