New online tool will check lawyers' sloppy AI-written briefs since they can't seem to be bothered
A new online service aims to catch fake legal citations and misquoted court opinions in documents prepared with help from artificial intelligence.
By The Register
A new online service aims to catch fake legal citations and misquoted court opinions in documents prepared with help from artificial intelligence.
CiteProof checks legal briefs and court filings for references that may have been fabricated or incorrectly quoted. The service is intended to identify problems before documents are submitted to court.
Users on the free tier can run individual checks on citations or statutes. Paid plans offer more detailed verification reports, quotation checking and bulk scanning.
CiteProof says its checking system does not use artificial intelligence. Instead, it carries out direct searches of public court records to establish whether cited cases and legal authorities exist.
The company says only strings extracted from citations are sent from its servers to CourtListener, a public legal research platform used to check the references.
CiteProof has acknowledged that some “vibe-coding” was involved in building the service, but says no AI is used to assess the legal briefs themselves.
The company describes the platform as a safeguard for lawyers who use generative AI to help draft documents. Its stated aim is to catch made-up citations before they appear on a court docket.
A single brief costs $49 to check outside the limited free option. A five-brief package is priced at $199, while a plan for law firms covering up to 200 reviews costs $499 a month.