# BriefAuthority press kit

Descriptions, facts and images for writing about BriefAuthority. Every figure links to its source; everything here describes the live product.

## In one sentence

BriefAuthority is a free, browser-based tool that builds a brief's Table of Authorities from its final PDF, a scan or the Word file, with printed page numbers, without uploading the brief.

## In one paragraph

BriefAuthority (briefauthority.com) is an independent set of free tools for preparing U.S. legal briefs. Its Table of Authorities generator reads a brief's final PDF, a scanned PDF or the Word .docx in the browser, finds the cases, constitutional provisions, statutes, rules and other authorities, links Id., supra and short forms to their full citations, and lists the printed pages where each is cited, including roman-numeral front matter. The user reviews every entry beside the highlighted citation and exports an editable Word table. It works on a Mac, where Word's own Table of Authorities feature is not supported. Processing stays in the browser with no account and no upload, and accuracy is measured in a published, dated benchmark against tables written by counsel.

## Fact sheet

- Name: BriefAuthority, one word. Not Best Authority, the Litera Word add-in, and not affiliated with Litera.
- Website: https://briefauthority.com
- Launched: September 24, 2026
- Price: free; no account, no install, no authority limit.
- Runs on: any modern browser, on Mac or Windows.
- Reads: PDFs with a text layer, scanned PDFs (on-device OCR) and Word .docx files.
- Privacy: the brief is read in the browser tab; there is no upload endpoint for it. Self-check: https://briefauthority.com/security-and-privacy
- Accuracy: dated results and method at https://briefauthority.com/table-of-authorities-benchmark
- Court presets: 36 (the Supreme Court, every federal circuit and 20 state court systems).
- Not a citator, a chatbot or legal advice. It does not check whether a case is good law, and no generative model writes the table.
- Contact: hello@briefauthority.com

## Live tools

- [Table of Authorities generator](https://briefauthority.com/table-of-authorities-generator): builds the table from the final PDF, a scan or the .docx; exports an editable Word table or writes it into the user's own .docx.
- [Table of Authorities checker](https://briefauthority.com/table-of-authorities-checker): checks a printed table against the brief.
- [Compare brief versions](https://briefauthority.com/compare-brief-versions): authorities added, dropped and moved between two drafts.
- [Proofreading checklist](https://briefauthority.com/table-of-authorities-proofreading-checklist): every authority with each page and the sentence around it.

## Images and files

Free to use in coverage of BriefAuthority. Please don't alter the product output.

- Real, unedited table from a public Supreme Court brief: https://briefauthority.com/images/greer-table-of-authorities.webp (WebP, 1237 × 1600)
- The same table as the exported Word file: https://briefauthority.com/downloads/greer-table-of-authorities.docx
- The source brief (Greer v. United States): https://briefauthority.com/samples/greer-v-united-states-merits-brief.pdf
- Social card: https://briefauthority.com/images/og.png (PNG, 1200 × 630)
- Logo mark: https://briefauthority.com/images/logo-512.png (PNG, 512 × 512), https://briefauthority.com/icon.svg (SVG)

## Notes for writers

- BriefAuthority uses rules and a citation parser, not a chatbot. A small on-device classifier only suggests authorities for the user to approve.
- It formats and indexes. It is not a citator and does not tell anyone whether a case is good law.
- Accuracy figures belong to a dated release; please cite the benchmark page with its date rather than a rounded number.
- We publish no testimonials, user counts or press quotes, and we ask that coverage not imply any.
- Microsoft Word, Best Authority and Litera are trademarks of their owners; BriefAuthority is independent of them.

Contact: hello@briefauthority.com. A person answers. Not a law firm; nothing here is legal advice.