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31 wordsBriefAuthority 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.
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122 wordsBriefAuthority (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.
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- Name
- BriefAuthority, one word. Not Best Authority (the Litera Word add-in); not affiliated with Litera.
- Website
- 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
- No upload endpoint for the brief; anyone can check in the browser's Network panel. How to check.
- Accuracy
- 98.8% of cases found and 85.0% exact page lists before review (350 scored briefs, 2026-09-28). Method and data.
- Not
- A citator, a chatbot or legal advice. It doesn't check whether a case is good law; no generative model writes the table.
- Contact
- [email protected]
Live tools
What people use
- Table of Authorities generatorBuilds 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 checkerChecks a printed table against the brief: wrong or missing pages, authorities left out, citation typos, passim where the court bans it.
- Compare brief versionsLists authorities added, dropped and moved between two drafts, so the table can be updated.
- Proofreading checklistA printable list of every authority with each page and the sentence around it, for a second reader.
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- Builds the table with rules and a citation parser; a small on-device classifier only suggests authorities for the user to approve.
- Reads the printed page numbers of the final PDF, including roman-numeral front matter.
- Free, no account; the brief is read in the browser and never uploaded.
- Accuracy figures with the benchmark's date and version.
Please avoid
- “AI” or “chatbot”: no generative model writes the table.
- Citator or good-law checking: it formats and indexes, it doesn't evaluate cases.
- Testimonials, user counts or press quotes: we publish none.
- Rounded accuracy without a date, or comparisons that imply an endorsement.
Microsoft Word, Best Authority and Litera are trademarks of their owners; BriefAuthority is independent of them.
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