Jacqueline Schafer
Jacqueline Schafer is the Founder and CEO at Clearbrief and serves as a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School. She previously co-founded a childcare platform startup and has held roles including Assistant Attorney General at the Alaska Department of Law, Corporate Counsel at Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, and Senior Director, Program Counsel at Casey Family Programs. Her expertise centers on legal innovation and technology, particularly in litigation drafting and AI tools for the legal industry.
GeekWire Awards 2024 Startup of the Year Finalists Auger, CalmWave, Clearbrief, Oleria, and Yoodli Showcase AI-Driven Innovations
The five finalists for the GeekWire Awards’ Startup of the Year—Auger, CalmWave, Clearbrief, Oleria, and Yoodli—are all leveraging AI to enhance their products and internal processes, utilizing automation and AI-driven insights across diverse sectors such as supply chain, healthcare, legal, web3, and communications. Their CEOs shared how AI empowers their companies to innovate and improve customer experiences.
Seattle Legal Tech Startup Clearbrief Raises $4M to Boost AI Software for Lawyers
Seattle-based legal tech startup Clearbrief raised $4 million to enhance its AI-powered software that helps lawyers find, verify, and summarize facts in legal documents. The software, used by hundreds of law firms and Microsoft’s legal team, generates litigation exhibits and detects citation errors.
Clearbrief Raises $3.5M Seed Round Led by Reign Ventures with Court Lorenzini, Jack Newton and Others
Clearbrief, a product that strengthens legal writing, has raised a total of $3.5 million in seed funding led by Reign Ventures and announced on August 30, 2021; new investors include Court Lorenzini, Jack Newton, Amy Weaver, Hadi Partovi and Lata Setty. The company previously attracted early backers such as Mark Britton, Bryan Garner and Bill Neukom.
Clearbrief raises $3.5M seed to scale AI that flags misrepresentations in litigation briefs
Clearbrief, a Seattle startup, raised a $3.5 million seed round led by Reign Ventures to expand its AI-powered tool that uses NLP to flag unsupported or misrepresented statements in litigation documents and surface underlying evidence. CEO Jacqueline Schafer says the software helps lawyers and judges quickly verify claims, improve strategy, and increase access to legal materials as courts move online and adopt new filing rules.
Clearbrief raises $1.2M from Sequoia, Madrona and Avvo founder to commercialize AI legal-writing tool
Seattle startup Clearbrief raised $1.2 million from investors including Sequoia Capital, Madrona Venture Group and Avvo founder Mark Britton to commercialize AI-powered legal writing software that checks sentences against supporting evidence and integrates with Microsoft Word and the cloud.
Organizations
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Columbia Law School Lecturer in Law 2025–present · current
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Clearbrief Founder and CEO 2020–present, CEO · current
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Childcare Platform Startup Co-founder, General Counsel, Ops, and Head of Partnerships 2019–2020 · past
Education
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Boston University School of Law J.D. cum laude · 2008
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University of Pennsylvania B.A. magna cum laude, English and French
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New York University School of Law Visiting Student
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EMLYON Business School, Lyon-Ecully (semester study abroad)
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The Lawrenceville School
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Boston University School of Law Doctor of Law - JD
