The real AI risk isn’t hallucinations—it’s not using AI at all. That’s the counterintuitive argument from Ross Guberman, founder and CEO of BriefCatch, who tells hosts Todd Smith and Jody Sanders that lawyers ignoring AI may be approaching malpractice territory. BriefCatch now contains roughly 16,000 editing rules, up from about 10,000 in 2021. Ross introduces two new BriefCatch Next products: RealityCheck, an anti-hallucination tool that uses a red-yellow-green system to verify case citations and quotations against actual opinions; and CiteCheck, which identifies and corrects Bluebook citation errors. He also covers BriefCatch’s early 2026 acquisition of WordRake and reveals that courts—despite their sanctions orders against lawyers—are quietly and actively deploying AI themselves.
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- 0:00 Introduction: Ross Guberman Returns to the Show
- 5:45 What BriefCatch Does Inside Microsoft Word
- 11:30 AI Competence and Legal-Writing Risks
- 17:10 Reality Check Rollout and Court Interest
- 22:55 Verifying Citations, Quotations, and Case Descriptions
- 28:40 Cite Check and Bluebook Corrections
- 34:20 Legal Tech as a Tool for Solo and Small-Firm Lawyers
- 40:05 Writing Conventions and Legal-Writing Preferences
- 45:45 BriefCatch’s Acquisition of WordRake
- 51:30 AI in Law Schools, Courts, and Legal Practice
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