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CiteProof is offering lawyers a tool to check legal briefs for fabricated citations and misquoted court opinions, using searches of public court records rather than another AI model. The company says checks start free, with paid plans for deeper and bulk reviews. That makes it a practical, if not especially cheap, safeguard in a profession where a bogus case citation can have serious consequences.

What happened The Register reports that CiteProof checks citations and statutes against public court records. The company says it uses deterministic searches, not large language models or probabilistic models, to look for evidence that a cited source is real. It also says the tool does not assess whether a legal argument is sound. Free users can run individual checks. Paid options add detailed verification reports, quotation checking and bulk scanning. The Register says a single brief costs $49, a five-brief bundle costs $199, and a law-firm plan for up to 200 reviews costs $499 a month. Why it matters

Discuss: Would you trust a focused, non-AI citation checker as a backstop, or should lawyers rely on source-by-source review even when AI drafted the brief?

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