How to Use CaseBriefer: A Full Walkthrough

If you've signed up and aren't sure where to start, here's the full walkthrough. Nothing here is hypothetical, this is exactly what happens when you use the tool.

1. Upload your case

Drop in a case PDF from any jurisdiction. If you've got lecture slides or a unit outline, upload those too, CaseBriefer uses them to work out what your professor actually cares about, rather than generating a generic summary.

You don't need to fill in any details first. CaseBriefer reads the document and auto-detects the case name, citation, subject, and topics before you've typed anything. If it gets something wrong, you can edit it. Most of the time you won't need to.

2. Pick a format

Four options: advanced, standard, short, or exam summary. Advanced is the full brief with detailed reasoning, useful when you're reading a case for the first time and need to actually understand it. Exam summary strips it down to what you'd want staring at you thirty minutes before a closed-book exam. Standard and short sit in between. Pick based on what you'll actually use the note for, not which one sounds most thorough.

3. Generate, then check the citations

Once it's generated, you'll notice small citation markers scattered through the note, like [45]. Click one and CaseBriefer jumps straight to that paragraph in your uploaded PDF. This is the part that matters most: every substantive claim in your note traces back to an exact spot in the actual judgment. If you're ever unsure whether the note captured a point correctly, you're one click away from checking it yourself. No vague "the court held that..." with nothing to back it up.

4. Prep for class in one click

After a note is generated, hit the class prep option. You get a one-line summary of the case, sharp enough to say out loud if you get cold-called, plus a couple of discussion questions that show you've actually thought about the material rather than just skimmed it. Useful the morning of a seminar when you read the case three days ago and need a thirty-second refresher.

5. Stay organised

Save notes into subject folders, tag them by topic. Come exam time, you can pull every note tagged "promissory estoppel" across every folder in one click, rather than scrolling through a semester's worth of notes trying to remember which cases are relevant. This is the difference between a pile of notes and an actual revision tool.

6. Reading summaries (Judge tier)

Not everything you read is a case. Upload a textbook chapter or journal article and CaseBriefer summarises it, keeping the statutory references and case citations intact rather than flattening them into vague prose. Same principle as the case notes: you should be able to trust what it's telling you, and check it if you can't.

7. Problem questions (Judge tier)

Paste in a problem question, the kind you'd get on an exam or in a tutorial. CaseBriefer identifies the legal issues, pulls the relevant cases from your saved notes, and drafts a structured IRAC-style answer for each issue. It's not a substitute for knowing the law yourself, but it's a genuinely useful way to check your own issue-spotting against a second opinion before the real exam.

8. AustLII integration

Since this is built for Australian law students, case lookups and citations link back to AustLII where relevant, so you're not hunting for a case separately after generating a note about it.

Pricing, briefly

The Intern tier is free: five case notes and five reading summaries a month, enough to try the tool properly before committing to anything. The Judge tier unlocks reading summaries and problem question answers at higher limits, along with everything on the free tier. Full pricing is on the pricing page once you're logged in.

That's the whole tool. Upload, generate, check the citations if you want to be sure, then get on with actually studying.