About Briefpoint

Discovery sucked. So we built Briefpoint.

Nathan Walter was a litigator who kept watching parties settle — not because they owed anything, but because proving it would cost more than paying. One mediation made that impossible to ignore. He taught himself to code and built Briefpoint with Chris Maffin, a former lead engineer at Relativity, so cases can resolve on their merits instead of their litigation budgets.

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What we believe

Tech should amplify litigators — not get in their way.

Litigators deserve tech that’s easy to use.

Briefpoint is tailored to the drafting processes you’ve already honed — no steep learning curve, because you already know how to use it.

Top talent stays where work is meaningful.

Attrition rises when hours vanish into rote drafting. Briefpoint automates the repetitive work so your team can do the high-impact work they joined to do.

Automating busywork improves work product.

Attention to detail is finite. Automate the foundations and spend your precision on arguments — not formatting and boilerplate.

Justice shouldn’t hinge on attorneys’ fees.

Streamlined responses keep costs predictable, so cases resolve on the merits — not because billing pressure forces early settlements.

Our story

Built by someone who lived the problem.

The moment came eight hours into a mediation. Nathan had brought the receipts — opposing counsel had no case, and everyone in the room knew it. It didn’t matter. With his own clients out of the room, opposing counsel said the quiet part out loud: I don’t care that I don’t have a case. I’ll go to court, bang my fist on the table, and you’ll beg me to pay what I’m asking for today. He was right. He walked away with the money — because defending the case would have cost more than settling it.

The harder realization was where that leverage came from: attorneys’ fees — and discovery is the tool that generates them. Every question served forces the other side to spend attorney time answering it, so a clever lawyer just keeps asking — papering the other side until the litigation budget is gone and they’re sitting at a settlement table they can’t get up from. Nathan looked at his own fees and didn’t like the math: he was part of the machine that made parties settle cases they should have won.

So he taught himself to code from YouTube videos, built prototypes, and cold-called attorneys by bar number until enough of them said they’d pay for it. Briefpoint launched in June 2022 — before the ChatGPT wave — built on a simple goal: keep what discovery is for, the fair exchange of information, and delete the bleed-dry component. When drafting takes minutes instead of hours, cases resolve on their merits — and both sides can afford to see them through.

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