BriefMark reads your brief, finds every case, statute, rule and regulation, including short cites, Id. and supra, and writes Word's own TA field codes back into the same .docx. Word builds the table.
It works the same on Windows and on a Mac, where Word's own Mark Citation dialog has long been unreliable. Marking a typical brief takes about a second.
Free for briefs with up to 8 authorities. No account, no sign-up. Your document is never uploaded anywhere.
Real output. This is Word's own table, built from a filed Florida Supreme Court answer brief after BriefMark marked it. Subsequent history is folded into the parent case, the parallel citation is kept on one line, and passim is applied automatically.
Word's built-in dialog marks one citation at a time. "Mark All" doesn't help much: short forms slip past it, Id. gets missed, and the categories have to be set by hand on every entry. On a Mac the dialog is worse still: it loses focus, stops responding, and has been that way for years.
So the work is usually done by hand late before a filing deadline, or sent out to a service priced for firms.
| Option | Price | Mac | How it works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Word's Mark Citation | Free | Buggy | Manual, one citation at a time |
| Best Authority | Firm licensing | No | Windows-only add-in |
| Benchly | $600/yr | Yes | Annual contract |
| Clearbrief | $300/mo | Yes | Subscription, or $300 per brief |
| TypeLaw | $1,895/brief | Yes | Done-for-you service |
| BriefMark | $99 once | Yes | Runs in your browser |
Competitor pricing as publicly listed. None of the other Mac options costs less than $600 a year.
The file is read inside the browser tab. BriefMark parses the document, finds the citations and works out which later references belong to which authority.
Every authority appears in a table before anything is written: edit a long form, change a category, uncheck one you don't want marked. Anything it is unsure of is flagged.
You get back the same document with hidden TA fields after each citation and TOA fields under your heading. Word paginates the table itself.
The field codes are the same ones Mark Citation produces, for example { TA \l "Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)" \s "Roe, 410 U.S." \c 1 }, so the table is a native Word table. No add-in to install, nothing to break on the next Word update, and the file stays a normal .docx that opposing counsel can open.
Briefs change up to the deadline. Re-running clears the previous fields before marking again, so nothing doubles up and the page numbers are whatever Word calculates on the final pass.
Citation form in a real filing is messier than any style guide. These are the forms that usually take the most hand-correcting.
Resolved back to the right authority and grouped under one entry, so the page list is complete rather than just the first mention.
cert. denied, rev. denied, aff'd and the rest fold into the parent case on one line instead of becoming a second, nameless entry.
87 Fla. 168, 99 So. 668 stays one authority, and a later short cite to either reporter still finds it.
Am. Amusement Mach. Ass'n v. Kendrick and N.Y. Times Co. v. Sullivan keep their full names instead of breaking at the first period.
The year-first form with a bracketed parallel, such as (2001) 25 Cal.4th 826 [107 Cal.Rptr.2d 841], is read correctly, not treated as two unnamed cases.
A brief that cites the same statute three ways gets one row. Section-first state forms like ยง 768.79, Fla. Stat. are recognized alongside U.S.C. and C.F.R.
Federal and state rules of procedure, including spacing variants of the same rule, plus constitutional provisions whether abbreviated or spelled out.
Law review articles are picked up with author and title and filed under Other Authorities, where they belong.
Plenty of practitioners underline rather than italicize. Both are read as emphasis, and names that wrap across a line are still read whole.
A filed brief's own Table of Authorities makes a good answer key, because a lawyer has already listed every authority in it. BriefMark is measured against filed briefs and their own tables rather than made-up examples.
Every result on this page was confirmed the same way: the marked file was opened in Microsoft Word for Mac, fields updated, and a complete, correctly paginated table built across Cases, Statutes and Constitutional Provisions, with the body text unchanged.
Each citation form that came back wrong is now a fixed regression test that runs before any release. The list grows every time a brief turns up something new.
Your brief stays on your computer. BriefMark runs in the browser tab: the .docx is opened, marked and handed back on your machine, and BriefMark has no server that receives documents.
The only network request the app ever makes is to Gumroad, to check a license key when you activate one. Your document is not part of that request. There is no account, no login, no analytics on the tool itself, and nothing to delete afterwards.
If your firm's IT wants to verify that, they can: open the developer tools, watch the network tab, and mark a brief.
No subscription, no annual contract, no per-brief fee. One license key, unlocked on every machine you work from.
| Plan | Price | Includes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Briefs with up to 8 authorities; every feature, nothing withheld; no account or sign-up | Mark a brief |
| Pro | $99 once, not per year |
Briefs of any size; Mac and Windows, any number of machines; future updates included; 14-day refund if it doesn't work for your briefs | Buy a license |