BriefCatch has appointed Yoel Lavie as chief operating officer, following the legal technology company's USD $6 million Series A funding round.
Lavie will oversee operations as BriefCatch expands its legal writing platform after acquiring WordRake and launching RealityCheck, a tool designed to check legal authorities and citations before court filings.
He joins from smart TV software group VIDAA, where he was general counsel. He previously held senior roles at cybersecurity company Rezilion, rising from chief of staff to chief operating officer and helping guide the business through its sale to GitLab.
During Lavie's time at Rezilion, the company secured USD $30 million in Series A funding. Earlier in his career, he worked as an M&A and technology lawyer at Gornitzky & Co, advising technology companies in fintech and cybersecurity. He later became a partner at Epstein Rosenblum Maoz and co-founded a cybersecurity start-up focused on security data infrastructure.
The appointment brings in an executive with both legal training and software operating experience as legal technology providers seek to address concerns among law firms and in-house legal teams about the reliability of generative AI tools.
BriefCatch has been building its position in legal writing and verification tools. The recent launch of RealityCheck reflects broader demand for products that help lawyers identify hallucinated or unsupported citations, an issue facing greater scrutiny as AI-assisted drafting becomes more common in legal work.
Founded by Ross Guberman, BriefCatch says its software is used by tens of thousands of law firms, courts, agencies and legal professionals. The platform integrates with Microsoft Word and focuses on drafting support for legal documents.
Guberman highlighted Lavie's mix of legal and operating experience in announcing the appointment.
"Most COOs understand SaaS. Few understand lawyers," said Ross Guberman, founder and chief executive officer of BriefCatch. "Yoel is both - a practicing M&A attorney who became an operator and helped scale and exit a SaaS company. That combination is rare, and it's exactly what BriefCatch needs at this stage of growth."
The hire comes during a period of expansion for BriefCatch. Alongside the Series A round, the company acquired WordRake, whose editing technology has been used in professional writing tools, broadening BriefCatch's product base in legal drafting and editing.
Legal AI
Legal AI companies have attracted investment as firms look to automate parts of research, drafting and review. Adoption, however, has been tempered by caution around accuracy, professional responsibility and the risk that AI systems may generate convincing but false legal references.
That tension has created an opening for companies offering narrower tools for review, drafting support and verification rather than fully autonomous legal work. BriefCatch's focus on writing quality and citation checking places it within that segment of the market.
Lavie said the company's emphasis on supporting, rather than replacing, legal professionals helped drive his decision to join.
"Legal technology is evolving quickly, but the stakes around accuracy, judgment and trust in the legal profession haven't changed," said Lavie. "What stood out to me about BriefCatch is its focus on building tools that strengthen legal work without replacing the professional judgment behind it. That's what makes the platform so well positioned for this next stage of growth."