Media mentions.

Above the Law, by Stephen Embry

Technology And AI: Turning Personal Injury Litigation Upside Down

Stephen Embry's Above the Law piece on how AI is turning personal injury litigation upside down names Descrybe as a key player in the shift. His take: if defense firms aren't keeping up, what were once their advantages may well become liabilities as plaintiffs' lawyers grow more sophisticated. Descrybe is part of why.

Stephanie Wilkins, Legaltech Hub

How Much Legal Research Can You Actually Do Via Claude for Legal?

Legaltech Hub’s analysis of Claude for Legal explores what legal research connectors can — and cannot — do. The piece highlights Descrybe as a U.S.-focused legal research engine and platform built on structured primary-law data, offering Claude users case law, statutes and regulations, authority-aware search, legal issue exploration, citation and quote verification, and developing citator/treatment tools.

Descrybe Update

Descrybe Collaborates with Anthropic in Launch of Claude for the Legal Industry

Verified U.S. primary law and the full Descrybe Legal Research Toolkit, now inside Claude. The Descrybe Legal Engine brings 300 million structured primary law records to Claude users, grounding legal research and reasoning in real, citable law — available as a standalone connector or with the full Descrybe platform.

Rhys Dipshan, LAW.COM

Gen AI Disruption Is Hitting Legal Research. Are Legacy Players Under Threat?

In Law.com's look into whether legacy legal research providers are under threat from AI disruption, Reporter Rhys Dipshan spotlights Descrybe as a company building intentionally for the market legacy providers have overlooked, including solo firms, legal aid organizations, in-house teams, students, and researchers, and points to NELLCO's approval across nearly 150 law libraries as a marker of that trust.

Rhys Dipshan, LAW.COM

The Legal Research Renaissance: What’s Behind the Explosion of New Startups?

Descrybe was featured in Law.com's deep dive into the legal research startup renaissance. Reporter Rhys Dipshan spotlights Descrybe as a standout example of what's now possible: a two-person founding team that built a proprietary database covering all federal and state appellate filings, powered by AI editors that run 24/7 processing every case, every citation, and every legal issue.

Chad Main, Technically Legal

Descrybe's Quest to Democratize Legal Research

Kara Peterson and Richard DiBona, the husband-and-wife co-founding team behind Descrybe, discuss the legal research platform they built designed to "democratize access to the law." The discussion explores the unique dynamics of married cofounders and how they are leveraging Generative AI to disrupt a landscape long dominated by high-cost legacy providers.

Descrybe Update

Descrybe Announces Professor Ray Brescia as Strategic Advisor

Leading scholar in legal ethics, access to justice, and law and technology joins Descrybe. Professor Brescia holds the Hon. Harold R. Tyler Chair in Law and Technology at Albany Law School and has spent his career at the intersection of law, public service, and social change.

Descrybe Update

Descrybe Selected as NELLCO E-Resource, Expanding Access to Purpose-Built Legal AI Across Nearly 150 Law Libraries

Descrybe, the purpose-built legal AI platform, has been selected as an approved e-resource by NELLCO Law Library Consortium, Inc. following a thorough committee review. The designation makes Descrybe available to NELLCO's network of nearly 150 law libraries across 33 U.S. states, with international members in Australia, Canada, and the U.K.

Bob Ambrogi, Law Sites

AI Legal Research Startup Descrybe Launches ‘Legal Reasoning’ Tool; Says It Outperforms ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini on Bar Exam Benchmark

Bob Ambrogi covers the launch of DescrybeLM, Descrybe's new legal reasoning engine, and the benchmark study showing it outperformed ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini on 200 bar exam questions — including a close look at the methodology and the caveats Descrybe itself raises.

Descrybe Update

AI Built for Law Outperforms ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini on Legal Reasoning Benchmark

DescrybeLM answered all 200 multistate bar exam questions correctly. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini each missed between 13 and 23 questions — and scored lower on legal reasoning quality across the board. Methodology and scoring rubric published.

Olga V. Mack, Above the Law

'AI Is a Public Health Intervention’ — On Access to Law as a Justice Issue

A conversation with Descrybe co-founder Kara Peterson on why making legal information accessible is a justice issue — and why the access to justice crisis is an opportunity the legal tech industry can't afford to ignore.

Stephen Embry, ABA Law Technology Today

An Affordable AI Tool for Solo and Small Firms

How Descrybe delivers AI-powered legal research at a price point small and solo firms can actually afford — and why it's showing up in law school curricula alongside Westlaw and Lexis+.

Ruby Powers, Power Up Your Practice

Millions of Cases, One Mission: Access to Justice with Descrybe

Kara Peterson and Richard DiBona on how they built Descrybe from the ground up — and why affordable tools can level the playing field for solo and small firms.

Greg Lambert & Marlene Gebauer, The Geek in Review

The Cytator Strikes Back

Kara Peterson and Richard DiBona on Descrybe's issue-level citator, its expansion into 350+ university curricula, and why affordability and accuracy are the foundation of everything they build.

Joe Patric, Above the Law

Legal research curriculum adds new lesson

Above the Law covers Descrybe's entry into the National Society for Legal Technology's curriculum, taught in 350-plus universities across 11 countries. Descrybe joins Lexis+, Westlaw, Bloomberg Law, Fastcase, and HeinOnline, filling the gap left by Casetext after its acquisition by Thomson Reuters.