Caseflow vs JusticeText
JusticeText alternative for criminal defense firms.
JusticeText is one of the best-known body-worn-camera review tools for public defense. Caseflow is built for the same problem from the private-defense side: a small firm with a discovery dump and no paralegal week to spare. Here is how the two compare.
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Where JusticeText is strong
- Deep public-defense footprint: per their site, used by more than 100 public defense agencies, with statewide deployments such as the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy.
- Broad language coverage: their site lists transcription in 80 languages.
- Courtroom prep tools: clipping, redaction, and synced annotations for exhibits.
- An in-platform assistant (they call it Miranda) that answers natural-language questions with timestamps.
Where Caseflow is different
- Self-serve. Sign up, start the 3-day trial, upload a file. No demo call before you can try it.
- One workspace per case, not per file: body cam, jail calls, surveillance, and scanned documents land in the same searchable evidence map.
- Key-event timeline you can export as a clickable CSV. Every row opens the file at that second, so a partner or investigator can review from a spreadsheet.
- Train it on your firm: standing rules and summary corrections feed the next summary, so the output reads the way your office writes.
- Brady-trail audit log on every export, so you can show when a summary or transcript was produced and by whom.
- Published pricing with usage you can see. Trial credit is real processing credit, not a sales call.
Side by side
| Caseflow | JusticeText | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Private criminal-defense firms and solo practitioners | Public defense agencies and defense teams (per their site) |
| How you start | Self-serve sign-up, 3-day free trial | Request a demo; pricing on request (per their site) |
| Pricing | Published plans plus $10/GB after trial credit. See /pricing. | Custom quote (no public price list found as of the review date) |
| Media types | Body cam, jail calls, surveillance, dash cam, scanned documents | Body cam, 911 calls, jail recordings, video and audio evidence (per their site) |
| Transcription | AI transcription with timestamps, searchable across the whole case | AI transcription with timestamps; 80 languages (per their site) |
| Summaries and timeline | AI case brief, per-file summaries, key-event timeline with seek links | Annotations and an AI assistant for timestamped questions (per their site) |
| Exports | PDF brief, Excel workbook, clickable timeline CSV, audit log CSV | Clips and redacted video for exhibits (per their site) |
| Learns your firm | Standing rules and corrections feed future summaries | Not described on their site |
| Security | Per-firm encryption keys (AWS KMS), Postgres row-level security, signed BAA on request | See their security page |
Questions attorneys ask
- Is Caseflow a JusticeText alternative for a small private firm?
- Yes. JusticeText's public material centers on public defense agencies. Caseflow is self-serve and priced for a solo practitioner or a two-to-ten attorney firm that needs discovery reviewed this week.
- Can I try Caseflow without a sales call?
- Yes. 3-day free trial with $20 of processing credit up front and $100 total when the plan starts; card at checkout, cancel anytime.
- Can I move my files if I switch?
- Every transcript, summary, and audit log exports in standard formats (SRT, TXT, PDF, XLSX, CSV, JSON). See the data-portability commitments on /guarantees.
Try it on your own discovery this week.
Upload one file from a live matter. Caseflow returns the transcript, summary, and key-event timeline, and you decide if it earned a place in the workflow. The trial credit is real processing credit, and the card is not charged during the trial.
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Sources: www.justicetext.com/ · justicetext.com/kentucky-dpa/. Product names belong to their owners; Caseflow is not affiliated with them.