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Fact checking software for legal publishers: keep guides and blogs current

Fact checking software for legal publishers usually means tools that check briefs and filings. If your problem is public guides and blog posts going out of date as statutes and rulings change, Veritas re-checks the factual claims on those pages.

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Key takeaways

Most tools that turn up for this search check legal documents such as briefs and filings, not a firm's public guides and blog posts.
Legal web content goes stale on known dates: a commencement date moves, a court gives a new judgment.
Veritas re-checks the factual claims on public legal pages and flags the ones that are outdated. A lawyer decides what the page should say.

Search for fact checking software for legal publishers and most results are tools that check legal documents: citations in a brief, quotes in an affidavit, figures in a prospectus. They solve a real problem, but a different one from the one a law-firm website or legal information publisher has.

This guide separates the two jobs, shows with dated primary-source examples how public legal content goes stale, explains what citators do and don't cover, and sets out where Veritas fits and where a lawyer's judgment has to take over.

Two jobs hiding in one search

The results mix two kinds of product. Which one you need depends on what you publish.

Checking legal documents before they are filed or sent

Atticus describes fact-checking for regulated documents such as prospectuses, pleadings, affidavits and witness statements. BriefCatch's RealityCheck, launched in March 2026, is described as flagging hallucinated cases, fabricated quotes and misstated holdings in drafts. Citation checkers listed in the LawNext directory check that citations conform to a style and may flag questionable ones.

Keeping public legal content current

Guides, explainers, practice-area pages and blog posts that stay online for years. We found no dedicated software for this in the results; law-firm marketing agencies offer content-audit guides and services, mostly manual.

If you check briefs, use the first kind of tool. If you run a legal website, the second job is the one this page is about.

How public legal content goes out of date: two dated examples

Law changes on dates that are published in advance or announced by a court. Both examples come from primary sources.

A commencement date that moved

The Procurement Act 2023 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2024, SI 2024/716, made on 22 May 2024, set 28 October 2024 as the date the provisions it covered come into force. A later instrument, SI 2024/959, made and in force on 17 September 2024, replaced that date with 24 February 2025. A guide giving 28 October 2024 as the start date for those provisions was right in May 2024 and wrong from 17 September. We confirmed the dates in the two instruments, not what happened on the day.

A higher court gives judgment

On 1 August 2025 the UK Supreme Court gave its judgment in [2025] UKSC 33, the appeals in Hopcraft v Close Brothers and Johnson v FirstRand, from the Court of Appeal decision at [2024] EWCA Civ 1282. A post summarising the Court of Appeal's ruling needed checking against the Supreme Court's judgment from that date.

In both cases the original page was accurate when written. No error was made; the facts moved.

What the official source itself says about currency

Even the official UK legislation site is careful about this. Its help page says revised legislation on the site may not be fully up to date. It aims to apply new amendments within a maximum of three months of the coming into force date. A "Changes to Legislation" message shows whether there are outstanding changes, and a timeline shows version start dates and whether a version is prospective.

The Procurement Act 2023 page, on the day we read it, said there were currently no known outstanding effects. If the official source puts a caution on its own text, a firm's summary of that text needs one too.

What citators do, and what their pages describe

Legal research has a long-standing currency tool: the citator.

KeyCite (Thomson Reuters)

Its page describes checking whether a case, statute, regulation or administrative decision is still good law, with alerts that monitor their status and an "Overruling Risk" flag for points of law implicitly undermined.

Shepard's (LexisNexis)

Its page describes showing positive and negative treatment from citing cases, and says courts rarely overrule a case on every point of law.

Both pages describe checking authorities through the references that cite them. Neither page describes checking the free-text claims on a firm's blog, such as a date, a threshold or a status. That is an absence on their pages, not a proven limit of the products.

See which facts on your site have gone out of date.

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What is at stake for law firms and legal publishers

Three pressures apply, and they apply to different people.

Professional conduct, for regulated firms

The SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors says: "You ensure that any publicity in relation to your practice is accurate and not misleading." It binds SRA-regulated solicitors and firms in England and Wales when they provide services to the public. It does not bind other publishers.

Search quality

Google's helpful-content guidance says content on topics that could significantly affect people's lives or well-being must be highly accurate and consistent with established expert consensus. Its definition names health, financial stability, safety and the welfare of society, not legal topics explicitly. Legal guidance often touches all of those, so it is a sensible bar.

Reader reliance

People act on legal explainers, and they can't tell a current one from an old one without a clear date.

How Veritas helps with public legal content

Veritas is an autonomous fact-maintenance agent. It runs in the cloud on a schedule and is built for publishers with large archives.

Finds your pages

From sitemaps, sitemap indexes and RSS or Atom feeds.

Pulls out checkable claims

Dates, figures, who holds a role, events, quotes and comparisons. A date such as "comes into force on" is the kind of claim it can check. Opinion and prediction are skipped.

Looks for evidence

Outside your own site, preferring primary sources such as official records, with domains you can list as trusted.

Labels each claim

Supported, contradicted, outdated, misleading or unverifiable. Outdated means true when published and not any more.

Sends confident findings to a queue

With evidence, citations and a suggested rewrite.

Re-checks on a schedule

Fast-moving claims after 7 days, slowly decaying ones after 45, stable ones after 365.

For the same approach on any site, see our guide to outdated content detection.

A review routine for legal content

Keep a calendar of known dates

Commencement dates, scheduled changes and expected judgments for the areas you cover.

On the day of a change

List the pages on that topic and send them to the responsible lawyer the same week.

Weekly

Clear the queue of flagged claims, starting with the most-read pages and the claims readers act on.

Cite the primary source

The instrument, the judgment or the regulator's page, not another firm's summary.

State the jurisdiction and the date in the text,

For example "in England and Wales, as at 31 October 2026". It ages better than "currently".

Let a lawyer decide

Veritas flags a claim and shows the evidence; it doesn't interpret the law or give legal advice.

Honest limitsWhen Veritas isn't the right fit

You need briefs, filings or witness statements checked

Document-checking tools are built for that, and Veritas isn't one.

You need to know if a case is still good law

A citator does that.

You want legal analysis

Veritas checks factual claims, not legal reasoning, and skips opinion and prediction.

Your pages need JavaScript to show their text

Veritas reads the HTML a page serves.

See how the same problem looks for healthcare publishers, or read more about Veritas.

How Veritas works

Finds your pagesReads your sitemaps, Google News sitemaps and RSS or Atom feeds on a schedule.
Pulls out the claimsStatistics, dates, who holds a role, quotes, events. Opinion is skipped.
Checks the evidenceSearches outside your site and prefers primary sources.
Hands editors the fixConfident findings only, with citations and a one-click rewrite.

Frequently asked questions

What is fact checking software for legal publishers?

The phrase covers two kinds of tool. Some check legal documents such as briefs and filings before they are sent. Others keep published guides and blog posts current by re-checking their factual claims. Veritas is the second kind.

How do I keep legal blog posts up to date?

Keep a calendar of known dates, review affected pages when a change takes effect, cite primary sources, and put the jurisdiction and an as-at date in the text. Veritas re-checks factual claims on a schedule and flags the ones that are outdated.

Can software tell me if a statute or case is still current?

Citators such as KeyCite and Shepard's are built to show whether a case, statute or regulation is still good law, according to their own pages. Veritas checks factual claims on your pages, such as dates and figures, and doesn't replace a citator.

Does Veritas give legal advice?

No. Veritas flags factual claims that look outdated, with evidence and a suggested rewrite. A qualified lawyer should decide what the page says.

Do solicitors' publicity rules apply to every legal blog?

The SRA Code's publicity requirement binds SRA-regulated solicitors and firms in England and Wales when they provide services to the public. It doesn't bind other publishers. Ask your regulator or adviser how it applies to you.

Can Veritas check a brief or a filing?

No. Veritas checks the claims on web pages and drafts. Tools built for legal documents handle briefs, affidavits and filings.

Keep every page true

Veritas re-checks the facts across your published pages and hands editors a sourced fix when one goes stale.

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12 sources, checked 31 October 2026