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Published 19 Feb 2024· via itnews.com.au· News article

Clayton Utz accelerates legal workflow automation for improved client services

Clayton Utz · Legal · Australia

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Summary

Clayton Utz, one of Australia's largest law firms, has implemented a comprehensive suite of legal automation tools using Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, RelativityOne, and Lexis+AI. The firm automates tasks including research, document drafting, contract review, regulatory reporting, and litigation strategy support. Specialized tools such as an ESG content extraction tool, developed in partnership with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, and the AcCUrate compliance auditing solution have streamlined case law review and employment law compliance auditing respectively. Through the integration of generative AI, the firm has achieved significant efficiency gains in producing first drafts, conducting research, and automating document collation for government projects. Proprietary safeguards have been implemented to ensure client data confidentiality and document accuracy. These innovations allow Clayton Utz's lawyers to spend less time on manual tasks and deliver improved outcomes to clients, while continuing to evaluate and advance AI capabilities across legal domains.

The problem

  1. 01Manual document drafting and review processes consumed significant lawyer hours.
  2. 02Large government infrastructure projects required extensive collation and review of documents across multiple regions.
  3. 03Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) case law content needed to be extracted and analyzed efficiently from large backlogs.
  4. 04Ensuring compliance with employment law required labor-intensive audits across diverse data sources.
  5. 05Risk of legal errors and inaccuracies with traditional document generation and review methods.

What they built

  1. 01Deployed Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to build an ESG tool for extracting and structuring insights from climate change case law.
  2. 02Integrated RelativityOne to automate collation and review of documentation for large-scale projects.
  3. 03Adopted Lexis+AI and Lexis+ for first-draft document generation, natural language legal research, and litigation strategy support.
  4. 04Developed AcCUrate: an AI-driven tool for automated compliance auditing in employment law.
  5. 05Implemented robust safeguards for confidentiality and legal risk management in AI workflows.

Reported results

  1. 01Saved hundreds of hours of manual effort in document collation and review.
  2. 02Lawyers saw significant reduction in time spent on routine drafting and research, enabling focus on client strategy.
  3. 03Anticipated time savings of up to 11 hours per week per lawyer with AI-enabled research tools.
  4. 04Accelerated backlog review of ESG case law, reducing review times from months to weeks.
  • Built ESG case law extraction tool
  • Automated compliance auditing in employment law
  • Automated document collation and review
  • Improved client strategy focus

Source

itnews.com.au

News article · 19 Feb 2024

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How this deployment compares

Computed from the library · data 10 Nov 2026

This is the only Clayton Utz deployment in the library. It is one of 7 legal drafting automation deployments, 5 of them in Legal.

Clayton Utz in the library

The only Clayton Utz deployment in the library

Still referencedThe source is still online, but no newer Clayton Utz record has appeared yet.

Same pattern, whole library

One of 7 legal drafting automation deployments

  • Legal accounts for 5 of them (71%), more than any other industry.
  • It is the earliest record of this pattern in the library.
  • Only 0 of the 7 put a number on the result (0%).
Provider mix
  • Microsoft71%
  • AWS14%
  • IBM14%
Most-used technology
  • Azure OpenAI 2
  • Copilot 1
  • RelativityOne 1
  • Lexis+AI 1
  • Lexis+ 1
  • Azure AI 1

Outlined: used in this record.

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Legal drafting automation analysis

Results against peers

What peers report

  • Time & speed290 figures, all industries · middle half 30%–76%50%median reduction
  • Customer experience51 figures, all industries · middle half 20%–90%25%median increase

Peer figures are as reported by their sources; percentage claims only.

How we checked this record

Evidence tier: verified

A primary source with a named customer and a supported deployment status.

Named organization
Clayton Utz
Who published the source
A third party (press or analyst)
Deployment status
Production (confidence 95%)
Quantified result
The source reports at least one figure
Source link
Online at last check

Last re-checked 13 Jun 2026.

This record is evidence for

Insight · industryLegal dossierOne of 82 Legal deployments. See which patterns dominate there and what they report.Insight · patternLegal drafting automation7 deployments share this pattern. See where it is used and how it is built.Trend · momentumQuiet pattern0 new deployments in the last six months, against 0 in the six before.

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