Normalized claim
Time: 11 hours decrease
Anticipated time savings of up to 11 hours per week per lawyer with AI-enabled research tools.
Last evidence check: Jun 1, 2026
Clayton Utz accelerates legal workflow automation for improved client services
Use case typeLegal drafting automationUpdated Jun 13, 2026
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.
- Organization
- Clayton Utz
- Industry
- Legal
- Location
- Australia
- Published
- February 2024
Reported outcomes
11 hours
timeTime & speed
Strategic outcomes
New product / capabilityBuilt ESG case law extraction toolNew product / capabilityAutomated compliance auditing in employment lawSpeed & agilityAutomated document collation and reviewCustomer experience & trustImproved client strategy focus
Why do we believe this?Outcome claims, sources, and evidence checks
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- Clayton Utz
- Provider
- Microsoft
- Maturity
- Production
- Linked source
- itnews.com.au
Deployed Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to build an ESG tool for extracting and structuring insights from climate change case law
Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity supported
Primary read
Use case focus
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- 1Automated Legal Document Drafting
- 2Climate Law ESG Analysis Automation
- 3Government Project Document Collation Automation
- Manual document drafting and review processes consumed significant lawyer hours.
- Large government infrastructure projects required extensive collation and review of documents across multiple regions.
- Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) case law content needed to be extracted and analyzed efficiently from large backlogs.
- Ensuring compliance with employment law required labor-intensive audits across diverse data sources.
- Risk of legal errors and inaccuracies with traditional document generation and review methods.
- Deployed Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to build an ESG tool for extracting and structuring insights from climate change case law.
- Integrated RelativityOne to automate collation and review of documentation for large-scale projects.
- Adopted Lexis+AI and Lexis+ for first-draft document generation, natural language legal research, and litigation strategy support.
- Developed AcCUrate: an AI-driven tool for automated compliance auditing in employment law.
- Implemented robust safeguards for confidentiality and legal risk management in AI workflows.
Technologies
- Saved hundreds of hours of manual effort in document collation and review.
- Lawyers saw significant reduction in time spent on routine drafting and research, enabling focus on client strategy.
- Anticipated time savings of up to 11 hours per week per lawyer with AI-enabled research tools.
- Accelerated backlog review of ESG case law, reducing review times from months to weeks.
Architecture
The system utilizes multiple AI components: Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service powers an ESG tool extracting and summarizing extensive legal case law; RelativityOne automates document collation and review for infrastructure projects; Lexis+AI and Lexis+ are used for research and automated drafting, providing generative AI-driven support; the AcCUrate tool analyzes payroll and compliance data using AI. All these tools are monitored and managed by an internal AI working group to ensure data confidentiality and accuracy.
Sources & evidence1
Evidence: High75/100Evidence strength
- Customer explicitly identified
- Deployment status explicitly supported
- Independent source available
- Quantified outcome available
- Technical implementation details available
- Recent evidence check available
- Last evidence check: Jun 1, 2026.
Live sourceStill referenced
The case's original source is still reachable.
- Cited source last checked Jun 1, 2026 — ok (0/1 broken).
Measures whether this deployment's public evidence persists — not whether the system is still in production.
Type: News ArticlePublished: Feb 19, 2024Publisher: itnews.com.auEvidence: SecondaryConfidence: Low
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