Clio Launches Clio Work, Its AI-Powered Legal Workspace, in Australia

Clio, the global leader in legal AI, today launched Clio Work, its AI-powered legal workspace, in Australia. Built on verifiable Australian legal data, Clio Work is now available as a standalone product, or as part of Clio’s Intelligent Legal Work Platform. The release follows launches in New Zealand and Singapore earlier this year.

Since debuting in October 2025, Clio Work has become the fastest-adopted product in company history, now used by tens of thousands of legal professionals around the world. It arrives in Australia as lawyers are hitting the limits of generic tools. Their only alternative has been a patchwork of point solutions. 

According to Clio’s Australian Legal Insights Report 2026, 98% of legal professionals currently use AI in some capacity. However, the most common tools include generic non-legal AI (59%), document drafting or automation (46%), and legal research platforms (44%), and adoption is concentrated in specific use cases or teams rather than woven into end-to-end workflows.

The result is a familiar challenge for legal professionals: AI can produce a first draft, but that draft is only useful if it reflects the matter, the client, the law, and the way the firm actually works. Too often, lawyers are left switching between research and chronology tools, documents, and practice management systems to verify outputs, rebuild context, and turn early analysis into usable work.

Clio Work is designed to close that gap. By bringing together the full context of the matter with authoritative legal content, Clio Work is AI that helps lawyers identify legal issues, pressure-test arguments, uncover risks and opportunities, shape strategy, determine the strongest path forward, and carry that thinking through to drafting.

“Australian firms are embracing AI, but most tools lack the context to deliver maximum impact,” said Denise Farmer, General Manager, APAC, at Clio. ” Clio Work knows the facts and history of the matter, and pairs that knowledge with the authority that actually governs. This is the AI that Australian lawyers have been waiting for.”

An AI workspace for end-to-end legal work

Unlike generic AI tools, Clio Work functions inside the matter. It draws on documents, work history, and relevant law to deliver analysis and drafting that are grounded in the work at hand, not just a prompt. With it, Australian legal professionals can:

• Make sense of a matter fast, pulling the key facts, claims, risks, and dates from the details on file.
• Research Canadian law and see how it applies, finding relevant authority with every result linked to its source.
• Pressure-test strategy before committing, weighing strengths, weaknesses, and risks.
• Draft and refine work product, creating new drafts and improving existing ones.

Complex, multi-step tasks can be delegated through simple instructions and the agentic capabilities at the core of Clio Work will plan and execute them. Outputs are generated in sequence while providing full visibility and control at every stage.

“Australian firms have been among the quickest anywhere to put AI to work,” said Jack Newton, CEO and founder of Clio. “Clio Work presents lawyers with the opportunity to move AI from the margins of the practice into the actual matter. That’s where AI stops being a novelty and starts changing how the work gets done.”

Clio Work is available now across Australia. Learn more at clio.com/au/work.