Legal AI in Microsoft Word — Draft & Review Documents Where You Already Work

Quillio is an AI legal assistant that works inside Microsoft Word through a live add-in, so you can draft, review and refine documents without copy-pasting client text into a separate chatbot or leaving your document. It is built for Australian, New Zealand and UK law, kept current with weekly law updates, and designed for lawyer-led, review-first workflows — you stay in control of every change. Quillio is Australian owned and operated (HQ Sydney), ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, aligned with SOC 2 Type 2, and contractually does not use your data to train models, so confidential matters stay confidential. You can try it free, with no sales call required.

What is legal AI for Microsoft Word?

Legal AI for Word is AI drafting and review that runs inside the Word document itself, through an add-in, rather than in a separate browser chatbot you paste text in and out of. Instead of switching tabs, you open the assistant alongside your document and work on the clause, contract or letter that is already on the page.

The difference is the workflow. With a general-purpose chatbot, you copy a passage out of Word, paste it into the browser, prompt for a change, copy the result back, then reformat it — every time. With AI in the document, the draft, the review and the edit all happen where you are already working.

Quillio is the live, Australian-built option for this. Quillio (LegalAssistant.au) is Australian owned and operated, with its HQ in Sydney, and its Microsoft Word add-in is the flagship of the product. It is built for drafting-heavy lawyers — solicitors, senior associates, principals of small and mid-sized firms, and in-house counsel — who spend their day writing and reviewing in Word.

Stop copy-pasting between a chatbot and your document

The reason a separate chatbot rarely sticks is the friction. Tab-switching, copy-paste fatigue, reformatting after you paste the text back, and the broken concentration of moving between two windows all add up — and a tool that interrupts your flow is a tool that quietly stops getting used.

Quillio removes the loop because the AI is in Word. Draft a clause, review a contract, or tighten a paragraph in place, without leaving the document. A tool that lives where you work is a tool you will actually keep open.

It is also safer by design: every suggestion is a change you accept or edit, not an automatic overwrite. The review-first workflow keeps professional judgement with the lawyer — Quillio helps you draft, review and refine, and you decide what goes into the final document.

What you can do with Quillio inside Word

Quillio brings the core drafting and review tasks into the document, so the work stays in one place. Each of these is a starting point you review and refine — not a finished product the AI commits on your behalf.

When the task is a contract, the same in-document approach lets you draft and review contracts with AI from first draft to final mark-up, without leaving Word.

Built for Australian (and New Zealand) law

Quillio is trained on Australian and New Zealand law and kept current with weekly law updates — it is not a US-centric general model adapted after the fact. It also supports the UK, so firms working across Australia, New Zealand and the UK draft against the jurisdictions they actually practise in.

That matters most inside Word, because the drafting and reviewing happen in the document against the law you practise — not in a generic chatbot with no sense of local drafting standards or terminology.

Is there a legal plug-in for Australian law in Word?

Yes — Quillio is an Australian-built legal AI add-in for Microsoft Word, and you can try it on your own work with a free trial. To be precise about the common "free plug-in" search: Quillio is not a permanently free product, but it does offer a free trial with no sales call required, so you can test the add-in before you commit.

Confidential by design — safe for client documents in Word

The obvious objection to AI drafting is confidentiality: putting client or matter text into a general US chatbot raises real questions about privilege and disclosure. Quillio is built so that confidential matters stay confidential.

• ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified.
• Aligned with SOC 2 Type 2.
• Aligned with IRAP, the Australian Privacy Principles (APP) and GDPR.
• Contractual no-training — a commitment never to train on your client documents, queries or AI outputs.
• Client matter content stored in Australia, with the enterprise option keeping all AI processing in Australia.

As with any security and compliance claim, these should be confirmed in a firm’s own compliance review. You can read more about how Quillio keeps client data confidential on the trust hub.

Works with your practice management system too

The AI is in Word, and the matter is connected. Beyond the add-in, Quillio has two-way integrations so your drafting links back to the matter — Clio, Smokeball, OneLaw, Actionstep, iManage and NetDocuments (LEAP via the Word add-in).

For example, the two-way Smokeball integration means a document you draft in Word stays tied to the right matter, rather than living as a stray file. If you run Clio, Actionstep or one of the others, the same connected workflow applies.

How to get Quillio in Microsoft Word

Quillio is a Microsoft Word add-in: once it is added to Word, the assistant appears alongside your document, and you can draft, review and refine without leaving the page. The add-in is the flagship surface, and Quillio is also available as a desktop app and a mobile app, so you can pick up work wherever you are.

The best way to judge a drafting tool is to use it on real work — so start a free trial and try the AI inside one of your own Word documents. No sales call required.