From precedent to first draft in minutes.
Legal document automation has moved past fill-in-the-blank templates. Quillio drafts engagement letters, advices, contracts, and court documents from your precedents and your instructions — in your firm's voice, with sources cited — inside the systems you already use.
Legal document automation is software that creates legal documents for you instead of drafting each one from scratch. It spans two approaches: fixed templates that merge in your matter data, and AI that drafts from your instructions and precedents. Quillio is the AI drafting layer — it produces a first draft of an engagement letter, advice, contract, affidavit, or court document in your firm's voice, with citations to the law or the source material, ready for the lawyer to review and own. It works inside the systems you already use (Clio, Smokeball, OneLaw, Actionstep, iManage, NetDocuments) and is built for Australian and New Zealand document types — not US court forms.
What changes
Lawyers spend a large share of the week drafting — and most of it starts by hunting for the last similar precedent, stripping out the old matter's details, and re-typing. The template is sometimes out of date, the costs-disclosure wording drifts between fee-earners, and a stray copy-paste leaves the wrong party name in clause 3.
Quillio drafts the document from your precedent and the matter details in minutes — in your firm's voice, with a first-pass costs-disclosure section for the lawyer to check and the parties correct — and cites the law or source behind each part, so the lawyer reviews, verifies, and finalises it instead of building from scratch.
From upload to output
Give Quillio the instructions and the source
Point it at your precedent or template and the matter details, and say what you need — or just describe the document you want in plain English.
Quillio drafts it
A complete first draft in your firm's voice and structure — engagement letters, advices, contracts, affidavits, court documents — built for the AU/NZ document types you actually produce.
Every draft is source-cited
Each statement of law or fact comes with the authority or source document behind it, so the lawyer can verify quickly — the direct answer to AI's hallucination risk.
The lawyer reviews and owns it
Quillio produces the draft; the lawyer checks, refines, and signs off. Responsibility for the document stays with the lawyer — Quillio gives a faster, cited starting point, not a black box.
What you can do with Quillio legal document automation
- Draft engagement letters and costs disclosures following the cost-disclosure rules in your jurisdiction
- Draft letters of advice in your firm's voice
- Generate contracts, leases, and agreements from your own precedents
- Draft affidavits, pleadings, and court documents for AU/NZ jurisdictions
- Produce wills, EPAs (enduring powers of attorney), and estate documents from your templates
- Build a first draft from instructions when no fixed template fits
- Keep clauses and precedents consistent across every fee-earner
- Export straight to Word or into your matter file
A real example
A new client needs a shareholders' agreement, and you want a first draft on your firm's precedent before the partner reviews it — today, not next week.
Point Quillio at your shareholders' agreement precedent and give it the deal terms — parties, shareholdings, board composition, drag and tag rights, pre-emptive rights.
In minutes: a complete first draft on your precedent with the deal terms built in, the clauses that need a decision flagged for the partner, and each non-standard provision annotated with the reason — ready for the lawyer to review and refine before the partner signs it off, instead of three hours building it from the last deal — the same flow whether it is a contract, an advice, or an affidavit.
Documents, jurisdictions, and practice areas
Document types
- Engagement and costs-disclosure letters
- Letters of advice
- Contracts, leases, and agreements
- Affidavits and witness statements
- Pleadings and statements of claim
- Wills, EPAs, and estate documents
- Conveyancing documents
- Firm precedents and templates
Jurisdictions
- NSW
- VIC
- QLD
- WA
- SA
- TAS
- ACT
- NT
- Federal
- NZ
Practice areas
- Commercial
- Property
- Litigation
- Wills & Estates
- Family
- Employment
Legal Document Automation FAQs
What is legal document automation?
Legal document automation is software that creates legal documents for you instead of drafting each one from scratch. It ranges from fixed templates that merge in your matter data to AI that drafts from your instructions and precedents. Quillio is the AI drafting layer — it produces a first draft in your firm's voice, with sources cited, that the lawyer reviews and owns.
How is this different from the document automation in my practice management system?
Systems like Clio, Smokeball, OneLaw, and Actionstep do template-and-merge-field automation — excellent for high-volume, low-variation documents on a fixed template. Quillio adds generative drafting: it drafts from your instructions and precedents when a fixed template cannot anticipate the content, and it works inside those systems through two-way integrations. Use both — templates for the standard, Quillio for the bespoke.
Will the documents be accurate, given AI hallucination risk?
Every Quillio draft comes with source citations — the authority or source document behind each statement — so you can verify before relying on it. The lawyer reviews and owns the final document; Quillio gives a cited first draft, not an unverifiable answer. Built for AU/NZ law, it understands the document types and citations Australian and New Zealand courts expect.
Does it draft Australian and New Zealand document types, or just US forms?
AU/NZ document types — engagement and costs-disclosure letters following the Uniform Law structure, advices, AU/NZ contracts and leases, court forms and pleadings, wills and estate documents. This is a real difference from US-built tools whose form libraries assume US jurisdictions.
Can it draft in our firm's templates and voice?
Yes. Quillio drafts from your precedents and in your firm's voice, not a generic template. You keep your house style and standard positions; Quillio fills in the matter-specific content and flags anything that needs a decision.
How is this different from workflow automation, contract management, or document review?
Document automation is about creating documents — drafting them. Legal workflow automation is the wider process around a matter (intake, deadlines, routing, review). Contract management focuses on the contract lifecycle specifically. Reviewing documents you receive is the reverse direction — see /use-cases/document-review. Document automation is the create-a-document side.
Is our data secure?
Quillio holds ISO 27001:2022 certification and a SOC 2 Type II attestation, and is aligned to IRAP, the Australian Privacy Principles, and GDPR. Your documents are stored in Australia and are never used to train any model; an enterprise option keeps all AI processing in Australia. Quillio is Australian owned and operated, headquartered in Sydney.
Try it on a current document.
The fastest way to see Quillio draft is to point it at one of your precedents and a live matter, and watch the first draft appear in your firm's voice in minutes. The free trial requires no sales call.
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