AI Legal Tech
9 productsAI legal technology tools use artificial intelligence to assist with contract review, legal research, document analysis, and drafting. These platforms are transforming how Australian lawyers work, offering significant productivity gains.
MatterLayer
The AI operating system that runs your practice while you apply judgement
MatterLayer is a bold new vision for how law firms operate — an AI-powered operating system that sits across your entire practice stack and runs autonomously in the background. Rather than replacing your existing tools, MatterLayer connects to your practice management system (Clio, LEAP, Smokeball, Actionstep, 3E, Aderant), document management (iManage, NetDocuments), email, accounting, and CRM — then applies AI continuously across every matter, every night. By morning, the system has already processed emails, scored matter risk, found unbilled time, reconciled trust accounts, and surfaced the decisions that genuinely need a lawyer's brain. Currently in closed beta with 10 founding firms ahead of an October 2026 launch, MatterLayer represents a fundamentally different approach to legal technology: the system does the work, and you apply judgement.
Mary Technology
AI Fact Management System for litigation
Mary Technology is an Australian legal tech startup founded in Sydney in 2023, developing an AI-powered Fact Management System for litigation lawyers. The platform helps lawyers manage facts, analyse documents, and create legal chronologies from unstructured documents including PDFs, emails, chat logs, and handwritten notes. It integrates with Smokeball and is priced on a usage-based model.
Harvey AI
Enterprise AI for legal research, contracts, and due diligence
Harvey AI is an enterprise-grade AI platform designed for legal and professional services, backed by OpenAI. It assists top law firms and in-house legal teams with legal research, deal management, due diligence, fund formation, contract analysis, and complex multi-step workflows. The platform integrates with iManage and NetDocuments and provides enterprise-grade security including SAML SSO and audit logs.
Luminance
AI-powered contract review and due diligence platform
Luminance is an AI-powered legal intelligence platform that uses machine learning to read, understand, and analyse legal documents. It is used for due diligence, contract review, and legal document analysis by law firms and corporate legal departments globally. The platform supports over 80 languages and integrates with major document management systems.
Spellbook AI
AI contract drafting and review directly inside Microsoft Word
Spellbook AI is a legal AI platform designed for transactional lawyers, providing contract drafting, review, and research capabilities directly within Microsoft Word. It uses advanced large language models (reportedly including models from OpenAI and Anthropic — verify current model details with the vendor), with Zero Data Retention and SOC 2 Type II compliance. The platform is used by over 4,000 teams across 80+ countries.
Lexis+ AI (LexisNexis)
AI-powered legal research and drafting grounded in authoritative Australian content
Lexis+ AI is a legal AI workflow solution for drafting, research, and analysis, combining the LexisNexis Protégé™ AI Assistant with authoritative legal sources. It provides two AI experiences: Legal AI grounded in LexisNexis content, and General AI for broader reasoning. The platform is specifically tailored for the Australian legal market with local data hosting and integration with CaseBase Case Citator® for Australian citation validation.
Thomson Reuters CoCounsel
Professional AI legal assistant built on 174 years of Thomson Reuters trusted content
CoCounsel is Thomson Reuters' professional-grade AI legal assistant, built on 174 years of trusted legal content and powered by 1,000+ AI and data science professionals. It delivers AI-assisted legal research grounded in Westlaw and Practical Law, advanced document analysis (review, compare, summarise, timeline creation), drafting automation with built-in proofing, and knowledge search across your own work product. CoCounsel holds ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification for AI management systems — the first major legal AI platform to achieve this standard. For Australian firms, all customer prompts, content, and outputs are hosted and processed locally in Australia, addressing data sovereignty and compliance requirements. A dedicated local team of AI and legal specialists supports Australian customers.
Litera Kira
AI contract intelligence with 90%+ accuracy for due diligence
Litera Kira is an AI-powered contract intelligence platform that enables legal teams to analyse contracts with high accuracy. It combines proprietary AI trained on 45,000 lawyer hours with generative AI, providing governance controls that allow organisations to manage GenAI use within their risk tolerance. The platform is used by prominent Australian law firms including Allens.
Neota Logic
No-code AI platform for automating legal services and workflows
Neota Logic is a no-code AI platform for automating legal services, orchestrating complex workflows, and building expert systems. It enables legal teams to create and deploy applications that automate expertise, documents, and processes without writing code. The platform is a member of the Australian Legal Technology Association (ALTA) and has partnerships with Australian universities and legal organisations.