Open each matter with authority
Capture the legal issue, the governing authority, the responsible office, and key deadlines from day one.
Government law software that keeps the record intact
Keep records and decisions together
Source documents, research, drafts, approvals, and final work sit in one record.
Track court and agency dates
Templates, tasks, and rules-driven calendaring based on courts, claims, and agencies.
Support non-billable work and reporting
Configure case management without billing where appropriate for visibility and reporting.
Triage new work before it backlogs
Work arrives as requests, claims, investigations, and statutory obligations, often before anyone owns it or knows what comes next. Clio puts each one on a structured record beside its deadlines and any docket alerts, so you decide what moves first and who takes it.
- Log each request. Intake forms capture the requesting office, the issue, and the urgency.
- Assign the right office. Case management sets priority, ownership, and the next step, so nothing disappears.
- Spot stalled work. Tasks and matter stages show who owns the next obligation and what is waiting.
Calculate deadlines against the governing rules
Rules-driven calendaring covers hundreds of US courts and the statutory windows for claims against public entities, including the claim presentation window and the entity response period. Calculated dates go on the matter with the rule behind each one. Your office verifies and meets every date.
- Keep public data secure. Your office’s data is stored with enterprise-grade security.
- Sync with Outlook or Gmail. Court dates appear on the calendar your team already checks.
- Plan internal dates. Your office sets the reporting and public-record dates that apply to its own calendar.
Catch new filings and orders
Docket monitoring alerts your team to new filings, orders, and schedule changes. Retrieved documents save to the right matter folder, named and filed. Connect the court case to the matter once, then review each new order and assign the tasks that follow.
- Track schedule changes. A rescheduled hearing arrives as an alert on the matter.
- Read orders in context. Each retrieved document sits beside the rest of the matter record.
- Look up court records. Search federal and state records without leaving the matter.
Research public-law issues with cited authority
Legal research covers public records and open-meetings law, the Federal Tort Claims Act, and state government claims acts, each answer linked for your team to open and verify. Research runs beside your matters, documents, and drafts, so you weigh the authority with the record in view.
- Start from primary law. Answers draw on statutes, cases, and secondary sources across all 50 states.
- Upload local law. Query your office’s own charter or ordinances with the rest of the research.
- Brief the requesting office. Turn cited research into advice for the department that asked.
Route approvals and handoffs through the matter
Advice, filings, and settlement positions can need more than one sign-off, and staff may change before the work is final. Task checklists set each review step and its owner, and case management holds the documents, notes, and activity when a matter is reassigned. You approve what goes out.
- Name each reviewer. Supervisors and program owners find the draft on their own task list.
- Hand off with context. New owners open the matter with its deadlines, documents, and history intact.
- Show the decision path. Completed review tasks record who signed off and when.
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Clio has proven to be less expensive and more user friendly than our prior system.
Attorney, Hamilton, Michaelson & Hilty, LLP
Government law software FAQs
What is government law software?
Government law software helps public legal teams manage matters from intake through final action, including the legal work, deadlines, approvals, and reporting involved along the way. The right system keeps the matter history, responsibilities, and next steps visible throughout. See Clio in action.
What should government legal case management software include?
At minimum, look for structured intake that captures the requesting office, the issue, and the governing authority; a clear record of who owns the matter and what happens next; documents, research, drafts, and approvals held together; deadlines traceable to the notice or statute behind them; an approval path that can be assigned and tracked; reporting on effort and outcome whether or not the work is billed; and the option to run matters without billing at all. The exact mix depends on whether the office litigates, advises, or does both. See Clio in action.
Which government legal teams can use Clio?
Clio can support configurable matter workflows for public defense, prosecution, agency counsel, enforcement, claims, investigations, municipal work, and civil matters. See Clio in action.
Can Clio work for a legal team that doesn’t bill clients?
Yes. A matter can be marked non-billable, which keeps it off every billing screen and prevents an invoice being raised against it. Time still records, at zero rate, so your office can report on hours worked, by whom, and against which matter or program. Productivity and utilization reporting works from that record without an invoice ever being generated. See Clio in action.
Can Clio preserve a matter through reassignment?
Yes. Clio can preserve a matter through reassignment by keeping its documents, notes, deadlines, ownership, and activity connected to the matter, helping an authorized new owner understand the history and what comes next. See Clio in action.
Can Clio track government legal deadlines?
Yes. Because public-law litigation runs on the civil procedure code, your court’s general civil rules cover it without extra setup. Clio also has rule sets for statutory claims against public entities, calculating the claim presentation window, the entity’s response period, the late claim application, and the petition for relief. Administrative boards are covered too, and if an agency your office appears before is not yet included, it can be built. Your office sets the reporting and public-record dates that apply to its own calendar. See Clio in action.
Can Clio help make sense of a high-volume matter?
Yes. Clio’s legal AI can summarize the records on a matter, whichever department or outside party they came from, and build a chronology from what it finds. It can also prioritize what needs attention across an office’s open matters. Every summary stays linked to the source material, so your office can check any point before relying on it. See Clio in action.
Does Clio meet government security requirements?
Clio is certified to the SOC 2 Type II standard, with the reports available to review. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest to FIPS 140-2. Matter permissions determine who can open a matter, and firm data is not used to train third-party models. Your office remains responsible for its own procurement and records obligations. See Clio in action.
Does Clio include research for government legal work?
Yes. Clio’s legal AI researches the US Code and state statutory codes, the Code of Federal Regulations and state administrative codes across all 50 states, and agency decisions from bodies including the Merit Systems Protection Board, the EEOC federal sector, and the GAO. It covers public records and open meetings law, the Federal Tort Claims Act and state government claims acts, alongside federal and state court decisions. Local municipal codes are not indexed, though your office can upload its own charter and ordinances to query them alongside primary law. See Clio in action.