Dictate in any app · Legal
Legal work is billed by the hour and recorded in prose, so writing speed is money. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere Clio accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.
This is a vendor guide from the makers of Typally. Anything we say about Clio is worth verifying — third-party features change without notice.Time entry, document management and matter notes. Dictation is not built in; firms have historically used specialist legal dictation products.
Lawyers have dictated for a century — the profession invented the workflow. What changed is that the secretary who transcribed the tape is gone, so the fee earner types their own attendance notes at the end of the day, badly and from memory.
In practice people use it for: Attendance notes, matter narratives, time entry descriptions, client correspondence, and file notes.
Nothing changes inside Clio itself. Typally sits in the tray and types into the focused window:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
The cursor position is the whole instruction — Clio routes the keystrokes from there.
Nothing truncates part-way through.
Client confidentiality and privilege are your professional obligations, not the software's. Typally sends audio to a third-party transcription service — check your regulator's guidance and your firm's policy before dictating anything about a client matter.
Typally types into attendance notes, matter narratives and time entry descriptions from one hotkey, so the note gets written straight after the call rather than reconstructed at six o'clock. Confidentiality is your professional obligation and not the software's: audio is transcribed by a third-party service, so check your regulator's guidance and firm policy before using it on client matter.
A solicitor finishing a client call dictates the attendance note in ninety seconds — who said what, what was advised, what was agreed, what happens next. Eighteen months later, when the file is reviewed, the note is contemporaneous and specific rather than reconstructed.
Dictate the attendance note immediately after the call, while the detail is exact. A note written at six o'clock from memory is worth less in a costs assessment and much less in a dispute.
Client confidentiality and privilege are your professional obligations, not the software's. Typally sends audio to a third-party transcription service — check your regulator's guidance and your firm's policy before dictating anything about a client matter.
That depends on your regulator, your firm's policy and your retainer. Typally transmits audio to a third-party service, which is a disclosure you need to have considered before using it on client matters.
No. Firms typically use a separate dictation product alongside it.
Attendance notes written straight after the call, and time entry narratives written while you still remember the work.
Start on the free plan (100 minutes a month, no card). Pro lifts the cap and adds meeting notes for $7.99/month.
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