How It Works
Three steps.
Zero retyping.
clerk& turns spoken dictation, photographed notes, and pasted instructions into structured documents in your house style — formatted correctly on first pass. Built for the handoff between a barrister dictating and a clerk dispatching.
- Step 01
Capture
Open the app on your phone or laptop. Speak naturally, snap a photo of a handwritten note, or paste an email from the instructing solicitor.
- When
- Between hearings. On the walk back from court. End of day. Anytime.
- Where
- Anywhere. Offline-first — audio sits on your device until you have signal.
- How long
- Most dictations are 2–4 minutes. A full day's fees from a list day might be 8.
- Step 02
clerk& drafts
The AI does four things at once: it transcribes, it identifies the document type, it pulls structured data (case names, hours, fees, dates), and it formats output in your house style.
- Transcription
- Speech recognition trained on Irish and UK legal vocabulary — case names, statutes, Latin terms, fadas, neutral citations.
- Document detection
- Fee note, brief, attendance note, correspondence to instructing solicitor — detected from context.
- Structured extraction
- Hours tallied, VAT computed, payees identified, references checked.
- House style
- Your headings, your footers, your reference format. Not a generic template.
- Step 03
Review and send
You get a structured document back in seconds. Read, edit by voice or keyboard, and dispatch.
- Voice editing
- “Replace paragraph two with…” or “Change the rate to €350.”
- Export
- PDF, DOCX, email, or copy to clipboard. Filed automatically into the right matter folder.
- Audit trail
- Every change is logged. Source dictation, draft history, and final document linked.
What it produces
For counsel
- —Written opinions and advices
- —Briefs to counsel
- —Attendance notes from consultations
- —Written submissions
- —Case summaries
- —Correspondence to instructing solicitors
For clerks
- —Fee notes (with hours, rates, and VAT)
- —Brief covers and indexes
- —Attendance notes from consultations
- —Standard correspondence and follow-ups
- —Cheque-and-payment trackers
- —Workspace-wide search across matters
Why this isn't just another dictation tool
Structured work, not transcripts
Phone dictation gives you a wall of text. clerk& returns documents with headings, fees tables, and the right format for each output type.
Built around both sides of the desk
Counsel dictating between hearings, clerk reviewing and dispatching back at the desk. Both flows live in the same workspace, not in two disconnected tools.
Local vocabulary built in
Irish and UK case citations, neutral citations, Latin, and Irish names with fadas. No spelling out “Ó Domhnaill v Merrick” every time.
Three input modes
Voice, camera, and keyboard. All feed the same pipeline, produce the same house-style output.
Files & folders included
Every output filed automatically to the right matter. AI-suggested filing, full-text search, no second tool to learn.
Shared workspaces
Counsel, clerks, and assistants share one workspace — sole practitioners through to busy rooms with a senior clerk — with scoped roles and a complete audit log.
Put your AI clerk to work.
Free 14-day trial. No credit card. Five-minute setup. Whether you’re a sole practitioner or running a busy clerk’s room, clerk& earns its keep on the first fee note.