Clio Work for Administrative, Government, and Regulatory
Pick a task, copy the prompt, and run it on your matter in Clio Work.
Prompts
Legal Research
Check notice-and-comment requirements for a rulemaking
Transactional
What notice-and-comment requirements does APA § 553 impose on informal rulemaking? Explain what counts as adequate notice in a proposed rule, including the scope of issues, the logical outgrowth test, and disclosure of the data the agency relied on. Then explain what the final rule's statement of basis and purpose must include.
Map FOIA exemptions, fees, and appeal steps
Transactional
Walk me through the key FOIA requirements under 5 U.S.C. § 552. Cover how requests are processed, including agency deadlines, search scope, and segregability. Explain the main exemptions, focusing on Exemption 5 and its deliberative process, attorney-client, and work-product protections, and how agencies must justify withholding. Then cover fee categories, fee waiver standards, the administrative appeal process, and what's required before going to court.
Confirm due process for a professional license action
Transactional
What notice, hearing, and judicial review requirements apply when a state agency denies, suspends, or revokes a professional license under my state's administrative procedure act? Identify the minimum due process protections. Explain when a hearing is required before the action and when emergency action with a later hearing is allowed.
See how Loper Bright changes review of agency interpretations
Litigation
How have Loper Bright, Relentless, and Corner Post changed judicial review of agency statutory interpretations? Explain what replaces Chevron deference and how courts now handle ambiguity, agency expertise, and prior agency interpretations. Note which deference doctrines still apply, such as Skidmore or Auer, and when.
Apply arbitrary-and-capricious and major questions review to a rule
Litigation
How do the State Farm arbitrary and capricious standard, the major questions doctrine from West Virginia v. EPA, and the Supreme Court's decision in Ohio v. EPA affect judicial review of informal rulemaking? Explain how these doctrines work together or differ in practice, including reasoned decision-making, clear statutory authorization, the record, and remedies. Finish with the key takeaways for challenging or defending an agency rule.
Check standing for an organization challenging agency action
Litigation
What standing requirements apply to organizational and associational plaintiffs challenging federal agency action in my circuit? For each type of plaintiff, explain how courts analyze injury-in-fact, traceability, and redressability. Cover any circuit-specific tests, such as diversion of resources, member standing, and procedural injury.
Document Analysis
Review a federal grant agreement against 2 C.F.R. Part 200
Transactional
Review the attached federal grant agreement against 2 C.F.R. Part 200. Summarize the provisions covering compliance and reporting obligations, audit requirements including any Single Audit triggers, allowable cost standards and prior approvals, and termination, including termination for convenience, closeout, and repayment. Flag any terms that are missing, unclear, or potentially noncompliant, and list the follow-up questions needed to finish the review.
Pull obligations and penalties from agency orders
Transactional
Review the attached agency orders, consent agreements, or compliance schedules. Pull out the legal basis cited, each compliance obligation and who's responsible for it, every reporting deadline including recurring ones, and the penalty provisions, such as stipulated penalties, triggers, and cure periods. Put it all in a table with the document, section, obligation, trigger, due date, recipient, authority cited, penalty, and any notes.
Track compliance status across orders and permits
Transactional
From the attached agency orders, permits, and consent decrees, pull out each compliance obligation and put it in a table. Include the source document and paragraph, the requirement, the regulation it relies on, the deadline or frequency, the responsible party, any reporting obligation, and the current compliance status shown in the documents. Add a one-sentence basis for each status.
Break down the claims in an APA complaint
Litigation
From the attached administrative law complaint or petition for review, pull out each APA claim, the specific agency action being challenged, the statutes or regulations allegedly violated, and the relief requested. Note whether each challenged action is final. Put it in a table with the claim, challenged action, alleged violations, requested relief, and paragraph citations.
Find procedural errors in an agency decision
Litigation
Review the administrative record and the agency's final decision in this matter. Identify any procedural errors, such as notice or hearing defects, ex parte contacts, bias, or skipped steps. Also flag gaps in the decision's support. For each issue, quote the relevant passage, cite the record page or exhibit, and briefly explain why it's a defect.
Summarize each challenge in a petition for review
Litigation
For each APA challenge or petition for review in this document, identify the agency action being challenged, the statutory basis for the action and for review, the petitioner's legal theory, the standard of review, and the current procedural status. Put it in a table with one row per challenge, and cite the page or section where each item appears.
Skills
Skills save the way your firm does a task, so anyone at your firm gets the same result.
Get consistent, high-quality work from everyone at your firm, every time. A skill saves a task you repeat in your firm’s format and standards, so anyone on your team can run it. Use skills for document analyses, client letters, and strategy recommendations.
Draft a rulemaking comment letter in your firm's format
Drafts a public comment letter on a proposed rule in the firm's standard structure.
Create This Skill
Create a skill that reads a proposed rule and my client's position, then drafts a public comment letter using my firm's sample comment letter for format and tone. State the client's interest, summarize the proposal, and identify its legal and factual deficiencies with supporting citations. Propose practical alternatives and list specific requested changes to the rule text. Only ask follow-up questions if key inputs are missing.
Review an administrative record for unsupported findings
Reviews an agency record and flags unsupported findings and procedural errors before a challenge.
Create This Skill
Create a skill that reviews the administrative record in this matter and builds a table of each material agency finding. For each finding, show the agency's conclusion with a pinpoint cite, the record evidence it relied on, any contrary or overlooked evidence, missing support, and possible procedural or legal errors under the federal or my state's APA. Flag the strongest issues to raise on review and show where the record supports each one.
Respond to a licensing board complaint
Drafts the firm's response to a licensing board complaint or notice of agency action.
Create This Skill
Create a skill that reads a licensing board complaint or notice of agency action and drafts a response under my state's law. Address each allegation in order with an admission, denial, or qualified response and the supporting facts. Reference the supporting documents in this matter, raise any procedural defenses, and flag every deadline and next step. Use my firm's prior responses for structure, tone, and format. Don't invent facts, and mark anything missing as needed.
Track compliance obligations from agency orders
Pulls obligations and deadlines from agency orders and consent agreements into one table and the calendar.
Create This Skill
Create a skill that pulls every compliance obligation from the agency orders and consent agreements in this matter into a table. For each one, show the required action, responsible party, trigger, deadline including recurring ones, reporting requirements, penalty for noncompliance, and source citation. Split multi-step obligations into separate rows when the deadlines differ. Then add each deadline to the matter calendar with a reminder task 14 days before it's due.
Update clients when a rule changes
Drafts a plain-language client update when a rule or agency guidance changes.
Create This Skill
Create a skill that drafts a plain-language client update whenever a new rule or agency guidance is issued. Use my firm's client update format. Cover what was issued and by whom, what changed, who it applies to, effective dates and compliance deadlines, practical impacts, what the client needs to do now, and next steps. Add a short key takeaways section, cite the relevant sections of the new rule, and flag any open questions.
Draft Templates
Draft documents from a prompt, or fill your firm’s own templates with details from the matter.
Get from a blank page to a first draft in minutes. Describe the document, and Clio Work drafts it from your matter’s facts and your jurisdiction’s law. Or turn your firm’s own documents into templates that fill in party names, dates, and terms from the matter.
Draft from a prompt
Draft a public comment letter on a proposed rule
Transactional
Draft a public comment letter on this proposed rulemaking that identifies its biggest legal weaknesses. Point out key factual gaps in the agency's analysis. Propose two or three alternative regulatory approaches that fit the statute better and reduce litigation risk. Open with an executive summary, follow with specific comments supported by citations to the proposal and record, and close with the changes we're requesting.
Draft a brief challenging a rule as arbitrary and capricious
Litigation
Draft an opening brief in support of a petition for review arguing that the agency's final reporting rule is arbitrary and capricious under the APA. Argue that the agency failed to meaningfully respond to the client's significant comments and didn't acknowledge or explain its departure from its prior position. Use clear issue headings, state the APA standard of review, and support each point with controlling statutes and leading cases.
Rewrite unclear provisions in a compliance policy
Transactional
Review the draft compliance policy in this matter and rewrite any unclear, ambiguous, or inconsistent provisions. Keep the policy's structure and intent. For each change, show the original language, the revised language, and a one-sentence reason for the change.
Tighten the argument in a petition for review
Litigation
Review the draft petition for review in this matter and rewrite the argument section for clarity. Keep every legal theory and citation, tighten the structure under clear issue headings, and flag any argument that lacks record support or a cited authority.
Build your firm templates
FOIA Request Letter
Records requests follow the same format for every agency, so retyping them wastes time. Upload your firm's letter, and Clio Work turns the agency, the FOIA officer, the records requested, the date range, and the requester into fields it fills from each matter. Then review the suggested rules so the fee waiver request only appears when the requester is a nonprofit or news organization.
Public Comment Letter
Every comment letter needs the same opening, structure, and signature block, but the agency, docket, and deadline change each time. Upload your firm's letter, and Clio Work turns the agency, docket number, rule title, client name, and comment deadline into fields. Then review the suggested rules so the small business impact section only appears when the client is a small entity.
Administrative Hearing Request
Hearing requests run on tight response deadlines, so starting from scratch adds risk. Upload your firm's request, and Clio Work turns the licensee name, license number, agency, notice date, and response deadline into fields. Then review the suggested rules so the stay request only appears when the agency action takes effect before the hearing.
Visualizations
Visualizations make charts, calendars, and diagrams from your matter data.
Build the exact view you need, right when you need it. Describe it in plain language, and Clio Work builds an interactive tool from your matter data, such as a case chronology or a settlement calculator. Download it and share it with clients and colleagues.
Map a rulemaking from proposal to challenge
Shows a rule's path from proposal to final rule and any legal challenge.
Create This Visualization
Using visualizations, create an interactive timeline of this rulemaking. Show the proposed rule, comment deadlines and extensions, final rule, effective and compliance dates, and any petitions for review with the court and docket number. Note the source document for each event. Use the Federal Register notices, comment letters, and filings in this matter, and flag anything missing instead of guessing.
See where each agency proceeding stands
Shows where each pending agency proceeding stands and what is due next.
Create This Visualization
Using visualizations, create an interactive status board of each proceeding in this matter. Show the current stage, next deadline, responsible attorney, and next required filing. Flag anything due in the next 30 days. Let me sort and filter by proceeding, stage, attorney, and due date, and link each entry to the notice or filing it came from.
Put compliance deadlines on a calendar
Turns orders, permits, and consent agreements into a calendar of reporting obligations.
Create This Visualization
Using visualizations, create an interactive 12-month calendar of every reporting, compliance, notice, and milestone deadline in the agency orders and consent agreements in this matter. Color-code by obligation type, and show the responsible party, whether it recurs, and the source provision for each. Include a sortable table view of the same deadlines.
Group public comments by issue
Groups public comments on a proposed rule by issue so the main objections are easy to see.
Create This Visualization
Using visualizations, create an interactive chart grouping the public comments in this matter by issue. Show the number of comments on each issue and a short summary of the main arguments for and against. Let me click an issue to see the comment excerpts behind each summary.
Chart penalty exposure across violations
Compares potential penalties across alleged violations.
Create This Visualization
Using visualizations, create an interactive chart of each alleged violation in the notices of violation in this matter. Show the regulation cited, the statutory penalty range, the days of violation, and the estimated total exposure, with the calculation and any assumptions. Let me sort and filter by each field, and link each data point back to the notice language.