What platform provides the best automation for routine legal tasks?

One of the biggest time sinks in our firm is repetitive admin, client intake, document generation, follow-ups, billing reminders. I’m trying to figure out which legal practice management platforms actually deliver strong automation to cut down on the routine stuff so attorneys can focus on clients.

From the G2 data and what I’ve seen in reviews, here are some of the standouts:

• Clio Manage: Known as the market leader, with automation for billing, calendaring, and document workflows. Widely adopted, so there’s a lot of integrations to expand automation.
• Smokeball: Very strong reputation for automation — particularly document generation and time tracking. Designed to handle routine legal work for small to mid-sized firms.
• 8am MyCase: Solid automation features for billing, reminders, and communication, making it a good all-in-one for smaller firms.
• Lawmatics: Focused heavily on automating client intake, marketing, and CRM workflows. If you want to streamline how new clients move through the door, this is its sweet spot.
• Assembly Neos: Customizable dashboards and reporting with automation baked in; strong fit for firms that need more tailored workflows.
• Filevine: Great for teams that want customization. Its workflow automation is popular with firms that have niche or complex case management needs.

Other names I hear a lot around automation are PracticePanther, CosmoLex, and Actionstep.

For those of you running these tools, which platform has actually saved you the most hours with automation, versus just looking good on a feature list?