Clio in 2025: A New Era for Legal Work

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Printed Dec 17, 2025

A landmark yr of development, offers, and investments

For Clio, 2025 was a yr of unprecedented development, pushed by strategic offers and acquisitions that basically reshaped the legaltech panorama.

vLex acquisition 

In June, Clio introduced a definitive settlement to amass vLex, finishing the deal in November. At US$1 billion, this was the most important M&A acquisition in legaltech historical past.

By combining Clio’s authorized working system with vLex’s authorized AI, powered by one of many world’s largest authorized databases, attorneys can now transfer from analysis to case technique to drafting, all inside seamlessly related workflows.

Now Clio brings collectively the enterprise and follow of legislation, enabling attorneys to spend extra time on technique and consumer service, fairly than juggling an online of separate instruments.

ShareDo acquisition

In March, Clio formally entered the enterprise authorized market with the strategic acquisition of ShareDo (now Clio Function), the main authorized work administration platform for big legislation corporations.

Clio Function has develop into the product basis for our new enterprise division, Clio for Enterprise (extra on that under), offering authorized case administration options for big legislation corporations and company authorized departments.

Collection G funding

In November, Clio accomplished a Collection G funding spherical, elevating US$500 million at a US$5 billion valuation. This funding not solely underscores the boldness of the world’s prime buyers in Clio’s monetary efficiency but additionally accelerates our purpose of defining the following period of authorized expertise by fueling long-term product innovation and world market enlargement.

Clio Ventures’ funding in Definely

Clio’s funding arm, Clio Ventures, backed UK-based legaltech firm Definely in its US$30 million Collection B funding spherical.

Definely offers AI-powered drafting and contract evaluate options, which permits authorized groups to speed up duties like doc creation and evaluation. 

This funding displays Clio’s broader technique of making certain that attorneys don’t simply use the very best instruments however fairly related ecosystems that enhance total effectivity and outcomes. Sooner or later, all Clio customers will be capable to combine Definely into their current workflows by our intensive app ecosystem.

All these bulletins underscore the quantity of industry-defining innovation that occurred at Clio within the span of a single yr, and the way we had been capable of develop the follow of authorized work by connecting analysis, drafting, agency knowledge, and consumer outcomes throughout Clio’s platform.

Introducing the Clever Authorized Work Platform

In 2025, Clio launched the Clever Authorized Work Platform, a brand new answer and legaltech product class that brings AI to each a part of authorized work. Its flagship workspace, Clio Work, unifies engaged on issues, analysis, and drafting right into a single AI-powered workflow, serving to attorneys transfer seamlessly from perception to motion with out switching between completely different product ecosystems.

Conventional authorized workflow (pre-2025)
Clever Authorized Work Platform (post-2025)

Analysis is a separate step utilizing standalone instruments
Analysis, evaluation, and technique occur inside Clio Work with matter context already obtainable

Search outcomes rely on understanding what to ask for
The system surfaces not solely what’s looked for but additionally related sources that had been beforehand unknown

Authorized knowledge lives in silos exterior case administration
AI attracts immediately from paperwork, deadlines, duties, notes, and communications already in Clio Handle

Requires handbook importing or briefing earlier than analysis
No have to add information or temporary the system; the platform routinely is aware of the context of issues

Key phrase or Boolean searches constrain outcomes
Pure language understanding delivers exact, cited analysis grounded in legislation

Drafting and evaluation are separate duties
AI creates timelines, analyzes paperwork, and generates outlines, memos, and arguments throughout the identical workspace

Data is difficult to reuse and infrequently forgotten
Insights and outputs save again into issues, compounding agency information over time

Disjointed follow administration and analysis instruments
One unified platform that connects matter knowledge with a worldwide legislation library and AI-powered workflows

Frequent context switching slows momentum
Steady workflow reduces interruptions and accelerates progress

Consequence: Extra context switching, handbook work, and fragmented programs
Consequence: A steady, context-aware workflow that reduces switching and accelerates authorized work 

Clio Duo developed into Handle AI

In 2025, Clio Duo, Clio Handle’s AI assistant, expanded to extra international locations and turned obtainable in Canada. At ClioCon 2025, in November, it additionally obtained an entire characteristic refresh and developed into Handle AI. 

Handle AI represents a big shift in AI-powered workflows, from automating routine administrative duties, to surfacing actionable insights contextualized to particular issues and purchasers, to conserving work unified throughout groups.

Clio for Enterprise

In 2025, Clio launched a brand new devoted enterprise division, Clio for Enterprise, to serve the wants of huge authorized groups and company authorized departments that always have complicated workflows and have to combine with dozens of current instruments. 

Clio for Enterprise is a set of best-in-class options: Clio Function is a extremely customizable work administration platform, Vincent by Clio makes enterprise-grade authorized AI evaluation attainable, Clio Library allows in-depth authorized analysis, and Clio Docket offers industry-leading litigation intelligence.

Capital and funds reimagined

Clio’s improvements in 2025 prolonged past authorized workflows to handle monetary friction as properly. This yr, Clio launched two vital advances in monetary providers choices:

Pay Later with Affirm offers authorized purchasers the pliability to pay authorized charges over time in predictable installments. This innovation removes monetary boundaries for purchasers whereas enhancing corporations’ money circulate and increasing market attain.
Clio Capital offers a quick, dependable capital advance program that helps corporations in managing money circulate and confidently investing in development alternatives. Along with Pay Later with Affirm, it helps corporations function extra easily and spend money on their future.

App integration ecosystem

Clio’s app listing continued to develop and thrive in 2025, with companions and instruments that improve workflows and prolong the attain of Clio merchandise.

Clio’s annual Integration Awards highlighted essentially the most progressive apps driving the way forward for legaltech and leveraging AI and knowledge. Standout integrations and Integration Award winners included:

Vera (Greatest New App) options an AI-powered timeline builder that extracts key dates from authorized paperwork and syncs them to your Clio calendar.
Clearbrief (Greatest Observe of Regulation App) affords an AI quotation assistant that finds, verifies, and codecs citations from discovery information immediately in Microsoft Phrase, connecting analysis to drafting.
CollBox (Greatest Enterprise of Regulation App) automates collections and improves accounts receivable, making certain corporations can concentrate on lawyering as an alternative of chasing funds.

These progressive integrations strengthen the complete platform, saving time, decreasing handbook work, and serving to authorized groups concentrate on strategic work and delivering distinctive consumer service.

ClioCon 2025

Bringing collectively 2,700 in-person and a pair of,600 digital attendees, ClioCon 2025 in Boston wasn’t simply one other convention however a real showcase of the way forward for authorized work. ClioCon additionally provided a preview of the place the {industry} expects to be in 2026 and past, setting the stage for the following period of authorized work.

Highlights of ClioCon 2025 included:

The momentum is already constructing for subsequent yr. With a neighborhood pushing the {industry} ahead and a platform rising in functionality and impression, we’re excited to look forward. In 2026, ClioCon returns to Boston on October 26–27. Get your tickets now earlier than the worth goes up.

The science behind smarter legislation: 2025 Authorized Developments Report

The 2025 Authorized Developments Report revealed a transparent and compelling theme: expertise, particularly AI, is basically rewiring how authorized work will get performed.

Backed by insights from an industry-first neurological examine of authorized professionals, the report explored how related expertise can considerably enhance agency efficiency whereas decreasing cognitive pressure from managing scattered knowledge and instruments. Companies adopting AI-powered instruments are seeing effectivity good points, stronger monetary efficiency, and higher consumer communication.

Companion studies for solo and small legislation corporations and mid-sized corporations surfaced necessary variations in adoption. Whereas solo and small corporations are lagging behind their bigger counterparts in AI utilization, mid-sized corporations are main the way in which, with almost all now utilizing AI in some capability of their follow.

These insights reinforce why Clio is investing closely in AI, analysis, and enterprise capabilities. The information makes it clear: the way forward for authorized work belongs to corporations that combine expertise into their workflow. Clio is constructing the infrastructure to deliver that future to the current.

Recognition, tradition, and impression

For Clio, 2025 was a yr of recognition, development, and giving again.

Awards and rankings: Clio was named to Fortune’s The Future 50 Checklist for the second consecutive yr, appeared on the Forbes 2025 Cloud 100 record for the second yr in a row, earned the 2025 Innovator of the Yr by CIX Summit, and received a Stevie® Award for Gross sales & Buyer Service. In G2’s Summer season 2025 awards, Clio captured 35 badges and earned Grid Chief in 5 authorized software program classes.

Tradition and employer recognition: Clio’s dedication to folks and tradition was acknowledged with a Platinum designation by Canada’s Greatest Managed Firms and being named as one in all Canada’s Most Admired Company Cultures™ for 2025. Clio was additionally acknowledged as one in all Canada’s High Employers for Younger Folks and as one in all Canada’s High 100 Employers for 2026.

Neighborhood and philanthropy: Clio contributed US$3 million to UBC Sauder’s Powerhouse Mission, supporting entrepreneurship and innovation in Canada by serving to to create long-term alternatives for college students, startups, and the enterprise neighborhood. 

Collectively, these achievements, paired with our funding in folks and neighborhood, underscore that Clio is constructing an organization designed not simply to final, however to steer the way forward for the authorized occupation.

Powered by folks: management and workforce milestones

It wouldn’t be a Clio 2025 recap with out highlighting a number of the folks behind our progress. This yr, Clio strengthened its management and world workforce with key additions, together with John Foreman who joined as Chief Product Officer to drive Clio’s product technique and supply, and Luke Slan, appointed as Normal Supervisor, Canada, supporting enlargement in our house market.

As a part of the vLex acquisition, Clio additionally welcomed new additions to the management workforce: 

Lluis Faus as Strategic Advisor & Interim Chief Content material Officer
Angel Faus as VP, Engineering
Ed Walters as VP, Authorized Innovation & Technique
Hugo Ruiz-Taboada as VP, Finance
Nina Jack as GM, US Enterprise
Betty Argiles as VP, Enterprise Technique

Our continued development throughout world groups ensures that we can’t solely meet however get forward of the evolving wants of authorized professionals and spearhead accountable authorized innovation.

Wanting forward: 2026 and past

In 2026, Clio will likely be centered on constructing the following period of authorized work. We’ll proceed deepening the Clever Authorized Work Platform, scaling our enterprise choices, and advancing accountable, legal-specific AI innovation.

Neighborhood will stay central to all the things we do, together with ClioCon 2026, ongoing analysis, and strategic partnerships.

As we enter this subsequent chapter, our focus stays the identical: to construct expertise that helps authorized professionals function with larger readability, confidence, and connection. In 2026, we’ll work on much more alternatives for shaping what the way forward for authorized work may seem like—collectively.

Need to be part of subsequent yr’s largest announcement? Register for ClioCon 2026 and be part of us in Boston on October 26–27 to transcend limits and discover what’s subsequent.