At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat down for a series of brief, in-person interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, he speaks with Curt Sigfstead, chief financial officer. He is responsible for managing Clio’s financial affairs, including finance, accounting, capital, treasury, taxation, and corporate…
A Special LawNext Recorded Live at ClioCon: Clio CEO Jack Newton on the Antifragile Law Firm
In an episode of LawNext recorded in person at the Clio Cloud Conference in Nashville, Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton discusses the “antifragile” law firm, a concept he introduced in his conference keynote — derived from the book, Antifragile: Things That…
ClioCon Post-Mortem: Slightly Off Its A-Game, But Still the Best Conference in Legal Tech
Question: What do you call the best team in baseball when it’s off its A-game for a night? Answer: The best team in baseball.
So what do you call the best conference in legal tech when it is off its A-game for a year? The best conference in legal tech.
Monday and Tuesday this week…
Clio’s 2022 Legal Trends Report Finds Lawyers’ Business Growing But Fees Fail to Keep Pace
At its annual Clio Cloud Conference today, the law practice management company Clio released the 2022 edition of its annual Legal Trends Report – its seventh year of the report.
It finds that law firms are seeing an average 10% increase in the growth of new business, but that their fees are…
At Kick-Off of ClioCon, Clio Unveils No-Code Websites, Text Messaging, Enhanced Payments, and Advanced Third-Party App Integration
As the Clio Cloud Conference kicked off in Nashville this morning – the conference’s 10th anniversary and its first time live since 2019 – Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton took to the stage to deliver a keynote address, during which he announced several new products and product enhancements.
New products he…
On Eve of ClioCon, Thoughts On the Legal Tech Industry from CEO Jack Newton
With the Clio Cloud Conference kicking off live Monday for the first time since 2019, and with this year marking the conference’s 10th anniversary, I caught up earlier today with Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton.
Some of what we talked about is under embargo until Monday, when Clio will be announcing new…
Special Offer for LawSites Readers: $300 Off Tickets to 10th Annual Clio Cloud Conference in October
After attending the 2019 Clio Cloud Conference, I wrote a post describing the experience as like “a cult of innovation.” I meant that in the most-positive sense possible.
“Within the context of a profession known for its resistance to change,” I wrote, “having 2,000 people together at one time who share a great devotion…
Clio Gets A New Global Sales Leader, As It Names Former RingCentral VP Jenny Dingus to the Role
The law practice management company Clio has named Jenny Dingus, formerly a top sales executive with RingCentral, as its senior vice president of global sales.
In her new role, Dingus will oversee all facets of Clio’s global sales activities, including business development, closing sales, and solutions for supporting sales. Her focus will…
CEOs of Clio, Paradigm and ProfitSolv React to News of LawPay’s Acquisition of MyCase
With the acquisition last week by payments company AffiniPay, parent of LawPay, of practice management company MyCase, one intriguing aspect of the deal was that, until then, LawPay had been the legal tech equivalent of Switzerland, partnering with virtually every practice management platform, but always neutral as to which should win…
Clio Offers to Buy Lawyers Out Of Up to Six Months of Competitors’ Contracts
The law practice management company Clio today introduced an offer to buy lawyers out of their contracts with competing practice management platforms if they switch to Clio’s platform.
Clio said it will help cover the remaining cost of the contract with the competitor by providing a credit of up to six months of free…
Q&A With Clio’s New CFO Curt Sigfstead: Is An IPO On The Horizon?
Last week, legal technology company Clio named Curt Sigfstead, a veteran technology, finance and investments professional, as its new chief financial officer.
Sigfstead was formerly CFO at Clearco, a Toronto-based fintech company that provides growth capital to e-commerce businesses through a unique model in which the investment is repaid through revenue sharing.
Before joining…
Clio Names Technology Finance Veteran Curt Sigfstead as Chief Financial Officer
The legal technology company Clio has named Curt Sigfstead, a veteran technology, finance and investments professional, as its new chief financial officer.
Sigfstead was formerly CFO at Clearco, a Toronto-based fintech company that provides growth capital to e-commerce businesses through a unique model in which the investment is repaid through revenue sharing.…