In the last in a series of interviews recorded during the ClioCon conference in Boston in October 2025, we bring you a doubleheader – two interviews with two of the legal tech company’s key executives.
In the first, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi speaks with Reagan Attle,…
The biggest deal of 2025 – in fact, the biggest deal ever in legal tech – was legal tech company Clio’s acquisition of vLex for $1 billion. A global legal research company founded in Spain, vLex had, just two years earlier, merged with the U.S.…
For legal technology company Clio, this was a particularly significant year, marked by major announcements – including its $1 billion acquisition of vLex – that many saw as transformative for the company. This was on full display at the company’s ClioCon conference in October, where CEO Jack Newton gave a keynote laying out the…
Last June, legal technology company Clio and legal marketing company Scorpion announced that they had formed a comprehensive strategic partnership aimed at giving law firms greater visibility into their marketing investments and outcomes, addressing what the companies described as a longstanding blind spot in how lawyers understand and optimize their client acquisition…
Legal technology company Clio recently released the 10th edition of its Legal Trends Report, its annual analysis of data and survey responses on legal practice and emerging trends, and this year’s report ventured into new territory. For the first time, the report included a neuroanalytics study of legal professionals, analyzing electrical brain activity in…
Legal technology company Clio has completed its $1 billion acquisition of vLex, marking the conclusion of the largest deal in legal tech history, and has simultaneously closed a $500 million Series G funding round, along with a $350 million debt facility, valuing the combined company at $5 billion, and clearing the way…
In his nearly 90-minute keynote at ClioCon last Thursday, CEO Jack Newton laid out an ambitious array of new products that, together, form what he called the Intelligent Legal Work Platform, transforming Clio from a “system of record” to a “system of action.”
Read: To A Sometimes ‘Shell-Shocked’ ClioCon Audience, Jack Newton Presented Clio’s…
Have you ever found yourself present in a moment and realized you were witnessing something historic? It is not an exaggeration to say that is what many of the 2,700 in-person attendees felt who were present for Clio cofounder and CEO Jack Newton’s keynote address that opened the 13th annual ClioCon conference last week…
Forbes is out this week with its 10th annual Cloud 100 list, tracking the top companies in cloud computing, and four legal tech companies made the list, while one dropped off from last year.
Two other legal tech companies were highlighted as rising stars — “startups on track to be some of the…
In a landmark deal that will undoubtedly reshape the legal tech landscape, law practice management company Clio has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the AI and legal research company vLex for $1 billion in cash and stock.
Update: A Conversation with CEO Jack Newton on Clio’s Acquisition of vLex.
The companies…
John Foreman, who has served as chief product officer at two major SaaS companies, has joined law practice management company Clio as its new chief product officer, the company said today.
The company said he will lead its product strategy and delivery across its expanding platform of products, guiding the company’s long-term innovation…
The motto of law practice management company Clio is to “transform the legal experience for all.” But for many of its 17 years in business, that “all” has focused primarily on smaller law firms and their clients. Last year, Clio expanded that “all” to include mid-sized firms, and, in the wake of its…
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