https://www.lawnext.com/category/lawnext-products/vlex Tracking new and intriguing websites and products for the legal profession. Wed, 13 May 2026 14:02:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/clio-says-it-has-surpassed-500m-in-annual-recurring-revenue.html Wed, 13 May 2026 14:01:05 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53151 Amid all the hubbub yesterday around Claude for legal, Clio quietly slipped in a notable story of its own: that it has now surpassed $500 million in annual recurring revenue. Since few legal tech companies are public, it is hard to know where that puts Clio on the overall revenue landscape. But based on available […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/alexi-fires-back-at-fastcase-lawsuit-with-counterclaims-alleging-anticompetitive-conduct-following-clios-1b-acquisition.html Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:20:49 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52187 Alexi Technologies has filed its answer and counterclaim against Fastcase, vLex, and Clio, accusing the newly merged legal technology giant of manufacturing breach-of-contract allegations as a pretext to eliminate a competitor in the AI legal research market. In December, Fastcase, now owned by Clio, sued Alexi in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/on-lawnext-fastcase-founder-ed-walters-on-the-implications-of-clios-acquisition-of-vlex.html Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:41:52 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52051 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. legal research company Fastcase, and the union of those two […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/12/on-lawnext-inside-clios-ai-driven-transformation-cpo-john-foreman-and-cto-jonathan-watson.html Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:44:19 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51944 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 company’s […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/12/fastcase-files-lawsuit-against-alexi-over-alleged-data-misuse-and-trademark-infringement.html Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:10:23 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51820 Legal research technology company Fastcase, which is now owned by Clio, has filed a federal lawsuit against AI-powered legal research platform Alexi, alleging breach of contract, trademark infringement and trade secret misappropriation, relating to its use of data licensed from Fastcase. The complaint, filed Nov. 26 in the U.S. District Court for the District of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/11/clio-completes-historic-1-billion-vlex-acquisition-announces-500-million-series-g-at-5-billion-valuation-plus-exclusive-interview-with-ceo-and-cfo.html Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:00:02 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51629 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 to move forward […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/06/in-a-mega-deal-clio-buys-vlex-for-1-billion-merging-ai-research-and-practice-management.html Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:51:07 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50259 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 say that the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/05/legal-research-service-decisis-makes-inroads-against-fastcase-as-it-expands-to-20-bar-associations.html Fri, 09 May 2025 14:18:48 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49848 Decisis, the legal research service that LexisNexis parent RELX launched in 2021 to compete against Fastcase for a share of the bar association partnership business, has expanded over just the past year from 10 to 20 bar partnerships, including 14 state bar associations. In fact, two of those state bars have yet to publicly announce […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/02/exclusive-with-its-latest-release-out-today-vlexs-vincent-ai-adds-multi-modal-capabilities-litigation-workflows-and-coverage-for-four-new-countries.html Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:18:55 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48978 When legal intelligence company vLex released a major upgrade to its Vincent AI last September, I wrote that it might just be the most capable generative AI assistant in the legal market. Now, vLex is releasing another major upgrade to Vincent AI that pushes it further beyond traditional legal research and document analysis, with distinct […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/02/in-ai-smackdown-law-librarians-compare-legal-ai-research-platforms-finding-distinct-strengths-and-limitations.html Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:30:48 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48923 How do AI-driven legal research platforms — specifically those that provide direct answers to legal questions — stack up against each other? That was the question at a Feb. 8 meeting of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, where a panel of three law librarians reported on their comparison of the AI answers delivered […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/today-on-legaltech-week-guests-ed-walters-and-robin-chesterman-from-vlex-discuss-the-new-vincent-ai-plus-the-weeks-top-news.html Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:26:41 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47704 Live today on the weekly Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable, we’ll get a briefing on the major upgrade to Vincent AI, the vLex AI assistant, from Robin Chesterman, global head of product, and Ed Walters, chief strategy officer, following yesterday’s announcement of major enhancements to the legal workflow assistant.  Of course, the panel will also talk about […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/as-it-unveils-major-upgrade-of-its-vincent-ai-vlex-may-now-be-the-most-capable-ai-assistant-in-the-legal-market.html Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:45:54 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47680  Ever since Casetext released CoCounsel on March 1, 2023, the race has been on among legal tech companies to develop the most capable generative AI assistant for legal professionals. Today, vLex is releasing a major upgrade to its Vincent AI that puts it firmly in the running for that honor. I might be even more […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/new-citators-from-vlex-and-paxton-underscore-that-they-are-the-holy-grail-for-legal-research-companies.html Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:22:15 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47151 Citators — tools that validate whether a case or statute is still good law — have always been an essential component of a full-featured legal research platform. But in this age of AI-generated hallucinations, they may be more important than ever before. Just two products have long dominated the legal research market as the gold […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/05/vlex-imanage-partnership-enables-single-ai-powered-search-of-internal-firm-documents-and-external-legal-resources-as-well-as-automatic-filing-of-federal-litigation-documents.html Wed, 29 May 2024 12:45:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46726 Document management company iManage and legal research company vLex now have something else in common besides brand names that start with lower-case letters. The two companies today announced a partnership that will combine the artificial intelligence and docket-monitoring tools of vLex with the knowledge assets and client and matter folders that a law firm or […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/two-launches-today-from-vlex-a-gen-ai-document-analyzer-for-litigation-and-transactions-and-a-co-development-lab-to-help-customers-adapt-ai.html Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:02:39 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46391 The global legal research company vLex today announced the launch of Vincent AI Document Analyze, a new tool in its suite of generative AI features that enables legal professionals to analyze litigation and transactional documents and surface legal and factual information that they can use in preparing a response. Also today, vLex said it has […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/12/top-15-lawnext-podcast-episodes-of-2023-and-of-all-time.html Fri, 29 Dec 2023 14:17:23 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45446 Call me lucky. Every week, I get to sit down at the mic for my LawNext podcast and have a conversation with the leading “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” For me, each and every one of these conversations is fun and fascinating. But I am equally fascinated to add up the numbers […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/12/my-40-most-read-blog-posts-this-year-tell-a-story-of-a-legal-industry-consumed-with-generative-ai.html Wed, 27 Dec 2023 13:51:25 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45365 Look over this list of my blog posts that were most popular this year, and there is no doubt about the topic that most captivated the legal industry. Of my 40 most-read posts of 2023, 30 directly involved generative AI and others implicated it. Of course, there is a chicken-or-egg aspect to this. Were so […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/11/docket-alarm-founder-michael-sander-leaves-after-vlex-acquisition-former-gavelytics-exec-joins-to-lead-product-line.html Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:48:00 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45183 Michael Sander, the founder of Docket Alarm, a product that mines federal and state court dockets to provide litigation alerts and case analytics, has left the company, seven months after its acquisition by legal research company vLex in April. Docket Alarm was part of legal research company Fastcase, which had acquired it in January 2018, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/11/disco-licenses-vlex-library-in-move-to-combine-legal-analysis-with-factual-analysis-within-its-platform.html Wed, 08 Nov 2023 21:35:36 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45049 The e-discovery company DISCO said today it has entered into a long-term license with the international legal research company vLex to obtain access to its U.S. primary law library of cases, statutes, regulations, court rules and constitutions. The company said it will incorporate the legal research data into its core platform to create a marriage […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/10/vlex-fastcase-unveils-beta-version-of-its-global-multi-language-generative-ai-legal-research-tool.html Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:44:51 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=44799 When the legal research companies vLex and Fastcase announced their merger in April, they promised the deal would fuel new opportunities for the development of generative AI for legal research. By creating the world’s largest global legal research library, spanning more than 1 billion documents from more than 110 countries, they said, they would have […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/07/the-2023-fastcase-50-announced-honoring-legals-innovators-visionaries-and-leaders.html Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:17:12 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=44073 Since 2011, Fastcase has released an annual list of the Fastcase 50, honoring 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.” Fortunately, even though Fastcase merged earlier this year with vLex, that tradition continues, as Fastcase has now announced the 2023 honorees.  I say “fortunately” because, as I wrote when last […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/04/on-lawnext-podcast-the-four-founders-of-vlex-and-fastcase-on-the-merger-of-their-two-companies.html Tue, 25 Apr 2023 16:47:03 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=43425 It was major news April 4 when the legal research and technology companies Fastcase and vLex announced their merger, creating a single entity that they say now has the world’s largest subscriber base of lawyers and law firms and a legal research library of more than 1 billion documents from more than 100 countries.  It […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/04/on-lawnext-revisiting-the-fastcase-origin-story-ed-walters-and-phil-rosenthal-on-how-their-company-came-to-be.html Mon, 10 Apr 2023 18:19:27 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=43339 With the news last week of the merger of legal research companies Fastcase and vLex, it seemed a good time to revisit our 2019 interview with the founders of Fastcase, Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal. The occasion of this interview was the company’s 20th anniversary, and we recorded it live, on the exhibit hall floor, at the annual conference of the American Association […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/04/in-major-legal-tech-deal-vlex-and-fastcase-merge-creating-a-global-legal-research-company-backed-by-oakley-capital-and-bain-capital.html Tue, 04 Apr 2023 12:45:36 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=43284 In a deal that will reshape the legal research and legal technology landscape on a global basis and threaten the longstanding “Wexis” legal research duopoly, the companies vLex and Fastcase today announced that they have merged into a single entity that they say will have the world’s largest subscriber base of lawyers and law firms […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/03/aba-antitrust-content-now-available-on-vlex-and-we-have-an-exclusive-demo-of-how-it-works.html Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:00:35 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=43248 The legal research company vLex and the American Bar Association are today announcing a partnership to offer access to a collection of more than 60 titles from the ABA’s Antitrust Law Section on vLex’s AI-powered research platform. The collection of competition and consumer protection content covers essential areas of antitrust law such as monopolization, intellectual […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2022/09/lawnext-podcast-vlex-managing-director-masoud-gerami-on-the-companys-acquisition-and-plans-for-growth-of-its-international-legal-research-platform.html Tue, 13 Sep 2022 14:12:12 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=41436 Last week, Oakley Capital, a major European private equity investor, said that it had acquired majority ownership of vLex, the international legal research platform that lays claim to having the largest collection of legal information on a single service.  On this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi is joined from London by Masoud Gerami, managing […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2022/09/in-partnership-with-vlex-free-law-project-to-build-complete-case-law-database.html Mon, 12 Sep 2022 13:31:07 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=41396 A new partnership between Free Law Project, a nonprofit devoted to making legal information publicly and freely available, and vLex, the international legal research platform, will enable Free Law Project to complete its goal of collecting every precedential court decision from the federal courts and state appellate courts and making them available to the public […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2022/09/private-equity-firm-acquires-majority-interest-in-global-legal-research-platform-vlex.html Mon, 05 Sep 2022 12:59:40 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=41351 Oakley Capital, a major European private equity investor, has acquired majority ownership of vLex, the international legal research platform. The investment means that vLex will now have more resources available to drive its growth, including in the United States, and potentially to make acquisitions of other companies that will further that growth, a company spokesperson […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2022/01/legal-research-service-vlex-partners-with-leading-publishers-to-launch-global-news-product.html Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:39:31 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=39551 The international legal research service vLex said today it has partnered with some of the world’s leading news publishers to launch a new Global News product on its platform.  “Global News is a significant expansion of vLex’s expert legal commentary and news content, making it a vital tool for any lawyer, law librarian, investigative researcher, or […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/10/lexblog-creates-open-legal-blog-archive-to-preserve-blogs-for-search-citation-syndication-and-posterity.html Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:20:48 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=38219 In an initiative intended to provide better access to and visibility for the insights and commentary published on legal blogs, LexBlog, a company that provides professional blogs and turnkey digital publishing solutions for law firms and legal organizations, has launched the Open Legal Blog Archive. The archive aims to be a centralized database of all […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/07/fastcase-names-its-11th-annual-class-of-fastcase-50-honorees.html Mon, 12 Jul 2021 14:00:29 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=37012 If you are wondering where the innovators are in law, look no farther than the Fastcase 50, the annual award doled out by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.” Fastcase today announced its 11th annual Fastcase 50 honorees, which adds up to […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2020/09/first-of-its-kind-project-launches-to-expand-access-to-canadian-legal-data.html https://www.lawnext.com/2020/09/first-of-its-kind-project-launches-to-expand-access-to-canadian-legal-data.html#respond Mon, 21 Sep 2020 14:44:30 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=34129 A first-of-its-kind nonprofit launching today seeks to broaden public access to Canadian primary law and other forms of legal data in order to advance access to justice, advance legal innovation, and help balance the sometimes competing concerns of open courts and personal privacy. Called the Legal Innovation Data Institute, the organization is modeled on open-data […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2020/09/first-of-its-kind-project-launches-to-expand-access-to-canadian-legal-data.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2020/04/unique-deal-gives-kentucky-lawyers-access-to-two-research-services-plus-ai-tool.html https://www.lawnext.com/2020/04/unique-deal-gives-kentucky-lawyers-access-to-two-research-services-plus-ai-tool.html#respond Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:56:19 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=32321 In what appears to be a first-of-its kind member benefit, the Kentucky Bar Association has entered into an affiliation with two legal research companies, Casemaker and vLex, to offer its members free access to both platforms, plus access to vLex’s artificial intelligence research assistant, Vincent. While virtually every state bar offers its members access to […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2020/04/unique-deal-gives-kentucky-lawyers-access-to-two-research-services-plus-ai-tool.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2019/10/vlex-partners-with-lexblog-to-add-400000-blog-posts-to-global-research-collection.html https://www.lawnext.com/2019/10/vlex-partners-with-lexblog-to-add-400000-blog-posts-to-global-research-collection.html#respond Tue, 08 Oct 2019 12:39:24 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=30537 The international legal research service vLex has partnered with the legal blogging company LexBlog to add more than 400,000 law-related blog posts to its collection of legal-research materials, which currently spans some 100 jurisdictions, including the United States. As a result of this partnership, legal researchers using vLex will now have direct access to legal […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2019/10/vlex-partners-with-lexblog-to-add-400000-blog-posts-to-global-research-collection.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2019/03/global-legal-research-company-vlex-acquires-uk-service-justis-publishing.html https://www.lawnext.com/2019/03/global-legal-research-company-vlex-acquires-uk-service-justis-publishing.html#respond Fri, 29 Mar 2019 06:05:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=29371 The global legal research company vLex will announce today that it has acquired Justis Publishing Ltd., a 33-year-old UK-based online legal publisher with clients in more than 40 countries including the UK, Ireland, the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. Justis, headquartered in London, will become part of vLex. Justis Managing […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2019/03/global-legal-research-company-vlex-acquires-uk-service-justis-publishing.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2019/03/casemaker-offers-its-members-access-to-vincent-ai-tool-from-vlex.html https://www.lawnext.com/2019/03/casemaker-offers-its-members-access-to-vincent-ai-tool-from-vlex.html#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:15:42 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=29245 The legal research platform Casemaker is announcing today an expansion of its partnership with the global legal research company vLex by which its members will get access to Vincent, vLex’s artificial intelligence legal research assistant. Subscribers who receive access to Casemaker through bar association affinity plans are entitled to a one-week free trial of Vincent […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2019/03/casemaker-offers-its-members-access-to-vincent-ai-tool-from-vlex.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2018/09/vincent-joins-cara-eva-clerk-latest-ai-driven-research-assistant.html https://www.lawnext.com/2018/09/vincent-joins-cara-eva-clerk-latest-ai-driven-research-assistant.html#respond Thu, 20 Sep 2018 20:01:27 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=28107 The international legal research platform vLex today introduced the beta version of Vincent, an AI-powered legal research assistant that analyzes legal documents you upload and finds relevant research results. Vincent is in the same vein as CARA from Casetext, Clerk from Judicata, and EVA from ROSS Intelligence in that you upload a brief, legal document or court opinion, and it finds and it […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2018/09/vincent-joins-cara-eva-clerk-latest-ai-driven-research-assistant.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2018/01/vlex-built-ai-platform-offering-participants-global-hackathon.html https://www.lawnext.com/2018/01/vlex-built-ai-platform-offering-participants-global-hackathon.html#comments Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:52:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=16931 https://www.lawnext.com/2018/01/vlex-built-ai-platform-offering-participants-global-hackathon.html/feed 1 https://www.lawnext.com/2017/06/first-phase-launches-new-canadian-global-research-site.html https://www.lawnext.com/2017/06/first-phase-launches-new-canadian-global-research-site.html#respond Thu, 22 Jun 2017 18:11:42 +0000 http://www.lawnext.com/?p=15719 https://www.lawnext.com/2017/06/first-phase-launches-new-canadian-global-research-site.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2017/05/plans-unveiled-major-new-canadian-legal-research-platforms.html https://www.lawnext.com/2017/05/plans-unveiled-major-new-canadian-legal-research-platforms.html#comments Fri, 05 May 2017 12:53:03 +0000 http://www.lawnext.com/?p=15273 https://www.lawnext.com/2017/05/plans-unveiled-major-new-canadian-legal-research-platforms.html/feed 2 https://www.lawnext.com/2017/02/casemaker-gets-international-legal-materials-partnership-vlex.html https://www.lawnext.com/2017/02/casemaker-gets-international-legal-materials-partnership-vlex.html#respond Thu, 09 Feb 2017 13:30:17 +0000 http://www.lawnext.com/?p=14504 https://www.lawnext.com/2017/02/casemaker-gets-international-legal-materials-partnership-vlex.html/feed 0