Highlights from ClioCon 2025 | Clio

Opening keynote by Jack Newton

Kicking off our 13th annual ClioCon in Boston, Clio’s CEO and Founder, Jack Newton set the tone for the two days with his opening keynote built on this year’s theme—Uniting Brilliance—and examined how innovation and technology are propelling the legal profession into a new era of transformation.

We had our biggest wave of product announcements in ClioCon history, with Jack announcing Clio Operate (for large law firms), Vincent by Clio, Clio Work, Manage AI, and Clio Grow and Clio Draft’s new AI capabilities, unveiling Clio’s vision for the intelligent legal work platform that’s set to replace traditional practice management software and redefine how legal professionals work. A system of record has evolved into a system of action. 

The keynote made it clear that innovation at Clio isn’t just about building better tools; it’s about transforming how people experience law on both sides of the desk and across every firm size.

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ClioCon 2025 product and feature announcements

During Jack’s keynote, he unveiled some of our most transformative innovations yet, designed to change not only how firms run their businesses, but how legal work itself gets done.

From transforming enterprise case management to reimagining research, drafting, and everyday workflows for all firm sizes with AI, Clio’s newest innovations mark a major step forward for the legal industry. Together, these products set a new benchmark for how technology powers the practice and business of law.

Clio for Enterprise: Large law firm case management, reimagined

One of our biggest announcements at ClioCon this year was the launch of Clio Operate (formerly ShareDo), a trusted platform used by some of the world’s largest law firms for over a decade. Now, as part of the Clio family, it’s becoming even more powerful.

Clio Operate brings every matter, document, and workflow into one adaptive system designed for scale. The results speak for themselves: reducing case lifecycles by up to 40%, creating new matters 80% faster, and increasing fee-earner capacity by 30%. Now integrated into the Clio ecosystem, Clio Operate becomes the backbone of the world’s largest law firms and corporate legal departments, enhancing their operations with the research power of Vincent by Clio, the depth of over one billion legal documents in Clio Library, and the litigation intelligence of Clio Docket.

We couldn’t be more excited to introduce Clio for Enterprise and to support the largest firms in the world with technology that’s built for them, today and tomorrow.

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Clio Library*: A new era of legal research

Legal research is an essential part of a lawyer’s work, and we’re thrilled to introduce Clio Library, as the first legal research platform built seamlessly into the way you already manage your firm and serve your clients.

With access to over 1 billion legal documents from 100+ countries, Clio Library delivers research that is always accurate and always current. It’s more than search: it’s smarter research that helps lawyers uncover connections faster, build stronger arguments, and move client work forward with confidence.

With Clio Library, you can:

• Research with confidence. Daily updates from courts, governments, and regulators worldwide ensure you’re never relying on outdated law.
• Find connections that matter. Advanced tools like the Precedent Map and Key Passages go beyond keyword searches to reveal relationships between cases, highlight the most cited legal reasoning, and track how precedents evolve over time.
• Stay ahead of change. Chronological citation tracking reveals how legal principles evolve over time, helping you adjust your strategy with clarity.
• Work the way you think. Whether you prefer guided discovery, precision Boolean queries, or cross-jurisdictional comparison, Clio Library adapts to your research style.

Clio Library gives lawyers time back by eliminating the guesswork in legal research. With accurate, always-current sources built right into Clio, firms can focus on their clients instead of chasing down information.

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Vincent* by Clio: AI designed for legal work

The practice of law just got supercharged, with Vincent by Clio, an unmatched legal AI tool engineered specifically for lawyers. Already trusted by the Am Law 200 firms and Fortune 500 counsel, Vincent transforms one of the world’s largest curated legal libraries into answers and insights you can stand behind.

Vincent goes beyond generic AI, delivering research, analysis, and workflow support that meets the standard of courts, clients, and regulators. From contract review to litigation strategy analysis, Vincent gives firms the precision, speed, and reliability they need to compete at scale. 

And with Clio’s focus on adoption and long-term success, firms don’t just get cutting-edge AI, they get measurable impact. Independent studies show Vincent boosts productivity by up to 115%, helping the world’s top firms work smarter and deliver more value. 

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Clio Work*: A new workspace for the practice of law

We were thrilled to introduce Clio Work, an AI-powered workspace that unites legal research, analysis, drafting, and case management in one seamless experience. By bringing together the business and practice of law, Clio Work eliminates context switching and empowers legal professionals to focus on the work that matters most, all in one place.

At the heart of Clio Work is Vincent by Clio, our AI-powered legal intelligence engine built for law and trained on billions of legal documents. Combined with the context of your matters in Clio Manage and backed by the Clio Library (the most comprehensive legal research database in the world), Clio Work delivers precise, citation-backed insights you can trust. 

With Clio Work, lawyers and legal teams benefit from:

• Smarter legal research: Ask questions in natural language and get answers grounded in trusted sources.
• Faster document analysis: Review pleadings, contracts, and correspondence with AI that flags risks, obligations, and key arguments.
• One place to work: Move seamlessly between research, drafting, and case management—without switching tools.

The result is a workspace that accelerates case prep, reduces cognitive load, and helps every firm (no matter the size) work with greater confidence. Reduce context switching and eliminate paying for third-party legal research tools. With Clio Work, everything you need to get legal work done lives in one place.

Join the waitlist to be among the first to experience Clio Work.

Manage AI: The next evolution of Clio Duo

When we launched Clio Duo at the end of last year, it quickly became a trusted assistant for thousands of legal professionals, helping them reclaim as much as five hours each week by making everyday tasks faster and easier. Now, Duo has evolved into something bigger…

Manage AI is a complete reimagining of Clio Duo, building on Duo’s foundation and expanding it into a firm-wide productivity engine living within Clio Manage. With Manage AI you can:

• Stay ahead of deadlines: Automatically extract deadlines directly from court documents, schedule key dates, and keep your calendar in sync (reducing the risk of missed deadlines).
• Plan your day with confidence: Surface priorities, reminders, and create tasks, notes, events, and expenses so it’s easier to keep matters moving forward.
• Accelerate billing and cash flow: Auto-generate draft invoices, route bills to the right approvers, set up billing parameters, and configure end-of-month billing. 
• Eliminate manual filing: Save emails, receipts, and attachments to the correct matter automatically, ensuring every file is in the right place for the right people.
• Automate workflows: Build tasks, stages, and checklists that keep matters progressing, so your staff can focus on high-value activities instead of repetitive setup.
• Compose on demand: Draft motions, letters, and client updates, and pull summarizations of lengthy documents into clear, actionable takeaways.

The result? Fewer bottlenecks, faster payments, and more bandwidth for client service. 

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Clio Draft: Now supercharged with AI

Clio Draft has always helped legal professionals save hours on document automation. Now, with AI built right in, it’s even faster and easier to go from first draft to final document.

The new AI-powered template builder lets you instantly convert your own documents into reusable templates, skipping the time-intensive setup that usually slows firms down. Once your templates are ready, AI-powered client questionnaires automatically follow up to collect the details you need, without the tedious back-and-forth of manual communication.

For Clio Draft users, this means less time spent setting up and chasing down information, and more time delivering value to clients. Firms can start automating documents from day one, freeing their teams from repetitive admin tasks and focusing on higher-value work.

The best part? Adding AI functionality comes at no additional cost to Clio Draft users.

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Additional feature announcements & updates

Beyond the major announcements, Jack also highlighted a few smaller feature releases and updates coming soon, each designed to make daily work even smoother. At Clio, we know that even the smallest improvements can create meaningful gains in efficiency and workflow. 

Conflict checks: Coming to both Clio Manage and Clio Grow, you’ll soon be able to complete conflict checks. From using your own data, you’ll be able to easily flag potential conflicts, and screen clients. This will speed up the process and allow you to spot potential issues instantly thanks to Clio Grow’s forthcoming AI-capabilities.

AI in Clio Grow: The power of AI is coming to Clio Grow! With Clio Grow’s new AI functionality you’ll be able to speed up and automate conflict checks, client screening and scoring (based on your specific parameters), send emails, and enjoy automated follow-up emails nudging clients to complete necessary forms. Client intake that moves itself forward in the background, so you have more time to focus on tasks that only you can do.

Reputation manager: You’ll soon be able to request and collect client reviews right from Clio Manage, helping your firm build credibility, strengthen client trust, and attract more of the right business.

Multi-client support: Clio Manage is introducing multi-client support, so you can manage cases with multiple plaintiffs more easily and keep every detail organized in one place.

Clio Accounting updates: Clio Accounting now supports check printing, with more updates on the way to make three-way reconciliation simpler than ever.

Clio Payments updates: We’ve been busy working on some awesome new features coming to Clio Payments:

1. Text-to-pay: This will allow your clients to receive bills and payment reminders right to their phones, increasing payment flexibility. 
2. Always on: We are improving how subscription-based pricing works inside of Clio Payments, making it easier to support billing for those long-term relationships.
3. Pay Later: Our new Pay Later feature allows for the firm to get paid up-front, while allowing the client the flexibility of paying overtime—reducing payment friction and revenue lockup.
4. Clio Capital: Last but not least, Clio Capital is coming soon, giving firms faster access to their financial data, deeper insight into cash flow, and the tools to make more strategic decisions about growth.

The latest Legal Trends Report: Key takeaways

Each year at ClioCon, we release the Legal Trends Report, a data-driven look at the forces shaping the legal profession. This year’s edition uncovers how high-performing firms are using technology to drive growth, how AI is changing daily legal work, and what today’s clients expect when choosing a lawyer. Some of the key takeaways from this year’s report include:

• AI is driving firm growth. Firms growing revenues by 20% or more adopt AI at twice the rate of peers, with nearly 70% of wide adopters seeing direct revenue gains.
• AI is improving lawyers’ lives. Out of the lawyers surveyed, 62% report less stress and 48% a better work-life balance from using AI.
• Neurological research shows tech reduces fatigue. Clio reduced cognitive strain by up to 25%, helping lawyers stay focused on clients and strategy. 
• Clients are turning to AI for answers. More than half (57%) have used or would use AI for legal help, which means firms need to be ready to respond.
• Efficiency is a growth edge. High-performing firms use 65% more features in Clio than their peers.

Want to see how these insights can shape the future of your practice? Download the full report today.

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Our 2025 Reisman Award Winners

We’re proud to celebrate the legal professionals who are redefining what’s possible in the industry. Each year, the Reisman Awards recognize firms and individuals who exemplify innovation, client commitment, and the pursuit of a more equitable legal system. This year’s winners continue to raise the bar and reflect our mission to transform the legal experience for all.

The 2025 Reisman Award recipients are:

• Best Growth Story: Lengea Law
• Best New Law Firm: Adam Benedict
• Community Champion: Texas Fair Defense Project
• Diversity & Inclusion: Legalmiga Law, P.C.
• Excellence in Client Service: O’Connor Family Law
• Legal Impact: Laviano & Gagne
• Legal Innovation: Lawlux

Learn more about the inspiring journeys of this year’s winners—and see how your firm can apply for the Reisman Awards 2026.

Integration Award Winners

Each year, the Integration Awards recognize the most innovative apps in Clio’s App Directory—tools that expand what’s possible for law firms using Clio. This year’s winners stand out for how seamlessly they help firms work smarter, serve clients better, and run stronger practices. From document automation to collections and litigation tools, these integrations are shaping the future of legal work within the Clio ecosystem.

Best New App: Vera

Vera is redefining document review and scheduling for legal professionals. Its AI extracts key dates and summaries from legal documents and syncs them directly to Clio Manage—saving hours of manual work and keeping every case on track.

Learn more about how Vera integrates with Clio. 

Best Business of Law App: Collbox

CollBox takes the stress out of collections by combining automation with a human touch. Seamlessly integrated with Clio Manage, it connects you with a dedicated A/R specialist who follows up on overdue invoices, helping your firm get paid up to 40% faster while maintaining a professional client experience.

Learn more about how Collbox integrates with Clio. 

Best Practice of Law App: Clearbrief 

Clearbrief is transforming how litigators write and research. Integrated with Clio Manage, it uses AI to instantly surface relevant discovery materials, suggest citations, and even build Tables of Authorities, all within Microsoft Word. The result: more accurate, persuasive filings in a fraction of the time.

Learn more about how Clearbrief integrates with Clio. 

Keynote Speaker Highlights 

Esther Perel: Building Bridges, Winning Cases: Mastering Relational Intelligence in Legal Practice

Renowned psychotherapist and bestselling author Esther Perel brought a deeply human perspective to the future of legal work. Drawing on her decades of experience studying relationships and workplace culture, she explored how relational intelligence, the ability to navigate trust, belonging, recognition, and resilience, shapes every successful organization. Through audience exercises and real-life case studies from Clio customers, she showed how the paradoxes lawyers face daily, between autonomy and interdependence, logic and emotion, security and adventure, can actually be powerful sources of connection and creativity when managed intentionally. 

Her keynote reminded attendees that while law is built on evidence, it’s powered by relationships—and strengthening those relationships is key to building healthier, more collaborative, and more fulfilling firms.

Richard Susskind: How to Think About AI

Professor Richard Susskind OBE, KC (Hon), challenged the ClioCon audience to look beyond automation and imagine how artificial intelligence will truly transform justice. Drawing on decades of research, from his early work in AI law in the 1980s to today’s generative breakthroughs, he reminded us that we’re still in the early chapters of AI’s story.

Susskind outlined six hypotheses for where humanity and AI may intersect, from short-term hype to the possibility of artificial general intelligence and even superintelligence. While opinions differ, one thing is clear: the pace of progress is accelerating, and adoption lags behind, it’s time for lawyers to dive in. For firms, the competitive edge will belong to those who embrace innovation rather than resist it.

He urged legal professionals to think beyond efficiency gains and consider how AI can help deliver legal outcomes in new, client-centered ways. In the short term, AI will improve productivity; in the long term, it will reshape how people access and experience justice.

JJ Velazquez: From Sing Sing to the Supreme Court: Resilience, Reform, and the Power of Gratitude

Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez’s keynote reminded us why justice reform is deeply human work. Speaking to thousands of legal professionals, both in-person at virtually, JJ shared his powerful journey from wrongful conviction to full exoneration after 27 years behind bars. His story exposed the cracks in our legal system while spotlighting the resilience, purpose, and gratitude that carried him through unimaginable hardship.

JJ’s message was one of hope and responsibility. He called on the legal community to use its influence to build a fairer, more compassionate system—one that listens, reforms, and never loses sight of the people behind every case. His words left the audience inspired to lead with empathy and use the law as a true force for good.

Highlights from ClioCon sessions and workshops

ClioCon is packed with learning, inspiration, and connection, and the following sessions are just a glimpse into the incredible range of content attendees could explore. 

From in-person workshops in Boston to live-streamed virtual sessions, every experience is designed to help legal professionals level up their practice and reimagine what’s possible with technology:

How Legal AI Is Different (and Why It Really Matters!)

Live from Boston, Clio’s Staff Product Designer, Andrew Fung, showed ClioCon attendees that artificial intelligence isn’t just transforming Big Law. It’s empowering solos and small firms to work smarter right now. Attendees left inspired by how approachable legal AI tools are for firms of any size, from automating client communications to generating documents and managing admin tasks in minutes. The session broke down the myths around AI and made it clear that you don’t need a tech background to start saving time and focusing on what matters most: your clients.

​​Legal Design Thinking: Reimagining Client-Centered Legal Services

Kim Bennett, founder of Fidu, joined by Clio’s Vice President of Product Marketing, Carrie Elstner, led an engaging in-person session at ClioCon on how thoughtful design can transform the way lawyers communicate, collaborate, and deliver client-centered legal services. The session offered a practical look at how simplifying complex processes and creating user-friendly documents can build trust and deepen client engagement. Attendees learned how to apply design thinking principles to make every client interaction clearer, more intuitive, and more impactful. It was a standout reminder that great client experiences don’t happen by accident—they’re designed with care and intention.

Unlocking Your Firm’s Potential: A Roadmap for Successful Scalability With Clio

During this in-person session, Clio’s Director of Product, Mid-Market and Enterprise, Jarryd McCree helped mid- to large-sized firms navigate what it truly takes to scale with confidence. He walked attendees through the growing pains that come with expansion, from maintaining visibility and consistency to improving firm-wide efficiency, and showed how Clio’s suite of tools is built to meet those challenges. Participants also got an exclusive look at Clio’s roadmap for larger firms, including new features designed to make scaling smoother and smarter. The session reinforced Clio’s dedication to empowering firms at every stage of their growth journey.

Building an Integrated Legal Technology Stack

In this virtual session Integral’s Owner and Chief Tech Expert, Burton Kelso, energized attendees with a practical look at how to make technology work for their firm. Through real-world examples and clear, actionable advice, he showed how the right mix of tools can simplify operations, improve collaboration, and free up time for client work. Lawyers left inspired to take a more strategic approach to their tech—one where every system connects, every workflow runs smoothly, and every minute saved fuels a more efficient and future-ready firm.

(Don’t) Go for Broke: Mastering Smarter, Faster Law Firm Finance Techniques

In this virtual session, Robert Gauvreau, Founder and CEO at Gauvreau, and Emil Abedian, CPA at Counsel CPAs, joined by Clio’s Alex MacGillivray, VP, Corporate Controller, shared practical strategies to help solo and small firm lawyers take control of their finances. The session covered everything from setting competitive, profitable rates to implementing automated billing systems and improving cash flow. Attendees learned how Clio’s tools make it easier to manage their firm’s finances with confidence, reduce lockup periods, and get paid faster. It was an empowering reminder that financial stability isn’t just good business, it’s the foundation for long-term growth.

How to Grow Sustainable Law Firms: A Reisman Panel Talk

In this virtual session attendees heard directly from this year’s Reisman Award winners for Best Growth Story and Best New Law Firm. The panel shared powerful, real-world insights on building sustainable growth through innovation, client focus, and smart use of technology. Each firm offered practical takeaways that other legal professionals can apply to their own practices, proving that growth doesn’t have to come at the expense of balance or purpose. It was an inspiring reminder that when firms learn from one another, the entire legal community moves forward together.

ClioCon 2026: Attend in Boston, or from anywhere

As we close another incredible ClioCon, one thing is clear: when the brightest minds in legal come together, the possibilities are limitless. And the journey doesn’t end here.

We’re heading back to Boston, MA, October 26–27, for ClioCon 2026, where we’ll Go Beyond Limits together. Join thousands of legal professionals from around the world to learn, connect, and explore the ideas shaping the future of law.

Whether you join us in Boston or online, you’ll experience the same energy, insights, and inspiration that make ClioCon the most talked-about event in legal tech. With Virtual ClioCon, you’ll get front-row access to every keynote, product announcement, and CLE-eligible sessions, streamed live and available on demand.

No matter how you attend, you’ll be part of a community that’s pushing the boundaries of what’s possible for the legal industry.

Passes are on sale now. Reserve your spot today and take advantage of early-bird pricing!

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