How Clio will leverage its $1 billion V-Lex acquisition
Jack Newton finally revealed how the AI integration will work—and it changes everything about legal practice.
Jack Newton dropped a bombshell at ClioCon 2025.
Not the V-Lex acquisition—we knew that was happening.
The bombshell was showing exactly how this AI integration will transform legal work.
The real story
This isn’t about Clio getting bigger. It’s about building something that’s never existed: an “Intelligent Legal Work Platform” that connects practice management with actual legal work.
For the first time, your case files will talk to legal research. Your deadlines will trigger document drafts. Your client intake will run conflict checks automatically.
What’s actually changing
Clio Work launches this year at $199/month per user. It combines:
The world’s largest legal database (1 billion documents, 110 countries)
Vincent AI, which doesn’t hallucinate because it’s grounded in real legal data
Complete integration with your existing Clio matters
Think of it as ChatGPT for lawyers—but it actually knows the law.
Your AI teammates are here:
Manage AI extracts deadlines from court orders and drafts client updates
Grow AI handles entire client intake automatically
Draft AI turns your old documents into reusable templates
Why this matters now
Newton spelled out the opportunity: 77% of legal problems never reach lawyers because of cost and complexity.
That’s not just an access to justice problem—it’s a $3 trillion untapped market.
AI won’t replace lawyers. But lawyers using AI will replace lawyers who don’t.
The uncomfortable truth
While Newton was announcing game-changing AI integration, most lawyers are still debating whether to use ChatGPT.
The gap between early adopters and everyone else just became a chasm.
What’s next
Clio spent 17 years moving law firms to the cloud. Now they’re betting the next decade on AI.
The question isn’t whether AI will transform legal practice. It’s whether you’ll be part of that transformation or left behind by it.
Want to stay ahead of these changes? Join lawyers who are already using AI effectively in my Inner Circle.
;-)
Ernie
P.S. If you want to see an extensive Granola AI summary of Newton’s talk, click here.