Clio

Clio is a cloud legal work platform used by law firms and legal teams to run matters, client intake, billing, and legal research in a single system. Following its US$1 billion acquisition of vLex, completed in November 2025, Clio pairs practice management with AI-powered research and analysis drawn from legal material spanning more than 110 jurisdictions.

Key features of Clio include:

• Clio Manage: Handles matter management, document storage, calendaring, task assignment, time tracking, and billing so every matter carries one record of work, deadlines, and fees.
• Vincent AI: Applies vLex legal AI to research, document analysis, argument building, and drafting, grounded in an editorially enriched global collection of case law and legislation.
• Clio Grow: Runs client intake and CRM with online intake forms, e-signature, automated follow-up, and pipeline reporting that feeds accepted matters straight into Clio Manage.
• Clio Draft: Automates document assembly from firm templates and court forms, populating them with existing matter data to remove manual re-keying and formatting work.
• Billing And Accounting: Covers time capture, trust accounting, online client payments, and Clio Accounting, with a client-facing portal through Clio for Clients.

Best for: Solo practitioners, small and mid-sized law firms, and lean legal teams that want practice management, intake, billing, and AI legal research on one cloud platform.

Clio removes the administrative friction between winning a client and getting paid, giving legal teams one place to manage work, research issues, and see how the practice is performing.