Ed Walters

Clio Completes Historic $1 Billion vLex Acquisition, Announces $500 Million Series G at $5 Billion Valuation, Plus Exclusive Interview with CEO and CFO 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....

Phenomenal #legaltech journalism (as always) from @bobambrogi.bsky.social on @goclio.bsky.social's historic financing and acquisition announcements today.

While laudatory, Bob gives key context and sets some high expectations for Clio to meet in the future.

www.lawnext.com/2025/11/clio...

@joshualenon.bsky.social has the definitive breakdown of Jack Newton’s #ClioCon 2025 keynote. Best #ClioCon keynote ever. Epic.

No longer on the outside looking in!

Even the jabots are less interesting!

(d) obsessively scroll back through the brief and look for paragraphs that have one or two words in the last line, then re-write the paragraphs so that they are a word and line shorter, then repeat until your signature block doesn't break the page. (Obviously.)

Great - I think the American public is now the only group that doesn’t have a copy of PACER.

At least they're not hitting it with a hockey stick while it's playing!

That's a pretty good one . . .

Airbags for the gunwale of boats.

Baseball cap with removable visor insert to make it machine washable.

Roomba snow plow.

Breathalyzer for Congressional voting machines.

Women's shoe with removable heel.

A computer peripheral that prints scents.

Telescoping snorkel.

Solar windshield cover that keeps your car cool and charges it while you park.

Plastic attachments for the tops of glasses to keep the rain out.

Massage shoe inserts.

Customizable LED bumper stickers.

Inflatable tent for camping on a lake. <boom!>

For what it’s worth, I think the real value of these tools is to allow lawyers to do measurably better work for their clients in the same number of hours (or to bill more as a flat fee).

If Alex wins, we’ll put these in our system ASAP. So far we have 145 of these: www.courtlistener.com?type=o&q=&ty...

Best airport food in America. No contest.

The fifth anniversary of the great WFH for COVID-19. I hope we can heed the important lessons we learned about community and preparedness. If you really want to remember, Wired magazine collected this great history of March 11, 2020, the day that changed everything. www.wired.com/story/an-ora...

Thanks, @joshualenon.bsky.social - means so much coming from you! (We were big supporters of Casetext, and I hope we’re innovating with the same fighting spirit!)

You can only see the 2D candy from certain angles.

And you'll find many more Vincent #AI workflows for dockets - profile lawyers, judges, parties, or law firms. Or find me a template - something already filed that would be a good starting point for my work. Enjoy the Winter '25 release of Vincent AI from vLex!

We're also opening the beta for Vincent Studio, a makerspace for the world's most innovative law firms to create their own tools using vLex data, tools from Vincent, and the firm's own expertise and use cases.

Exclusive: With Its Latest Release Out Today, vLex’s Vincent AI Adds Multi-Modal Capabilities, Litigation Workflows, and Coverage for Four New Countries 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...

❄️Today we're announcing the Winter '25 Release of Vincent #AI from vLex! With this release, Vincent is now multimodal, and we're adding the first AI workflow tools for Hong Kong, Italy, Peru, and Ecuador! @bobambrogi.bsky.social has an exclusive preview of the Winter '25 release here.

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