The story behind today's platform began with two companies reimagining different aspects of legal work.
In 2000, Lluis and Angel Faus founded vLex in Barcelona with a vision to make legal knowledge more accessible through technology. Over the next two decades, that vision grew into one of the world's most comprehensive legal intelligence platforms, spanning hundreds of jurisdictions and serving legal professionals across the globe. Through continuous investment in legal content, analytics, and AI, vLex helped redefine how lawyers access, analyze, and apply legal knowledge, culminating in Vincent and a new generation of AI-powered legal workflows.
At the same time, Clio was transforming how legal professionals run their firms and serve clients. Founded in 2008 by Jack Newton and Rian Gauvreau, Clio pioneered cloud-based legal technology at a time when much of the legal industry still relied on on-premise systems. Over the years, Clio grew into the world's leading legal software platform, helping law firms manage client relationships, operations, finances, and legal work while advancing its mission to transform the legal experience for all.
As both organizations continued to innovate, their paths became increasingly aligned. The combination of vLex and Fastcase in 2023 created one of the world's most comprehensive legal databases, bringing together legal content, authority data, dockets, and analytics at unprecedented scale. At the same time, Clio continued to deepen its role at the center of legal work, becoming the system of record for millions of matters and the day-to-day workflows that power law firms around the world.
Both companies were also early leaders in applying AI to legal work. vLex pioneered AI-powered legal research and analysis through Vincent, while Clio invested in intelligent workflows built on the rich context of client relationships, documents, communications, and matters. Together, they were advancing complementary visions of the future: one grounded in the world's legal knowledge, the other in the real-world practice of law.
In 2025, Clio acquired vLex, bringing together two leaders that had spent decades advancing different parts of the legal profession. For the first time, the industry's leading legal software platform could be combined with one of the world's largest legal libraries and one of its most advanced legal AI systems.
The significance of that moment extends beyond scale. Legal AI is most powerful when it can understand both the law and the context of the matter at hand. By bringing together the world's most comprehensive legal knowledge with the rich matter context that exists inside Clio, the combined platform created the foundation for a new generation of legal intelligence: one that understands not only legal authority, but also the clients, documents, communications, workflows, and business realities behind every case.
Together, Clio and vLex took a major step toward realizing a shared vision for the intelligent legal work platform, bringing the business of law and the practice of law together in a way that had never been possible before.
