{"id":141316,"date":"2026-07-23T19:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/141316\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:21:09","slug":"clios-ai-assistant-for-legal-work-comes-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/141316\/","title":{"rendered":"Clio\u2019s AI assistant for legal work comes to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian product was built on case law dataset from Clio\u2019s Jurisage acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SUB: Canadian product was built on case law dataset from Clio\u2019s Jurisage acquisition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canadian legaltech giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clio.com\/ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Clio<\/a> has launched an AI work assistant in Canada after it saw success among its US customers, the company said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The news: Burnaby, BC-based Clio announced on Thursday that it is launching Clio Work, its AI-powered workspace for lawyers and legal professionals, across Canada. Clio Work allows lawyers to use generative AI tools to summarize cases by pulling from filings and transcripts, pull up relevant case law and suggest arguments, and draft legal documents. It\u2019s already available in the US and other, smaller markets,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the source: \u201cClio Work is our fastest-adopted product in Clio\u2019s history in terms of metrics,\u201d Luke Slan, Canada manager for Clio, said in an interview with BetaKit. \u201cFor lawyers, [they\u2019re] just minimizing the amount of hours on non-billable work, and finding ways to be doing more business development.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the thread: Clio said that its recent <a href=\"https:\/\/betakit.com\/clio-acquires-fellow-canadian-legaltech-firm-jurisage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">acquisition of Toronto startup Jurisage<\/a> made it possible to launch the product in Canada. That\u2019s because with Jurisage, Clio bought a comprehensive legal dataset that spans more than 470,000 cases across over 40 courts. This data allows lawyers using the platform to query and pull from a corpus of Canadian case law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slan said that Clio\u2019s $1-billion USD ($1.4-billion CAD) <a href=\"https:\/\/betakit.com\/clio-to-acquire-american-legaltech-vlex-for-1-billion-usd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">acquisition of vLex<\/a> last year allowed it to do the same thing in the US, because of its comprehensive <a href=\"https:\/\/betakit.com\/clio-secures-500-million-usd-series-g-as-it-completes-vlex-acquisition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">legal database<\/a>. The BC firm <a href=\"https:\/\/betakit.com\/clio-takes-alexi-to-court-over-database-at-the-centre-of-billion-dollar-vlex-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sued<\/a> another Canadian legaltech startup, Alexi, for allegedly breaching the terms of a data-licensing agreement concerning the database. Alexi has since <a href=\"https:\/\/betakit.com\/alexi-escalates-legal-fight-with-clio-by-filing-antitrust-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">countersued<\/a> Clio for alleged anticompetitive behaviour. A judgment hearing in Washington, DC, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnext.com\/2026\/07\/fastcase-and-alexi-head-to-court-this-week-in-high-stakes-fight-over-legal-ai-caselaw-data-and-clios-1b-vlex-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">scheduled for July 8<\/a>, and both parties are awaiting a ruling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Final thought: While a Clio report released earlier this year found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clio.com\/ca\/guides\/legal-trends-report-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">95 percent of Canadian lawyers<\/a> are using AI in their work, not all of them are using the tech properly. Just last week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/6-month-suspension-for-toronto-lawyer-who-cited-fake-chatgpt-cases-blamed-law-student-faced-contempt-of-court-hearing-went-back-to-chatgpt-for-advice\/article_a27cd891-183f-4e1e-a48a-e781ab813a22.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Toronto Star reported<\/a> that the Law Society of Ontario suspended a Toronto lawyer who had cited fake cases generated by ChatGPT, then returned to the chatbot for help preparing for her hearing. Slan claims that Clio Work would avoid this problem since its AI operates in a closed system grounded in verifiable case law\u2014but cautions that lawyers must read everything they sign off on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feature image courtesy Clio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian product was built on case law dataset from Clio\u2019s Jurisage acquisition. &#13; SUB: Canadian product was built&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1660,46563,238,32124,17,32937,32938,27452,46564,46561,18466,46562],"class_list":["post-141316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ai","tag-alexi","tag-bc","tag-briefs","tag-canada","tag-clio","tag-jurisage","tag-legal","tag-legaltech","tag-luke-slan","tag-saas","tag-vlex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}