Clio launches its platform for the first time in Spain with the arrival of two products: Clio Manage and Clio Work. Together, they allow law firms to manage both business activity and legal work from a single system, replacing the combination of spreadsheets, paper files and standalone tools that many firms still rely on.
This launch represents a new milestone in a story that began 25 years ago in Spain, long before Clio hit the market, and that dates back to the beginnings of vLex. Over the last quarter of a century, the Barcelona-based company has built one of the most comprehensive legal databases in the world in Spain, bringing together case law, legislation and legal documents from dozens of countries into a single, searchable, verified legal source used by lawyers, courts and legal researchers around the world.
Long before “legal AI” became an industry-wide topic of discussion, vLex was already doing the most complex and least visible work behind it: gathering and structuring the trusted legal data that any trustworthy legal AI would come to rely on. All of this allowed Spain to be positioned as one of the main global references in legaltech.
vLex’s cutting-edge legal intelligence platform
And it is thanks to this trajectory that in 2025 Clio joined vLex through the largest technological acquisition in the history of Spain. A $1 billion deal that combined Clio’s legal operating system with vLex’s cutting-edge legal intelligence platform, including Vincent, its innovative artificial intelligence, based on a global legal database of more than one billion editorially enriched documents. For the past six months, Clio and vLex have worked as a single company, directly integrating vLex’s legal database into the Clio platform and investing again in the Spanish market to make this moment possible.
Today, that investment is materialized for legal professionals in Spain through Clio Manage and Clio Work. Clio Manage is the office management technology that allows you to track files, manage client billing, organize calendars and deadlines, and centralize communications, all from a single place. On the other hand, Clio Work, the next evolution of Vincent, is the space where lawyers develop their own legal work: they draft documents, carry out jurisprudential searches and prepare briefs, all based on verified legal data from vLex. Together, both products allow the firm’s entire activity to be managed, from business aspects to the legal work itself, in a single system, something that Spanish firms had not had access to until now.
“In Spain, almost 90% of the firms are made up of five lawyers or less,” says Ferran Sala, general director of Clio in Spain. “It is precisely these offices that can least afford to waste time managing tools that are not connected to each other. Clio Work and Clio Manage allow them to dedicate a greater part of their day to the work that really requires their attention. This represents a before and after for the practice of law, and we are delighted to finally be able to bring it to Spain.”
Mass adoption of technology
Precisely among these professionals, the adoption of artificial intelligence is already widespread in Spain. Nearly 90% of legal professionals working on their own or in small firms have already adopted this technology, and 53% say its use is permitted and encouraged. Generic AI is also the most used category of artificial intelligence among these professionals, with 52%.
Both products, Clio Manage and Clio Work, are available separately or as part of an integrated platform that addresses one of the main challenges faced by Spanish lawyers: having to constantly switch from one tool to another. Spanish lawyers spend more time alternating between different tools than on the legal work itself. A single task may involve using a legal research platform, a word processor, new client onboarding documents, and LexNET. Every piece of information in a matter, from a client’s name to a deadline, has to be re-entered and verified every time you move from one tool to another. This lost time is not a one-time inconvenience, but a cost that legal professionals assume every day.
The adoption of artificial intelligence also shows relevant differences in results depending on the type of tool used. Among those who have already incorporated this technology, firms that use legal-specific solutions are more likely to report an improvement in the quality or value of their work (87% vs. 78%) and faster response to clients (89% vs. 80%) than those that do not use them. Likewise, firms whose AI toolset includes generic solutions are less likely to say that AI has reduced their operating costs (66% vs. 88%). These differences remain even after taking into account the size of the firm and the degree of adoption of AI.
Clio’s presence in Spain reflects the global dimension of a company with more than 400,000 customers in 130 countries
“This launch is both a homecoming and a launch in itself,” said Jack Newton, CEO and founder of Clio. “vLex has been building a reliable legal database in Spain for 25 years, and that work has quietly contributed to shaping legal AI far beyond the country’s borders. Today we make all that work available to Spanish lawyers within a platform designed for the way they practice the profession.”
Legal technology and legal content
“Spain occupies a central place in our global expansion strategy,” says Sarah Murphy, international general director of Clio. “In most of the markets we reach, we built our presence from scratch. In Spain, on the other hand, we already had 25 years of leadership in legal technology through vLex, work that has contributed to shaping legal research and legal AI far beyond the country’s borders. The launch of Clio Manage and Clio Work allows us to start directly from that base, in the market where it all began, and precisely for this reason Spain represents one of the most important steps in our international growth in this moment.”
Clio’s presence in Spain reflects the global dimension of a company with more than 400,000 clients in 130 countries, around 2,500 employees and more than 10 offices around the world, with Barcelona being its headquarters in Spain, where it already has more than 150 employees. The launch also occurs after the incorporation of vLex to Clio, an operation that integrated the Spanish company, specialized in legal technology and legal content, into the Clio global platform.
With more than 25 years of experience, vLex is part of the history of legal technology in Spain and contributes to the launch of Clio a component of continuity: the company is not starting from scratch in the Spanish market, but is expanding a trajectory that began a quarter of a century ago.
Clio Manage and Clio Work from vLex are available today for legal professionals throughout Spain.
