Clio Work connects your matters with the world's largest global law library to deliver cited legal research, document analysis, and case strategy. With Clio Work, your firm can leverage AI-powered research the moment your matters require substantive legal work.
Note: Clio Work is designed to support the substantive practice of law, not replace professional judgment. All research, analysis, and document outputs generated by Vincent AI require final review and due diligence by a qualified legal professional.
What is Clio Work?
Clio Work is the legal research and AI analysis product within the Clio suite. It provides access to Vincent AI, an assistant that understands the context of your matters alongside the Clio Library. Vincent is a conversational AI assistant. You can type questions, instructions, or descriptions of outcomes in plain language, and Vincent responds with research, analysis, or draft documents based on your input and the context of the selected matter for firms with Clio Manage.
Learn what Vincent AI can do
Vincent AI offers structured workflow cards as starting points for common legal tasks:
- Research: Vincent answers jurisdiction-specific legal questions backed by cited primary and secondary authorities from the Clio Library.
- Document analysis: Vincent extracts key information from contracts, complaints, depositions, and other uploaded files and suggests next steps based on the content.
- Argument building: Vincent synthesizes your case facts with legal research to draft structured positions for motions, briefs, and strategy memos.
- Document comparison: Vincent analyzes multiple files side by side and produces a structured summary of key differences and commonalities.
- Large-scale document review: Vincent extracts and compares structured data points across up to 500 documents using Vincent Tables.
- Jurisdiction comparison: Vincent compares laws, standards, and requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
- Complaint analysis: Vincent analyzes complaints to identify claims, defenses, and recommended responses.
- Timeline creation: Vincent generates chronological timelines from your case facts and uploaded documents.
Vincent AI can also help you draft documents and communications:
- Legal Pad document drafting: Vincent creates standalone documents you can review, revise, and export from within Clio Work.
- Citator and precedent tools: Vincent verifies whether case law remains good authority using color-coded treatment indicators and the US Case Citator (Cert).
Tip: If a feature described in a sales demonstration or marketing material is not listed above, it may not yet be available in your account. Contact Clio Support to confirm current availability.
Access Clio Work
Clio Work is available to firms with an active Clio subscription. Users with Clio Manage can access Clio Work from the product switcher.
In the top left corner of Clio Manage, select Clio Work from the product switcher dropdown.
Note: Clio Work uses the state listed in your Mailing Address in Clio Manage as the default jurisdiction for research. To update this before your first session, navigate to Settings > Account and Payment Info > Account Info.
Identify your first workflow
Your first interaction with Vincent depends on where you are in the matter lifecycle:
- New matter, no documents yet: Start with Ask Research Questions in Clio Work to establish the legal landscape.
- Documents in hand, need analysis: Start with Analyze Legal Documents in Clio Work to extract key facts and suggested next steps.
- Preparing for advocacy: Start with Build Arguments in Clio Work to structure a legal position from your research and case files.
- Exploring capabilities by practice area: See Explore Vincent by Practice Area for suggested prompts and workflows organized by 14 practice areas.
- Not sure where to begin: Follow the step-by-step onboarding path in Get Started: Learn the Basics of Clio Work.
Understand the Clio Library
Vincent answers research questions by retrieving and analyzing documents from the Clio Library, a database of over one billion primary law sources, dockets, and secondary materials from more than 100 countries. Clio Library is continuously updated and accessible through both Vincent conversations and direct search.
When you ask Vincent a research question (highlighted purple when selected), Vincent queries the Library and returns cited sources in the Legal Authorities panel next to the response. These sources include:
- Primary law: Constitutions, statutes, regulations, administrative materials, rules, and case law.
- Secondary sources: Journals, books, practice notes, jury verdicts, forms, and corporate filings.
Tip: You can also search Clio Library from the left navigation panel in Clio Work without starting a Vincent conversation. For detailed guidance on searching, filtering, and verifying sources, see Search and Filter in Clio Library.
To learn how to navigate Vincent's workspace, locate workflow cards, and manage conversation history, see Navigate Vincent in Clio Work.
Up Next
- See Get Started: Learn the Basics of Clio Work to follow the structured onboarding path from initial setup through your first completed workflow.