You’re using AI. Why isn’t it paying off?
Our 2026 report calls it the “efficiency paradox,” and most solo practitioners and small firms are living with it. Ask about AI itself and you’ll hear that it’s improved the quality of the work, cut down the tedious parts of the day, and helped them get back
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Why Working Faster Isn’t Making Your Solo Practice More Profitable (And What to Do About It)
Want the full data behind what’s working at the firms growing revenue with AI? Download Clio’s 2026 Legal Trends for Solo and Small Law Firms.
Solo and small law firm AI adoption: Why revenue gains are lagging
Day-to-day, the picture in most smaller firms is encouraging. The 2026 Legal Trends for Solo and Small …
AI Hallucinations in Legal Filings: How to Avoid Them and What to Do When You Find Them
By Ed Walters
What AI hallucinations in law actually are
In a legal context, AI hallucinations are one of two things. They’re either citations to cases or statutes that don’t exist, or citations to real authorities for propositions those authorities don’t actually support.
The first kind is the one making headlines. A lawyer or pro se litigant uses…
Expanding the Frontier of Legal Agentic Work: GPT-5.5 Support in Clio Work and Vincent
By Angel Faus
With the launch of OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, we are upgrading every Clio Work and Vincent customer to the new model for agentic work and document drafting. The upgrade sets a new bar for what Clio’s AI can do on substantive legal tasks, and is the foundation for the next wave of autonomous legal capability we are…
What ABA TECHSHOW 2026’s Startup Alley Tells Us About Where Legal Tech Is Going
By Damien Riehl
From chatbots to agentic AI in legal technology
Chatbots are easy to adopt. Lawyers have told us that. But there’s a long way between typing a question into a chat window and getting something you can actually file, send, or hand to a client. You still have to know what to ask, how to sequence…
Legal Pricing Strategies for Law Firms: From Billable Hours to Data-Driven Pricing
Why the billable hour alone no longer works
Let’s be honest: The billable hour has always been a leaky bucket. While it’s treated as the gold standard for legal pricing strategies, only a fraction of recorded hours actually becomes collected cash.
Lawyers face losses at multiple points in the revenue funnel, across utilization, realization,…
Why Legal AI Fails Without Context
By Joshua Lenon
Context is the foundation of useful legal AI
The most important information in a legal case lives across the matter and the firm: the documents, the emails, the timeline, the jurisdiction, the client’s history, and the firm’s own work product. Legal AI without access to all of it is working blind, only as good as…
How to Summarize Legal Documents With AI: Tools, Risks, and Workflow Best Practices
By Damien Riehl
Can AI summarize legal documents?
The short answer is yes: Among AI’s best use cases in law is summarizing legal documents. It isn’t, however, foolproof, and its performance depends largely on the chosen tool. Any tool’s capabilities and limitations are best understood by viewing legal AI summarization as a spectrum:
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GEO for Law Firms: How to Stay Visible When AI Changes the Rules
How AI search works (and why it’s different from Google)
AI search is any search experience where artificial intelligence synthesizes information from multiple sources and presents a generated answer. Instead of ten blue links, users get a direct summary, sometimes with linked citations.
The most common forms right now include:
- Google AI Overviews, which
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Debunking AI Myths Legal Professionals Still Believe
AI Myth 1: AI will one day replace legal judgment
Will AI replace lawyers? This concern often surfaces when people see AI generate legal language. Drafting, summarizing, outlining, and issue-spotting sit close enough to legal reasoning that it can feel as though judgment itself is being encroached upon.
The Legal Trends Report shows that AI’s…