Clio CEO Jack Newton unveiled new products, features, and an acquisition at this year’s ClioCon
In a keynote speech at ClioCon, Clio’s annual conference for legal professionals, Clio chief executive officer and founder Jack Newton brought up a claim about the legal industry that he wanted to challenge.
“People call lawyers laggers – reluctant to change or adopt new technology,” Newton said Wednesday.
That’s never been his personal observation, Newton continued. “People may mistake your reluctance, your scrutiny for reluctance,” he told his audience. “But the truth is you ask hard questions. You need to know whether technology is good enough for you and for your clients, and that same instinct that makes you question a weak answer makes you look for a better way.
“And when you find a better way to serve your clients,” he added, “Boy, do you ever move.”
Newton argued that this was true of the legal industry's approach to AI. He pointed to a report that OpenAI published in August, which partly examines the use of Codex, the company’s AI agent that performs software engineering tasks such as writing code and fixing bugs. According to the report, legal professionals were the fastest-growing group of weekly Codex users between February and June 2026, with their numbers increasing 108-fold.
In comparison, the number of sales, accounting, and recruiting professionals using Codex each week grew 41-fold over the same period, while the number of marketing and communications professionals using the AI agent grew 26-fold.
The OpenAI report contains “one of the best data sets demonstrating how quickly lawyers are moving to adopt AI,” Newton argued.
“What this is ultimately enabling is lawyers to serve more people, for more people to be able to access justice,” he added. “That has been our mission from the very beginning, to transform the legal experience for all.”
ClioCon hosted more than 3,000 in-person attendees and another 8,500 virtual attendees on its first day, Newton said. The conference took place in Boston this year on Wednesday and Thursday.
As with last year’s ClioCon, Newton took the opportunity to unveil a large suite of new products and features, including a new document management system, a business phone system, and an AI assistant across its platform.
Newton announced that the company acquired Page, an AI platform that monitors legislative and regulatory activity across the US.
“It captures committee hearings as they happen, surfaces why bills are being proposed,” Newton said of Page. “It surfaces objections lawmakers are raising, and the positions that industry groups are taking before official records are even available. You can follow the same issues across jurisdictions and see important changes earlier.”
The news comes months after the company announced its acquisition of Canadian legal AI and data company Jurisage.
Newton also unveiled a new brand identity for the company and a 2026 legal trends report based on surveys of US consumers and legal professionals.
Next year’s ClioCon will take place in Seattle.
