Vancouver legaltech giant Clio is expanding its ambitions beyond law firms with plans to develop a dedicated product line for courts and judges.
The company has appointed Casetext co-founder Pablo Arredondo as Senior Vice President, Judiciary, tasking the legal AI pioneer with leading Clio’s strategy as it moves further into the court system. Arredondo will join Clio on August 31.
“For nearly two decades, Clio has been building toward an ambitious and expansive vision for the role technology can play across the legal system,” said Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton.
“We transformed how law firms run their businesses, expanded into the substantive work of law, and are now bringing that same focus to the judiciary.”
Clio said its move into the judiciary responds to growing caseloads, increasingly complex matters, and court resources that have failed to keep pace.
The company already supports interactions between law firms and courts through court rules and filing tools, as well as Clio Docket, which brings court monitoring and access to more than one billion court records into Clio Work.
Under Arredondo’s leadership, Clio will establish a judiciary product line designed around the distinct requirements of courts and judges. He will also help shape future AI capabilities across Clio’s broader platform.
Technology developed for the judiciary will need to meet a higher threshold than conventional legal software, according to Clio, including protections for judicial independence and impartiality alongside rigorous standards for transparency, security, and the integrity of judicial decision-making.
“The judiciary is fundamentally different from any other part of the legal system, and technology built for courts has to reflect that,” Arredondo said.
“AI can give judges more powerful ways to navigate complex records, arguments, and law, but it has to be developed with a deep respect for judicial independence and the rigor of the decision-making process.”
Arredondo practised as a patent litigator at Kirkland & Ellis and Quinn Emanuel before co-founding Casetext in 2013.
At Casetext, he helped develop CARA, an AI-powered brief analysis tool, and later CoCounsel, an early generative AI assistant for legal professionals. His work earned him recognition as an ALM Innovator of the Year in 2023.
Arredondo is also a graduate of Stanford Law School, a fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, and a member of the New York and California bars.
Clio’s entry into the judiciary builds on its US$1-billion acquisition of legal intelligence platform vLex in 2025. The deal added case law, dockets, and court records to a platform Clio says is used by more than 400,000 legal professionals across over 130 countries.
“Clio has the technology, legal data, scale, and long-term ambition to build this the right way,” Arredondo said. “We have a chance to define what responsible AI for the judiciary should look like.”
The expansion reflects Clio’s broader goal of building technology for the full legal system rather than focusing exclusively on law firm operations.
“Law firms are part of an interconnected justice system,” Newton said. “Lawyers, clients, courts, judges, and institutions all experience the consequences of how that system works. Our ambition is to build technology that can make the entire system work better.”