Clio acquires Learned Hand, an AI company for courts, judges
Clio has been preparing to make a move into the judicial market. (Image from Clio’s Sept. 30 press release)
Clio has been preparing to make a move into the judicial market.
On Wednesday, the company made its first splash, announcing in a Sept. 30 press release that it had acquired Learned Hand, a company that designs artificial intelligence tools specifically for judges, clerks and court officials. Terms were not disclosed.
“AI is changing the pace and volume of legal work across the entire system, but that progress only matters if the courts can keep up,” said Jack Newton, the CEO and a co-founder of Clio—which is also an advertiser with the ABA Journal—in the press release.
“If lawyers and litigants can move dramatically faster while judges and court teams remain constrained by the same capacity, the bottleneck simply shifts to the courts. We have spent nearly two decades building the technology, legal data and infrastructure that connect the legal system. Learned Hand gives us the opportunity to bring that foundation directly into the judiciary and help build courts that are as capable, modern and resilient as the legal system around them increasingly demands,” Newton added.
According to the press release, Learned Hand is already being used by the courts throughout the United States, including the Los Angeles County Superior Court. The company designs tools specifically for judges, clerks and court officials, allowing them to work with products that are based on their actual workflows and data, instead of forcing them to adapt to or make do with programs built for lawyers.
“We started Learned Hand because judges and clerks needed technology built around the realities of judicial work, especially as the volume and complexity of matters continued to grow,” said Shlomo Klapper, the founder and the CEO of Learned Hand, in the press release. “We’ve had the privilege of building alongside judges and learning what it takes for technology to earn a place in the courtroom. With Clio, we can take everything we’ve learned and built for the judiciary at a scale this opportunity deserves.”
The move capped a busy month for Clio’s new judicially focused business. In late August, Clio hired Pablo Arredondo—a co-founder of Casetext and a 2017 Journal Legal Rebel—to be the senior vice president of the judiciary group. In September, Clio then added Bridget Mary McCormack—a former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, the CEO of the American Arbitration Association and a 2021 Journal Legal Rebel—as the group’s general manager.
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