Canadian AI legal management platform Clio has hired former Casetext co-founder Pablo Arredondo as senior vice president of judiciary.
In his new role, Arredondo will lead a team focused on building legal AI specifically for the judiciary, helping courts navigate growing caseloads, assess increasingly complex matters and access and reason across the legal information needed to support judicial decision-making.
The company says courts are facing technological change, and subsequently their resources must be strengthened to protect judicial independence and impartiality, and meet standards for transparency and security. It has turned to Arredondo to lead this now priority area.
He will also help shape the next generation of AI capabilities across Clio’s wider platform and report to Clio’s chief product officer John Foreman.
The hiring marks a shift in strategy as Clio has previously focused on law firm tech pressures, more recently through case monitoring tool Clio Docket within its AI-powered station Clio Work.
Arredondo said: “The judiciary is fundamentally different from any other part of the legal system, and technology built for courts has to reflect that.
“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.”
Jack Newton, CEO and founder of Clio, said the company has been building an expansive vision for how technology is implanted in the legal system for two decades.
He added: “Courts demand the highest standard, and Pablo understands both the potential of AI and the responsibility that comes with applying it in this environment.”
Arredondo is a prominent figure in legaltech and co-founded legal AI technology company Casetext in 2013, where he was also chief innovation officer.
He became VP of Thomson Reuters’ AI assistant CoCounsel three years ago, following its acquisition of Casetext in a $650m deal.
Arredondo remains a fellow at Stanford University at its centre for legal informatics. Prior to Casetext he also co-established legal informatics firm Occam.
His arrival marks the latest phase of Clio’s expansion. In June it acquired Canadian AI legal data start-up Jurisage as part of its push to expand in the Canadian legaltech market. The agreement will combine the company’s AI-powered legal work platform with Jurisage’s Canadian-based legal data.
In May, the company said it had grown annual recurring revenue to $500m, principally supported by the release of its Intelligent Legal Work Platform last year and the $1bn acquisition of legal intelligence provider vLex.
The company also plans to open its New York office in the early part of next year following its renovation, adding to its other offices in Toronto, Calgary, London, Manchester, Dublin, Sydney, Barcelona and Bogotá.
In other legaltech moves, earlier this month UK firm Bird & Bird hired technology partner Shahin Baghaei from EY, alongside three of his former colleagues, to launch a legal transformation team aimed at handling clients’ routine work more efficiently.
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