Clio Releases Vincent Skills

Vincent Skills gives law firms and corporate legal departments a way to define how Vincent performs legal tasks, and apply those standards consistently across matters, attorneys, and time, without re-prompting each session.

Clio, the global leader in legal AI, today announced the launch of Vincent Skills, a new capability that allows law firms and corporate legal departments to define how Vincent approaches specific legal tasks and apply those standards consistently across attorneys and matters.

With Vincent Skills, legal teams can define how Vincent approaches specific tasks by authoring a Skill in plain language. Once published, Vincent applies it automatically whenever the relevant task context arises. A Skill captures the things that make a firm’s work distinctly theirs: the research approach it takes in a specific jurisdiction, the drafting standards it holds for a particular contract type, and the conventions it brings to document review. 

The know-how Vincent draws on as it sets and completes tasks comes directly from a firm’s own knowledge and standards. The shift is fundamental: Vincent is a thinking-and-doing partner you can hand work to, not just a tool to get your work done.

“Reusable prompts are quickly becoming table stakes. The harder problem is turning a firm’s standards into governed AI capabilities that lawyers can actually use in legal work.” said Dan Hoadley, Senior Director, Product Management at Clio. “Vincent Skills gives firms a way to capture how they want work done, control how those capabilities are deployed, and apply that expertise consistently across the organization.”

Predefined skills covering research, drafting, summarization, matter understanding, and document review are available out of the box. Attorneys and administrators with the appropriate permissions can author firm-defined Skills, customize existing Skills, or create a new Skill from a successful Vincent interaction.

Vincent Skills ships with the governance controls firms require. Through a tiered permissions model, administrators decide which Skills are available to which attorneys, builders author and refine them, and no Skill reaches the broader practice without Administrator sign-off. Skills can be tested and previewed before deployment, giving knowledge management and innovation teams confidence before any capability goes firm-wide. Alongside Vincent Skills, Clio is also launching a personal preference layer that gives each attorney a persistent style, allowing them to define their preferred tone, format, and output conventions once, and have Vincent apply them automatically from that point forward.

“For most firms, translating how their lawyers approach legal work into something AI can apply consistently has meant a significant implementation effort,” Hoadley continued. “Vincent Skills gives firms a structured way to preserve that expertise and make it available to every lawyer on the team, without losing the human checkpoints that high-stakes legal work requires.”

Unlocking deeper awareness through Memory

Clio also launched Memory in Vincent, a new capability that ensures all legal work is informed by what has been done before.

With Memory, Vincent now remembers every interaction. It surfaces key information such as how a task was done, the parties involved, and drafting decisions, even if that information was not specifically encoded into a skill. Vincent also flags conflicts with what it has remembered versus new activity in a matter, such as discrepancy between a date in a document and what was said in a communication, to ensure it has the most up-to-date information stored. It never trains on matter data, but surfaces key information while respecting data retention windows. 

Together, these updates reinforce Clio’s commitment to building the ultimate legal AI workspace, one that’s trusted, secure, and evolving to meet the needs of legal professionals around the world. Skills codify the way legal work should be delivered. Memory ensures that all past legal work carries forward. 

To learn more, visit clio.com/enterprise/vincent.