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Clio Work for Academics: Clinics & Classrooms
Clinic students using Clio learn how a practice runs now, with AI built into the everyday work. Clio Work and Manage AI turns routine tasks into completed actions — extracting deadlines from court documents into calendar events, drafting client updates, generating invoices, organizing matter, researching cited authority, and drafting work product all in the context of a matter. Students graduate having done the work the way modern lawyers do with an intelligent legal work platform.
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Legal Research Software for Law Libraries & Institutions
Clio is enabling ABA accredited law schools by offering a modern, AI-powered legal intelligence platform for every librarian, faculty, staff, and student. Through Clio’s enterprise offerings of vLex, Vincent, and Docket Alarm, law schools can provide institution-wide access to the same AI-powered research, drafting, and litigation-analytics tools students will encounter in firms, nonprofits, and government agencies after graduation. Students don’t just read about how AI is transforming legal practice; they learn it on the platforms practitioners actually use.
How can I use Clio's Academic Access Program?
Clio's legal education offerings meet law schools where they teach. Review the track that fits your program, or combine both for institution-wide impact.
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Legal Clinics & Law Classrooms
AI-ready from day one.
Free AI tools that engage experiential teaching the way modern practice actually works.
– Clio Work gives students a structured way to practice legal reasoning in a professional system of action: research a question, build an argument with cited authority, and turn it into a first draft, so faculty can teach the competencies and skills on with the an intelligent platform to the same standards and tools students will experience after graduation.
– Clio Manage and Manage AI are the practice management foundation of the experience, handling matter management, time tracking, billing, and client communication while AI completes the routine parts (deadline extraction, client updates, matter organization) with review checkpoints intact, so faculty supervision can focus on judgment and strategy instead of administrative overhead, further reinforcing the modern practice of law in a clinic and classroom.
– Clio Grow AI and Clio Draft extend the education experience through intake and document assembly, letting faculty teach and engage with the full matter lifecycle from first client contact to finished work product, not just the research and drafting stages. -
Law Libraries & Institutional Access
Enterprise grade AI-powered legal work technology for law libraries.
Give your entire student body access to the research tools they’ll use in practice, without the price tag of legacy platforms.
– One enterprise subscription across vLex, Vincent, and Docket Alarm puts a full complement of AI-forward legal technology and docket analytics built on a comprehensive legal research database in every student’s hands, so 1L research courses, upper-level seminars, and journal work can all learn and engage from the same platform.
– Faculty and staff get the same access, so library instruction and course design can build around one consistent tool instead of teaching students to switch between a classroom platform and a practice one.
– Because it’s the platform many students will use as practitioners, the research skills they build in school transfer directly, closing the usual gap between how law school teaches research and how practice actually requires it.
Clio Academy
Tailored, on demand learning to get you up and running with and certified on Clio.
Program Details
What is the Clio Academic Access Program?
The Clio Academic Access Program (also called Clio Academic Partnerships) gives accredited law schools free access to Clio’s legal practice management and AI research software, including Clio Manage, Clio Work, Manage, vLex and Vincent for use in clinics, classrooms, and law libraries.
Is Clio Work available for academic use?
Yes. Clio Work is available to qualifying clinics and classrooms through the Clio Academic Program, giving students hands-on experience with agentic AI in a real practice-management environment.
Is the Clio Academic Program free?
Yes, core access is free for accredited educational institutions. Clio products are provided at no cost to clinics, classrooms, and individual students; enterprise research tools (vLex, Docket Alarm) are available through Clio’s institutional library partnerships.
Who is eligible for Clio's academic access?
ABA accredited law schools can take advantage of Vincent and Docket Alarm.
Faculty, staff, and students in legal clinics, classrooms, and incubators within law schools can take advantage of Clio Manage, Grow, and Work.
Contact Us
If your institution or program has specific questions about the Clio Academic Access Program, please email us at [email protected].