The Clio Cloud Conference, held in Chicago earlier this week, is not the standard legal tech conference. The high energy, densely packed two-day schedule would be more at home in a Silicon Valley setting than alongside venerable legal conferences the ABA Annual Meeting or NALP. It’s a product announcement, packaged with insightful panels, valuable training, and a steady stream of free food and parties.
How great is this conference? I chatted with one attendee who no longer even works in the legal industry who told me he drove up from Mississippi to attend. “It’s a great party.” Indeed.
But it’s the product rollout aspect that I talked over with Clio COO and co-founder Rian Gauvreau. In this short interview, we discuss Clio’s new offerings — especially its new research product to help lawyers fully grasp the state of the legal market — and Rian’s path to becoming a legal tech guru.
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Joe Patrice is an editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news.