Aidan Hawes: Trusted Legal AI and Rethinking Workflows
Aidan Hawes, Director of Sales, EMEA at Clio, speaks with Redmond Lee at Legal Geek Conference 2026 about trusted legal AI, Clio's combined ecosystem and rethinking workflows.
About this episode
๐๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป'๐ ๐๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ณ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ, ๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐๐ป'๐ ๐น๐ฒ๐ด๐ฎ๐น ๐๐. At LegalGeek 2026, Redmond Lee met with Aidan Hawes, Director of Sales, EMEA at Clio. Aidan has been coming to LegalGeek for years, through two acquisitions and three companies, all without leaving the business he started at: Justis, then vLex, and now Clio. A few highlights: ๐ AI needs to be grounded in primary and secondary law. Fifty years of aggregated case law, legislation and commentary lets lawyers click straight through to the original source. โ๏ธ The business of law and the practice of law are coming together. Practice management and Vincent AI now sit in one ecosystem.
Key takeaways
• If a lawyer can't trust and verify an AI answer, it isn't legal AI.
• Legal AI needs to be grounded in primary and secondary law, so lawyers can click straight through to the original source.
• The business of law and the practice of law are coming together, with practice management and Vincent AI now in one ecosystem.
• The real bottleneck isn't the technology. Firms need to be willing to rip up the rule book and rethink the workflow from start to finish.
• Trust is the foundation, which is why Clio is hiring more subject matter experts in legal, accounting and compliance.
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