{"id":141737,"date":"2026-01-14T06:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/14\/on-lawnext-fastcase-founder-ed-walters-on-the-implications-of-clios-acquisition-of-vlex\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:47:17","slug":"on-lawnext-fastcase-founder-ed-walters-on-the-implications-of-clios-acquisition-of-vlex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/14\/on-lawnext-fastcase-founder-ed-walters-on-the-implications-of-clios-acquisition-of-vlex\/","title":{"rendered":"On LawNext: Fastcase Founder Ed Walters On the Implications of Clio\u2019s Acquisition of vLex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lawnext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LawNext-EdWalters-ClioCon2015-1024x576.png?resize=1024%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\">The biggest deal of 2025 \u2013 in fact, the biggest deal ever in legal tech \u2013 was legal tech company Clio\u2019s acquisition of vLex for $1 billion. A global legal research company founded in Spain, vLex had, just two years earlier, merged with the U.S. legal research company Fastcase, and the union of those two [\u2026]<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lawnext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LawNext-EdWalters-ClioCon2015-1024x576.png?resize=1024%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\">The biggest deal of 2025 \u2013 in fact, the biggest deal ever in legal tech \u2013 was legal tech company Clio\u2019s acquisition of vLex for $1 billion. A global legal research company founded in Spain, vLex had, just two years earlier, merged with the U.S. legal research company Fastcase, and the union of those two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest deal of 2025 \u2013 in fact, the biggest deal ever in legal tech \u2013 was legal tech company Clio\u2019s acquisition of vLex for $1 billion. A global legal research company founded in Spain, vLex had, just two years earlier, merged with the U.S. legal research company Fastcase, and the union of those two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawsite"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LawNext-EdWalters-ClioCon2015-1024x576-V4AifQ.png?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}