Clio, a leading provider of cloud-based legal technology, announced its acquisition of Lawyaw, a San Francisco-based company developing innovative digital workflows for legal documents.
As part of the acquisition, Lawyaw’s team, along with Tucker Cottingham, CEO and Co-founder of Lawyaw, will join Clio to continue their work connecting and streamlining information gathering, automated document generation, and e-signatures for legal professionals.
With Clio’s focus on simplifying and automating tedious and critical tasks that take legal professionals away from client-centered legal experiences, the acquisition was a natural next step in the companies’ long-standing partnership.
“We have been so impressed with the Lawyaw team and their dedication and innovation to streamlining the creation of important court forms and legal documents,” said Jack Newton, CEO and Founder of Clio. “Acquiring their business and bringing their team in-house better enables us to support further development against the critical work they are doing for the industry.”
“We’re thrilled to join Clio,” said Tucker Cottingham, Co-founder and now General Manager of Lawyaw. “This accelerates our ability to modernize legal documents and the delivery of legal services.”
Lawyaw and Clio have had a productive working relationship for several years, including a long-standing data integration. Lawyaw was also the first document automation company to offer an app inside of Clio’s app store. Solidifying the relationship aims to enable more rapid innovation and new product offerings to help modernize legal service delivery.
Lawyaw focuses on digitizing entire workflows from information gathering to document assembly, e-signatures, and more in an easy-to-use, cloud-based interface that simplifies document generation for law firms whether they’re in-office or remote.
This announcement comes weeks after Clio’s announcement and acquisition of CalendarRules, which helps law firms manage their court deadlines specific to jurisdictions.
