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Clio · October 2025

2025 Legal Trends Report

Clio's 2025 Legal Trends Report (October 2025) found that Nearly 3x firms with wide AI adoption are more likely to report revenue growth than non-adopters.

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Reported effect of AI on firm revenuePercent of legal professionals using AI, 2025
Positive impact on revenue
36%
Too early to tell
32%
No impact on revenue
16%
Source: Clio, 2025 Legal Trends Report, 2025, Part 3.

Key findings

  1. 01
    Firms with wide AI adoption are nearly three times more likely to report revenue growth than firms that have not adopted AI.
  2. 02
    77% of firms that grew revenue with AI credited operational improvements such as document generation, workflows and client communication.
  3. 03
    In a 63-person neuroscience study, technology-assisted tasks cut overall cognitive load by 25%.

By the numbers

Nearly 3xfirms with wide AI adoption are more likely to report revenue growth than non-adopters
69%of wide AI adopters say AI has had a positive influence on revenue, versus 36% overall
40%of legal professionals use a legal-specific AI tool, down from 58% in 2024
Share reporting a positive revenue impact from AI, by extent of adoptionPercent of legal professionals, 2025
Wide AI adopters
69%
All respondents
36%
Source: Clio, 2025 Legal Trends Report, 2025, Part 1.

What it means for you Draft

For executives at $10–100M companies

The revenue link is a correlation, and firms that adopt AI widely may simply be better run. Still, the gains came from ordinary operational work, which suggests firms like ours should look first at intake, documents and client communication rather than exotic use cases.

Limitations

Medium trust.Large platform dataset, but vendor-published (Clio sells legal software with AI); correlational findings; survey sample size not stated in release.

About the publisher: Sells legal practice software with AI features.

The headline figure measures the “Pays off” stage of adoption (measurable profit impact).Why adoption numbers disagree

Cite the original

Clio. "2025 Legal Trends Report." October 16, 2025. https://www.clio.com/resources/legal-trends/read-online/

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