{"slug": "on-lawnext-why-legal-ai-pioneer-pablo-arredondo-is-joining-clio-to-build-for-the", "title": "On LawNext: Why Legal AI Pioneer Pablo Arredondo Is Joining Clio to Build Technology for the Courts", "summary": "Pablo Arredondo, cofounder of Casetext and a pioneer in legal AI, is joining Clio as senior vice president of judiciary to lead the company's expansion into court technology, starting Aug. 31. Arredondo, who helped develop the AI legal assistant CoCounsel before Thomson Reuters acquired Casetext for $650 million in 2023, said courts face a massive influx of data, with about three billion tokens hitting court dockets on a typical Monday. He emphasized the need for 'judiciary grade' technology and stated that AI could 'absolutely not' replace judges.", "body_md": "Pablo Arredondo, the Casetext cofounder who helped build some of the earliest and most influential applications of AI in legal practice, [is joining Clio](https://www.lawnext.com/2026/08/pablo-arredondo-casetext-cofounder-and-legal-ai-pioneer-joins-clio-to-lead-its-expansion-into-the-judiciary.html) as senior vice president, judiciary, where he will lead the company’s strategy for extending its technology into the courts. In this episode of LawNext, recorded just ahead of the announcement, Arredondo tells me why he is turning his attention to the judiciary — and why he believes the challenge starts with the sheer torrent of material flooding into the courts. “On Monday, somewhere on the order of three billion tokens are going to hit court dockets,” he says.\n\nArredondo cofounded Casetext in 2013 and helped develop CARA, the first brief analyzer, and CoCounsel, the product that brought generative AI into everyday legal workflows. After [Thomson Reuters acquired Casetext](https://www.lawnext.com/2023/06/the-rumors-were-true-thomson-reuters-acquires-casetext-for-650m-cash.html) for $650 million in 2023, he joined that company, leaving at the end of last year. In this conversation, he traces how his interest shifted toward the courts — from watching judges organically adopt Casetext’s Parallel Search to a recent project at Cornell’s Legal Information Institute using LLMs to annotate the U.S. Code of Conduct for Judges with centuries of judicial ethics thinking from rabbinic, Islamic and Roman Catholic traditions.\n\nArredondo also explains why courts need “judiciary grade” technology rather than tools built for lawyers, how AI is driving a surge in pro se filings, whether AI could ever replace judges (his short answer: “absolutely not”), and where he plans to start when he officially begins the role Aug. 31. This is Arredondo’s second appearance on LawNext this year, following a [February conversation at his home](https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/lawnext-on-location-the-view-from-tiburon-a-conversation-with-pablo-arredondo-casetext-cofounder.html) in Tiburon, Calif., about his career and what would come next. 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