75%About 3 in 4of US small law firms use AI to complete legal work, per Clio's 2026 solo and small firm report
75% of US small law firms use AI to complete legal work, per Clio's 2026 solo and small firm report (2026 report, Clio (Themis Solutions Inc.), Legal Trends Report and Legal Trends for Solo, Small and Mid-Sized Law Firms)
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75% of US small law firms use AI to complete legal work, per Clio's 2026 solo and small firm report (2026 report).
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the latest figure (2026 report)
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Why you can trust it. Clio (Themis Solutions Inc.), Legal Trends Report and Legal Trends for Solo, Small and Mid-Sized Law Firms: vendor data, a company measuring its own customers or panel.
Clio (Themis Solutions Inc.), Legal Trends Report and Legal Trends for Solo, Small and Mid-Sized Law Firms
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Vendor data: A company measuring its own customers or panel
What it measures
75% of US small law firms use AI to complete legal work, per Clio's 2026 solo and small firm report
Data period
2026 report
Published by the source
4 May 2026
In the source's words
According to the report, 71% of solo practitioners and 75% of small firms are now using AI to complete legal work.
Checked at source
23 Oct 2026: Read on clio.com press release dated 4 May 2026 (Legal Trends for Solo and Small Law Firms). Vendor survey; the release gives no sample size or field dates.
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No changes recorded yet. First checked at the source on 23 Oct 2026.
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"75% of US small law firms use AI to complete legal work, per Clio's 2026 solo and small firm report." Clio (Themis Solutions Inc.), Legal Trends Report and Legal Trends for Solo, Small and Mid-Sized Law Firms, 2026 report. digitaltreed, https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/law-firm-marketing/small-law-firm-ai-use-2026.
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75% of US small law firms use AI to complete legal work, per Clio's 2026 solo and small firm report, for 2026 report, according to Clio (Themis Solutions Inc.), Legal Trends Report and Legal Trends for Solo, Small and Mid-Sized Law Firms. We checked it at the source on 23 Oct 2026.
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of US solo practitioners use AI to complete legal work, per Clio's 2026 solo and small firm report
Sample: Clio survey of US legal professionals plus anonymised Clio platform data; sample size not stated in the release
