Clio

Clio is the undisputed leader in legal practice management software, serving over 150,000 legal professionals worldwide. The platform provides a comprehensive suite of tools designed specifically for the legal industry — case management, time tracking, billing, client intake, document management, and trust accounting — all in a cloud-based system that modernizes how law firms operate.

The case management system organizes every aspect of legal matters: contacts, documents, tasks, time entries, communications, and billing in a centralized, searchable workspace. For attorneys who traditionally manage cases across scattered emails, physical files, and spreadsheets, this consolidation alone represents a transformational productivity improvement.

Time tracking in Clio is optimized for attorneys who bill by the hour. The timer runs in the background as you work, and activities like emails, calls, and document creation can be automatically captured and converted to billable entries. This reduces the revenue leakage that occurs when attorneys forget to log time — a problem that typically costs firms 10-30% of potential billings.

Billing and trust accounting comply with bar association requirements across jurisdictions. Clio handles IOLTA trust account management, ensuring that client funds are tracked separately with full audit trails. Automated billing generates invoices with customizable formats, online payment acceptance through Clio Payments, and accounts receivable tracking.

Clio Grow, the client intake module, captures and qualifies leads from your website, automates follow-up communications, and streamlines the engagement process with electronic signatures on retainer agreements. For firms investing in marketing, this pipeline management ensures new business inquiries are handled promptly and professionally.

Pricing starts at 39 USD per user per month for the EasyStart plan, which covers the basics. The Essentials plan at 69 USD per user per month adds the full feature set. Clio integrates with over 250 tools including Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, QuickBooks, and LawPay.