CARET Legal, the product formerly called Zola Suite, includes native accounting with a three-way trust reconciliation report and quotes its plans on request. LawAOS publishes per-seat prices and adds e-signatures, AML/KYC and payroll to the same record.
Both products keep a general ledger and three-way trust reconciliation inside the system. CARET Legal's pricing page asks you to request pricing and mentions one-time implementation fees; e-signature comes through RMail and rules-based deadlines through LawToolBox. LawAOS publishes $29-$119/user/month and signs documents natively.
- Choose LawAOS when
- You want published prices, native e-signatures, AML/KYC screening and payroll in the same workspace as matters and trust.
- Choose CARET Legal when
- You want email and calendaring native to the practice system, rules-based court deadlines through LawToolBox, or phone support with onboarding and data migration included.
CARET Legal's integration page lists RMail for e-signatures. In LawAOS, signing and client access are part of the matter.
Every panel below is rendered from the product’s own components with fictional records for Okafor & Byrne LLP.
Signatures and the portal are built in
Signers sign in order or in parallel, the certificate of completion is appended to the executed PDF, and the signed copy is saved back to the matter.
Client money reconciles three ways
Each client has a ledger. The database refuses a drawdown larger than the client's cleared balance, and a filed three-way reconciliation compares the statement, the book and the sum of client ledgers.
Every LawAOS cell names a shipped module. Every CARET Legal cell comes from CARET Legal's own pages, read in September 2026; a row those pages do not mention says "not confirmed".
| LawAOSShipped modules | CARET LegalVendor's own pages, September 2026 | |
|---|---|---|
| Practice management | ||
| Matter management | All plans | |
| One workspace per matter | Overview, files, conversations, workstreams, invoices and proposals on one record | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Workstreams inside a matter and across the firm | Inside a matter, or on their own across the firm | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Boards, tasks, child tasks and saved views | Board and list views, child tasks, owners and saved views | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Documents with versions | Upload, create, edit, version and share from the matter | |
| Matter and client conversations | Internal and client threads stay on the record | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Docket, deadlines and calendar | Court dates, filings and firm deadlines on one calendar | Via integration |
| Time tracking and billing | All plans | |
| Proposals with priced fee items | Draft, send, accept and convert | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Money and firm operations | ||
| Expenses, journals, budgets and reports | Expenses, journals, budgets and reports | |
| Trust-account reconciliation | Three-way: statement, book and client ledgers. No bank feed yet. | |
| People, roles and leave | Members, roles, departments and leave requests | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Payroll and payslips | Pay components, payroll records and payslips | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Documents and clients | ||
| Native e-signatures | All plans | Via integration |
| Client portal | All plans. Branded with the one-time white-label add-on on any plan; custom domain from Firm or with that add-on. | |
| Risk and compliance | ||
| Conflicts checking | All plans | |
| AML and KYC screening | All plans | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Ethical walls | All plans; applied by an authorized administrator | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Knowledge and AI | ||
| Knowledge base and CLE tracking | All plans | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Built-in AI assistant | Agents file tasks, documents and calendar events in the matter | Higher plans |
| AI on every paid plan | Fair-use and rate controls apply | Higher plans |
| Pricing | ||
| Published per-seat pricing | $29-$119/user/monthEnterprise quoted | Contact sales |
- Included: shipped in the product
- Offered in some form: depends on the plan, a separate product or an integration
- Not confirmed: not found in public documentation at the snapshot date
- Not offered: a well-known absence
Read on CARET Legal's own site in September 2026. Vendor plans change; check the sources below before you buy. If a cell is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
- CARET Legal: pricing (caretlegal.com/pricing) (read September 2026)
- CARET Legal: all legal features (caretlegal.com/all-legal-features) (read September 2026)
- CARET Legal: integrations (caretlegal.com/integrations) (read September 2026)
- CARET Legal: billing and accounting (caretlegal.com/billing-and-payments/billing-and-accounting) (read September 2026)
- CARET Legal: enhanced conflict checks (caretlegal.com/enhanced-conflict-checks) (read September 2026)
- CARET Legal: prospect and contact management (caretlegal.com/prospect-and-contact-management) (read September 2026)
- CARET Legal: billing and payments (caretlegal.com/billing-and-payments) (read September 2026)
- CARET Legal: about caret legal (caretlegal.com/about-caret-legal) (read September 2026)
- CARET Legal: zola suite is now caret legal (caretlegal.com/blog/zola-suite-is-now-caret-legal) (read September 2026)
- LawAOS
Prices you can read before a call
LawAOS publishes $29-$119/user/month and every module is on every plan. CARET Legal's page asks for a pricing request and lists implementation fees.
- LawAOS
Compliance and people in the same system
Conflicts, AML/KYC with OFAC sanctions screening, payroll and leave run in the same workspace as the matter and its trust ledger.
- CARET Legal
Where CARET Legal is ahead
CARET Legal lists native email and calendaring with two-way sync, rules-based deadlines through LawToolBox, and a long company history. LawAOS ships no court rules and its Google Calendar sync is manual.
The questions a managing partner asks before moving a live caseload onto a new system, answered plainly. Anything the list leaves open, our team answers directly.