Clio is a mature practice-management platform with strong billing, documents, calendars and a large app marketplace. LawAOS puts matters, workstreams, dockets, documents, trust, accounting, payroll, people, compliance and governed AI agents on one record.
Clio is the safer pick if your firm lives on its app marketplace. LawAOS is the stronger pick if you want trust reconciliation, conflicts, AML/KYC, ethical walls, payroll and AI in one system, with no integration to maintain.
- Choose LawAOS when
- You want the matter, its trust ledger, its docket and its invoices on one record, and AI that files real tasks and documents in that record.
- Choose Clio when
- Your firm depends on specific third-party apps in Clio's marketplace, or you need the longest production track record available.
Clio connects products. LawAOS keeps the work and the money on the same record, so nothing is synced, exported or reconciled by hand.
Every panel below is rendered from the product’s own components with fictional records for Okafor & Byrne LLP.
Workstreams live inside the matter, or across the firm
Every workstream is a real board with priorities, owners and child tasks. Run one inside a matter or across the whole firm; the tasks stay linked to the record they belong to.
Client money reconciles three ways
The trust ledger is kept per client and reconciled against the statement balance and the book. The reconciled seal is a record the firm can show, not a spreadsheet tab.
Every LawAOS cell names a shipped module. Every Clio cell is a public product page, read in August 2026.
| LawAOSShipped modules | ClioPublic product pages, August 2026 | |
|---|---|---|
| Practice management | ||
| Matter management | All plans | |
| One workspace per matter | Overview, files, conversations, workstreams, invoices and proposals on one record | Matter dashboard and related recordsCheck the plan and connected products |
| Workstreams inside a matter and across the firm | Inside a matter, or on their own across the firm | Tasks and automated workflowsBoard depth varies by plan |
| Boards, tasks, child tasks and saved views | Board and list views, child tasks, owners and saved views | Tasks and task listsChild-task and saved-view parity not confirmed |
| Documents with versions | Upload, create, edit, version and share from the matter | Document storage and management |
| Matter and client conversations | Internal and client threads stay on the record | Email, text and client-portal messaging |
| Docket, deadlines and calendar | Court dates, filings and firm deadlines on one calendar | Calendar, tasks and court deadlines |
| Time tracking and billing | All plans | |
| Proposals with priced fee items | Draft, send, accept and convert | Not confirmedIntake features may sit in Clio Grow |
| Money and firm operations | ||
| Expenses, journals, budgets and reports | Expenses, journals, budgets and reports | Included in current published plans |
| Trust-account reconciliation | Three-way: statement, book and client ledgers. No bank feed yet. | Varies by plan |
| People, roles and leave | Members, roles, departments and leave requests | Users, roles and permissionsLeave and HR depth not confirmed |
| Payroll and payslips | Pay components, payroll records and payslips | Not confirmedCheck the product or an integration |
| Documents and clients | ||
| Native e-signatures | All plans | Varies by plan |
| 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 | Via integrations |
| Ethical walls | All plans; applied by an authorized administrator | Varies by plan |
| Knowledge and AI | ||
| Knowledge base and CLE tracking | All plans | Not confirmedCheck the current plan |
| Built-in AI assistant | Agents file tasks, documents and calendar events in the matter | Clio Duo, varies by plan |
| AI on every paid plan | Fair-use and rate controls apply | Varies by plan |
| Pricing | ||
| Published per-seat pricing | $29-$119/user/monthEnterprise quoted | PublishedCheck current tiers on Clio's site |
- 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
Snapshot prepared August 2026 from the vendor's public product pages. Cells are not individually sourced, and vendor plans change. Check current plans, documentation and terms before you buy. If a cell is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
- LawAOS
Every matter is a complete workspace
Open a matter and keep working: overview, conversations, contacts, workstreams, documents, deadlines, time, invoices, proposals and client access. The same permissions follow every record.
- LawAOS
AI works inside the record
Agents are included on every paid plan. They research and draft, and they file real tasks, documents and calendar events in the matter. Fair-use and rate controls apply.
- Clio
Where Clio is ahead
Clio has a large third-party app marketplace and a much longer production history. If integrations are your first requirement today, Clio is the safer pick. Our integration surface is still growing.
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.