Lawcus publishes monthly and annual prices, puts its client portal and AI assistant on the Growth plan, caps e-signatures by plan and connects to QuickBooks or Xero for accounting. LawAOS keeps the ledger, portal, signatures and AI on every plan.
Lawcus lists Essential at $39 per user/month billed annually. Its portal, AI assistant and e-signatures start on Growth, and accounting runs through QuickBooks or Xero. LawAOS lists $29-$119/user/month with those modules and its own general ledger on every plan.
- Choose LawAOS when
- You want the general ledger, trust reconciliation, portal, signatures and AI in the plan you start on, without a second accounting product.
- Choose Lawcus when
- You want the lowest entry price, you already run QuickBooks or Xero, or you want a payments product from the same vendor with published ACH rates.
On Lawcus's pricing page the client portal and AI assistant start on Growth. In LawAOS they are part of every plan.
Every panel below is rendered from the product’s own components with fictional records for Okafor & Byrne LLP.
The client portal is on every plan
Share documents, messages, invoices, work reports and matter status per client, with magic-link sign-in.
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 Lawcus cell comes from Lawcus's own pages, read in September 2026; a row those pages do not mention says "not confirmed".
| LawAOSShipped modules | LawcusVendor'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 | |
| 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 | Via integration |
| Trust-account reconciliation | Three-way: statement, book and client ledgers. No bank feed yet. | Trust accountingThree-way reconciliation not claimed |
| 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 | Higher plans |
| 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. | Higher plans |
| 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 | Published, from $39 |
- 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 Lawcus'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.
- Lawcus: pricing (www.lawcus.com/pricing) (read September 2026)
- Lawcus: trust accounting software (lawcus.com/trust-accounting-software) (read September 2026)
- Lawcus: launching conflict search dynamic merge fields more (lawcus.com/product-updates/launching-conflict-search-dynamic-merge-fields-more) (read September 2026)
- Lawcus home page (lawcus.com) (read September 2026)
- Lawcus: lawcus payments (lawcus.com/lawcus-payments) (read September 2026)
- LawAOS
No second accounting product
LawAOS posts invoices, payments, trust and payroll to its own ledger and reports profit and loss, balance sheet and trial balance. Lawcus connects to QuickBooks or Xero from its Growth plan.
- LawAOS
Signature requests are not counted
Lawcus lists monthly e-signature allowances per user by plan. LawAOS does not cap signature requests on any plan.
- Lawcus
Where Lawcus is ahead
Lawcus starts at a lower published price, offers no-code workflow automation, and runs its own payments product with published card and ACH rates. LawAOS takes online payments only through the firm's own Stripe account.
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