Clio This Month: Leveled-Up Features and New Partners

Happy May from Clio! This month, we’ve made a few improvements to help you accomplish your daily tasks as efficiently as possible. We’re proud to bring you key updates to the way you view contacts in Clio, and to Clio’s Outlook Add-in for Office 365.

We’ve also got two new app integration partners to tell you about, and a new product updates page that will help you stay up-to-date with new changes to Clio, right as they’re announced.

Update to Clio’s Outlook Add-in for Office 365

Clio’s Outlook Add-in for Office 365 is getting smarter: It’s now easier than ever to work between your most-used email client and Clio. With the add-in, you can save email messages and attachments directly from Outlook to your contacts in Clio—all while tracking your time for faster invoicing. And if you’ve got duplicate contacts in Clio, or if you haven’t created a contact for a given case yet, there’s still a workflow for filing emails quickly and efficiently.

Here’s how it works: When you go to save an email to Clio using the Outlook add-in, and the add-in finds that there are multiple contacts in Clio with the same email address as either the sender or recipient, you’ll have full control to choose the correct contact from a list of matches. You’ll also have the option to search for the correct contact, or create a new contact.

If the add-in finds that there are no contacts in Clio with the same email address as the sender or recipient, you’ll be prompted to search for the right contact or add a new contact to Clio. It’s easy to use, and effectively smarter than before.

Learn more about this update to the Outlook add-in here.

All custom field columns exportable to CSV

With Clio, it’s now even easier to get key information about your law firm, when you need it.

Previously, when exporting different views of your matters list to CSV, you were able to export up to five custom field columns. Now, you can export any and all custom field columns that you add to your view of this table in Clio, whether you’re viewing your matters, contacts, or activities lists.

New Contacts List view

You may notice that your main contacts page in Clio now looks and feels a little different—that it looks a lot more similar to your matters and activities pages, in fact.

With this update, your main contacts page will load faster, and you’ll be able to quickly and easily filter for specific contact information. You’ll also be able to add custom field columns to your view so that you can get the information you need at a glance—and if you need to, you can also easily export all information. Log into Clio to see it for yourself now!

New app integration partners

With over 90 app integration partners, Clio integrates with more leading apps and services than any other practice management software. Here are some of our newest partners:

Allocate Legal

According to the 2017 Legal Trends Report, lawyers only log 2.3 hours of billable time per day on average, or 29% of an eight-hour workday. With a range of non-billable tasks to complete on a day-to-day basis in addition to billable targets, lawyers need all the help they can get to efficiently complete administrative tasks and stay on track.

Enter Allocate Legal, the latest in AI-powered legal timekeeping technology. From tools specific to capturing billable time spent composing emails, drafting documents, attending meetings and much more, Allocate automatically predicts how much time is spent on activities—even providing you with data on how this impacts you on a client and matter level.

Allocate will save your time, and you can simply review and approve—while all this is saved to matters in Clio. You’ll capture more time and spend less time doing it, so you can get back to focusing on billable hours.

LawLytics

The 2017 Legal Trends Report also found that 37% of consumers surveyed used an online search engine to find their lawyer. You need to pay attention to how you appear online, but you may have limited time and funds to spend on a top-notch law firm website.

LawLytics is the leading website system for small law firms that want their online marketing to work without wasting time or money. Unlike marketing agencies, LawLytics adapts as the law firm’s needs evolve, so lawyers never overpay.

And, with the LawLytics-to-Clio integration, there’s no need to redundantly enter new client information that comes in through your website into Clio. The integration saves you time and eliminates the potential for data entry mistakes that can occur when manually transferring information.

Learn more about LawLytics and Clio

That’s it for this month! Not a Clio customer? Don’t miss out on the most powerful and easy-to-use cloud-based practice management platform any longer. Try Clio for free today.

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We published this blog post in May 2018. Last updated: October 24, 2022.

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