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In-house Legal Software for Smart Matter Management
As an in-house lawyer, your work is essential to keep your organisation operating effectively and compliantly. You need to be able to rely on your chosen legal department software solutions. With Clio, you can.
Key benefits:
- Tools for in-house legal teams to simplify and organise all aspects of case management, integrating with existing document management systems to enhance efficiency and collaboration.
- Save valuable time with automated document creation, scheduling, and client communications.
- Real-time updates, secure messaging, and shared calendars for improved team productivity.
- Top-tier data protection and GDPR and SRA compliance for peace of mind.
- Streamline processes with advanced task management systems and automated workflows to reduce manual work and improve productivity.
Stay on top of your internal deadlines and your workplace metrics with in-house legal software that lets you concentrate on doing your best work.
The leading in-house legal case management software
Most widely-used legal software
150,000 legal professionals in 100+ countries trust Clio to help manage their law firms.
Most recommended
100+ law societies and associations approve Clio to their members. Clio is working with the Law Society of England and Wales and is an approved Supplier of the Law Society of Scotland.
In-house Counsel Software That Works with You
Clio’s in-house legal department software transforms how in-house lawyers and legal departments manage legal operations. Simplify your work processes and track your time and progress with Clio’s legal department management software.
Track your tasks—and your time
See all tasks associated with a case, organised by the due date. Quickly identify the next task, and see which tasks are overdue. You can also add time entries directly from a legal task, and see which tasks are missing a time entry.
Task Management
Revise and collaborate on documents better than before
Get the document you need instantly by searching for keywords within its title, metadata, or text contents. Filter and sort documents by customised categories, folders, authors, and dates.
Document Management
Cut costs and operate more efficiently
Add time estimates to tasks to forecast the amount of work needed for a legal matter. Track estimates against actual time worked to predict legal budgets for your organisation better.
Manage internal legal requests effectively
Intake new requests with ease. Provide clear status updates to other departments and teams—while working with them on cases and documents.
Collaborate with outside counsel more effectively
Use Clio’s secure client portal, Clio for Clients, to track the time outside counsel is spending on your legal matters against targets. Send messages and transfer documents through the portal for easy secure collaboration.
Measure your team’s productivity
Demonstrate value to your organisation with progress and productivity reports. Find areas for improvement by tracking your legal department’s activity and productivity across different types of projects.
Stay on top of document management
Share documents or notes with outside counsel easily through a secure portal or with software such as DocuSign. See version history and a comment thread for each document stored in our software.
Get more than just software
Receive award-winning support, industry-leading security, access to Clio integrations, and more—at no extra cost.
In-house legal team software FAQs
What is in house legal software?
In-house legal software solutions such as Clio Manage and Clio Grow are built to act as an assistant for busy lawyers. Clio Manage is perfect for case, task, document management, billing and accounting, calendaring, and time tracking. Clio Grow assists with client onboarding and relationship management.
Is Clio's law software built specifically for in-house legal software?
Although Clio Manage and Clio Grow may not be built specifically for in-house lawyers, lawyers like yourself have much to benefit from using legal practice management software like Clio. This is because, with Clio, you can accomplish more—from one central place.
Not only will you be able to communicate effectively with internal clients from anywhere, but Clio can also help keep your cases and legal documents organised. With Clio, you can cut costs and operate more efficiently, take the guesswork out of business decisions, and deliver the service your internal clients want.
How does in-house counsel software benefit legal teams and organisations overall?
In-house counsel software (also referred to as legal department management software or in-house counsel case management software), makes in-house solicitors and other legal team professionals more efficient, and more accurate and helps them demonstrate internal return on investment.
With in house legal counsel software, in-house lawyers don’t have to worry about data security: it allows them to securely store all critical documents in one single cloud-based portal. These documents can be accessed at any time or any place—which is perfect for global teams looking to collaborate.
Legal department software solutions can also make matter management a breeze. Legal department team managers can monitor their team’s workload, assign tasks, view all upcoming deadlines, and maximise their value to the business.
Managers can also view the team’s productivity, drilling down into who’s spending how long on which task. This will unearth areas for improvement and will provide a benchmark by which to assess employees’ performance (and growth).
Put simply, in-house legal practice management software makes it easier for in-house lawyers to complete their work, prove their worth, and optimise return on investment.
Why do I need in house legal team software?
In-house legal departments might have different areas of focus, but they all want three things: to increase their efficiency, maximise the value they bring to the business, and make the most out of the resources at their disposal.
That’s where Clio can help. In addition to acting as a contract management software for in-house lawyers, it also makes work more collaborative.
In-house legal teams can all work from one single, cloud-based source of truth. They can assign tasks, set up deadlines, and collaborate via a secure portal.
Clio’s in-house legal counsel software also includes time recording, making it easier for them to identify potential time and efficiency savings.
In-House Legal Matter Management Software Reviews
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From how the system operates to the integration to customer service, to cost, it's just a Clio win across the board.
Sana Saddique Collective Law
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I would recommend Clio to anybody, it is an invaluable tool. Take the leap of faith and book a demo with Clio—you won’t regret it.
Kirsty McShannon Azorra Limited
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Clio is very user-friendly and helps us comply with SRA rules and regulations.
Kim Ashfield FidLaw London