tsuro vs Clio: a Clio alternative for UK law firms
Clio is a cloud legal practice management platform used by law firms in many countries, including the UK. If you are looking at a Clio alternative, here is how tsuro runs a matter from first enquiry to final bill, and how we plan a move so your firm keeps working.
Why firms review their options
Firms usually look at other systems because the firm has changed. These are the reasons we hear most, none of them about a particular product.
- New practice areas or new offices mean each team needs its own stages and templates.
- The firm wants estimates, onboarding checks and client updates on one record, typed once.
- Partners want chargeable time captured as the work happens, not reconstructed at month end.
- The firm wants AI to take on drafting and checking, but only under a lawyer's supervision.
- Partners want management information live rather than in a monthly spreadsheet.
tsuro vs Clio: how we look at the same job
This is not a feature table. It is how we built tsuro, so you can set it beside whatever else is on your list. Case management systems track work; tsuro moves it, milestone to milestone, in every practice area.
One record from enquiry to invoice
tsuro brings six modules together: CRM, Estimate Management, Client Hub, Matter Management, Configurable Workflows and the Finance System. The enquiry, estimate, onboarding checks, matter and bill sit on one record. Billing, invoicing and payment tracking are part of every matter, and chargeable time is captured as the work happens. See legal billing software for the detail.
AI that does the work, approved by a lawyer
Most legal AI answers questions. tsuro's AI does the work inside the matter: it drafts letters, reports and contracts from the matter's data and your templates, flags what a lawyer needs to see, and puts the result in front of the right fee earner to approve. Every AI-assisted action is in the audit trail.
Conveyancing services connected to the file
Property teams order searches and digital forms through InfoTrack, pull title and property data from PT Data, work with lenders through LMS and Lender Exchange, and make electronic submissions to HM Land Registry, all from the matter. Our conveyancing case management software page covers the full stack.
Client Hub from the first day
Clients are onboarded in Client Hub: digital identity and AML checks through Yoti, source of funds through Open Banking powered by Yapily, then engagement and e-signing. After that they see each stage of their matter as it completes and message the team in one place.
Your processes, set up by your firm
Configurable Workflows are low-code, so a team leader can adjust stages, tasks and templates without developers or an IT department.
A migration you plan with us
We bring client and matter data across and check it before go-live, then phase the launch with training. Go-live time depends on the size of the firm and its practice mix, and the plan is agreed at the start.
Put tsuro beside your shortlist
Book a demo and we will run a matter end to end in the practice areas your firm works in.
or email hello@tsurolabs.co.uk
Questions to ask any vendor
A neutral list for any UK law firm software you are considering. The answers are easy to compare side by side.
- One record: are the enquiry, estimate, onboarding, matter and bill held together, or passed between systems?
- Time and billing: is chargeable time captured as the work happens, and is billing part of the matter?
- AI approval: who signs off AI output, and where is that recorded for the COLP?
- Onboarding: are identity, AML and source of funds checks done inside the workflow?
- Clients: what will our clients see, and how do they message us?
- Configuration: can we change workflows ourselves, without a development project?
- Moving across: how is our data brought over and checked, and what does the phasing look like?
Switching from Clio to tsuro
A move from Clio is planned in the same four steps we use for every firm, shaped around how your teams work.
- Step 01
Discover
We agree what good looks like and what comes across: client records, matters and their history, documents and templates.
- Step 02
Configure
Each practice area gets its stages, templates and permissions, and your precedents become tsuro templates.
- Step 03
Migrate
Client and matter data, with its documents, is brought across in the format we agree with you and checked before go-live.
- Step 04
Go live
Teams move in phases, with training, and we agree how matters already open are handled.
For the planning in more depth, read our guide to switching case management systems, or see how every switch to tsuro is run.
Clio alternative: questions about switching
What makes tsuro a Clio alternative for UK firms?
tsuro is UK law firm software that runs CRM, estimates, client onboarding, matters, documents and finance as one system, with UK conveyancing services such as HM Land Registry, InfoTrack and LMS inside the matter. A demo on your own matters is the way to judge the fit.
Can we bring our client and matter data across from Clio?
Yes. Existing data can be migrated. We plan it with you, bring client and matter data across and check it before go-live.
Will our fee earners stop work while we switch?
No. The launch is phased, with training for each team, so fee earners keep working throughout. We agree the phasing at the start.
Is tsuro part of or endorsed by Clio?
No. tsuro is a product of Tsuro Labs Limited and has no connection with the owner of Clio.
See tsuro on your own matters
Book a demo and we will walk you through the platform end to end, shaped to your practice areas.
or email hello@tsurolabs.co.uk
Clio is a trademark of its owner. tsuro is not affiliated with or endorsed by its owner.