Quickly onboard new criminal defense clients
Your criminal defense clients need help quickly. Onboard them efficiently from anywhere with Clio Grow.
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Tailor intake forms to different criminal cases
Create your own custom online intake forms for DUIs, property crimes, and other types of criminal cases to collect the relevant information for every matter.
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Know the status of every potential client
See the status of each potential client, and automatically create tasks and reminders to make sure no new criminal case falls through the cracks.
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Onboard new clients from anywhere
Retain and onboard new criminal law clients from anywhere, with easy online intake and e-signatures in Clio Grow. Send bills electronically, and accept online credit card payments for retainers with Clio Payments.
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Seamlessly create documents—and access them from anywhere
Track the details you need for criminal cases with custom fields, and use document automation to quickly create criminal case documents.
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Organize criminal case details
Create criminal law-specific custom fields to keep track of information like charges, courts, or criminal history. Organize fields for different types of matters, such as vehicle-specific sets for DUI cases.
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Automate document preparation
Pull information from custom fields into templates to automatically create documents such as jury instructions.
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File and serve documents without the hassle
File and serve court documents electronically, directly from your case. Court-stamped copies are automatically returned to your case, and you’ll get real-time status updates.
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Easily access criminal case documents from anywhere
Keep evidence, client communications, documents, and more organized to each case in Clio or in a document storage integration partner like Box or Dropbox. Quickly access case information and documents on any device, even your phone.
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Stay on top of crucial criminal case deadlines
Whether a hearing, discovery, or meeting with a client, you’ll be on top of critical deadlines with Clio's criminal law software.
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Know your schedule
Organize your calendar by criminal case, add key deadlines with custom reminders, and more. Connect Clio to your Office 365 Calendar or Google Calendar to keep all your calendars up to date and accurate.
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Keep track of court deadlines
Create calendar events automatically for your criminal cases based on rules and deadlines from hundreds of U.S. courts with Court Rules in Clio.
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Know what needs to get done
Create detailed custom Task Lists for different types of criminal cases, from general criminal matters to DUIs, so your team knows what needs to get done by when to get the best results for your clients.
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Criminal case management software FAQs
What is criminal law software?
Criminal law software is system of record and communication hub for your criminal defense cases. It helps you keep all contact information, evidence, documents, and communications organized, and also streamlines the process of invoicing clients.
What does criminal law software do?
Criminal law software helps keep your cases organized. It automates many of the repetitive tasks of running a criminal law practice, mitigating the risk of error that comes with duplicate data entry, or with manually calculating court deadlines.
It also helps you organize documents, evidence, and other information that comes to you in different formats, so you can keep documents, images, videos, and more organized with each case. With cloud-based criminal law software like Clio, you can access your case information from anywhere.
Does criminal law software help with collections?
Yes. Clio offers a number of options to make payment easier for your clients, and to make follow-up easier for you. This includes the option to accept credit card payments online with Clio Payments, and the option to set up payment plans.
Is Clio secure?
Yes. Clio stays on top of the latest in cybersecurity, conducts regular security tests, and is GDPR compliant. Learn more.
Is Clio's law software built specifically for my criminal law practice?
Although Clio Manage and Clio Grow may not be built specifically for different practice types, regardless of what practice area you’re in, criminal 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 criminal law clients from anywhere, Clio can also help keep your criminal law cases and documents organized. With Clio, you can do more billable work, take the guesswork out of business decisions, and deliver the service your clients want.
With Clio Grow, you can attract and retain new criminal law clients online—even while working remotely. Clio Grow lets you automate your client intake process, schedule consultations and accept payments online, and automate emails and redundant tasks.
Criminal law resources
Read up on how you can use criminal law software to improve your practice.
