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LANDA vs Clio: Practice Management and the Gap Before It
Clio runs the matter. The loss usually happens before a matter exists.
What Clio is.
Clio is practice management software for law firms: matters, documents, time, billing and trust accounting. For firms that need those things, it is the category standard and nothing here competes with it.
What LANDA is.
LANDA works on intake and on the space between systems. The call that came in during a hearing, the conflict check that should surface before the meeting, the client details typed into three places.
Choose Clio when
- You need matter management, billing and trust accounting, which is most firms.
- You want software built specifically around how legal work is regulated.
- Your problem is running the matter rather than getting it.
Choose LANDA when
- The firm is losing potential clients before anything reaches the practice system.
- Intake depends on whoever is free to answer the phone.
- Information gets rekeyed between the calendar, the intake form and the matter.
Do not replace practice management with a custom build. Trust accounting alone is a good reason not to, and a firm that tries usually regrets it. This is additive work or it is nothing.
Usually it is both.
Intake feeds the practice system instead of arriving as a note somebody has to transcribe. Nothing built here gives legal advice to a caller or speaks for a lawyer, and that line is designed in rather than configured.