Law firm IT offset calculator
See whether your fee earners can pay for your IT.
Put in your seats, your billing model and your charge-out rate. Nothing is gated and nothing is emailed to you — the numbers below are yours to see before you tell us anything.
Clio Work offset — Little Big Tech
Work out whether your fee earners can pay for your IT.
Put your own numbers in below — nothing is hidden and nothing is emailed to you. If it doesn't stack up on your figures, this will tell you that too.
Your firm
Our managed service starts at 10 seats.
Recovered time converts into additional billable hours.
We've defaulted to 2. Clio's own published material claims far higher on research and drafting — we'd rather start low and let you raise it.
The share of freed time that actually becomes billed, collected work. This is the number the whole case rests on — set it where you honestly believe it lands.
Realisation depends on more than the tool. Clio's 2026 research into US law firms found that recovered time converts to revenue only where firms fill the new capacity and adjust how they price. A firm doing neither should set this low.
£2,940
short, per year, of covering your IT on these assumptions
Covers 87% of your IT investment
Why this is worth doing properly
Because switching legal AI on is the easy part. Doing it so that identity, access control, data governance and audit logging all hold up is where firms come unstuck — and it's where your Technology Resilience Score™ either moves forward or quietly goes backwards.
In our assessments, we typically see firms sitting below 3.0 on access control and data governance, and many already have fee earners putting client-confidential material into general-purpose AI tools with no guardrails at all. Layering legal AI onto that increases your exposure rather than reducing it. Deployed properly, it's one of the fastest routes above 3.5 — which is why we treat this as two wins worth pursuing together: recovered fee-earner capacity on one side, and a measurably stronger resilience position on the other.
Every engagement starts with your free Technology Resilience Score™ assessment. That establishes your baseline, surfaces what's already exposed, and gives us the number we measure this against.
Talk to us about deploying Clio Work
We deploy Clio Work properly — identity, access control and data governance sorted before day one. Tell us where to send more detail and we'll open the conversation on the numbers you've just set.
Little Big Tech is a Clio channel partner. Clio licenses and bills you directly for Clio Work, and LBT may receive a commission for the referral. This calculator submission goes to LBT, not Clio — we'll be in touch to talk through your numbers.
Figures are illustrative and exclude VAT. This calculator is not a quotation and does not constitute financial or legal advice. Microsoft 365 pricing is based on an annual commitment billed monthly and is subject to Microsoft's published changes. Clio Work is a Clio product, licensed and billed by Clio directly to your firm; Little Big Tech is a Clio channel partner and does not resell Clio licences. Offset depends on your firm's charge-out rates, realisation and willingness to change process, and is not guaranteed. Full terms are set out in the written offer.
What happens next
Every engagement starts with your free Technology Resilience Score™ assessment. It establishes your baseline and surfaces what's already exposed — the number the rest of this is measured against, whatever your calculator result above shows.