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.
Built for firms of 10 to 50 people billing at London commercial rates. Our managed service starts at 10 seats.
Your firm
Our managed service starts at 10 seats.
Defaults to one licence per 10 seats. Every licence you add carries its own cost — and, on the assumptions you've set, returns more than it costs. Push it up to see what equipping more of your fee earners does to the case.
Recovered time converts into additional billable hours.
We've defaulted to 2. Clio's own published research puts it at up to 5 hours a week for firms using their AI. We'd rather open below their claim than above it — drag the slider to 5 if you want to see the case on Clio's figure rather than ours.
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.
Worth being blunt about why. If the research and drafting hours your fee earners recover were billable to a client, recovering them doesn't add revenue on its own — it removes billings, unless the freed capacity gets filled with other work. Clio's own 2026 research found only 34% of firms have updated their pricing to reflect what AI made faster, and that recovered time converts to revenue where a firm has decided in advance where the hour goes. A firm planning to do neither should set this low, and we'd rather you did.
Does Clio Work pay for itself?
£15,720
clear, per year, once Clio Work covers its own licence cost
Each licence needs 22 minutesof recovered time a week to cover its own cost. You've set 2.0 hours a week. Halve your realisation and it still clears.
Everything in the second test below is measured against this figure, licence cost included. We haven't left anything out to make the number look better.
An estimate, and a deliberately cautious one. Project and hardware spend is lumpy — some years it's nil. If it's the line pushing you into the red, ask us and we'll replace it with your actual figures.
Does it cover your whole IT budget?
Covers 57% 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.
See how that result fits your wider risk picture
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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.
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