JuriOS gives small Canadian firms modern trust accounting, matter management, and billing that actually works — without the complexity of Clio or the age of PCLaw.
— Told to us by a family law practitioner in Mississauga
Canadian small firms are caught between two bad options. Software that's too old and software that's too complex. PCLaw became an enterprise platform quietly, over decades. Clio built for 50-lawyer firms and priced accordingly. Nobody built the right thing for a 2-person firm running real estate closings and family law files every afternoon.
The result: lawyers are spending more time managing their software than practicing law. Bookkeepers run reconciliations by hand. New associates need weeks to get productive. And every Law Society audit season brings genuine anxiety about whether the trust accounting will hold up.
That's not a software problem. That's a market failure. And it's what JuriOS was built to fix.
The accounting is excellent. The everything else is museum-grade. No mobile. No cloud. Painful onboarding for new staff. The company stopped listening to small firms a decade ago.
Clio Manage, Clio Grow, Clio Scheduler — three products duct-taped together. $800/mo and you still need an accountant. A solo practitioner doesn't need enterprise workflow automation.
Built by accountants for accountants. Trust accounting is excellent. Matter management, client experience, UI — afterthoughts bolted on later.
IOLTA and LSO trust accounting have completely different rules. Canadian compliance isn't a feature flag — it requires deep understanding of how the Law Societies actually audit.
Six pillars — each one built to be the best version of that feature that exists in legal SaaS. Not adequate. Not checkbox. Best.
Every client, every file — organized the way Canadian lawyers actually think, not the way software engineers imagine they do.
CoreOne-click timers. Smart docket entry. Professional invoices in under 60 seconds. WIP tracking that tells you where every dollar is at any moment.
CoreThe most important feature in Canadian legal software. Built from the ground up with Law Society rules embedded — not bolted on as a compliance afterthought.
Our edgeA complete picture of every client relationship. Instant conflict checks across your entire contact list. Intake forms that integrate with your actual practice.
CoreLimitation dates that actually alert you. Court filing deadlines with jurisdiction-specific rules. Shared calendar with matter context on every entry.
CoreKnow where your firm stands — at any moment, without running a manual report. AR aging with automated follow-up. Trust liability summary for Law Societies.
CoreA trust accounting error isn't just a software problem — it's a Law Society matter. JuriOS was architected around Canadian trust rules from the first line of code.
Bank statement, general trust ledger, and individual client ledgers reconciled automatically. Any discrepancy flagged before you close the month.
You cannot accidentally disburse more than a client has on deposit. The UI simply won't allow it.
Every receipt, disbursement, and transfer is timestamped, counter-validated, and immutable. Law Society-ready at any moment.
Generate your Law Society report in the correct format — Ontario, BC, or Nova Scotia — and email directly from JuriOS.
The biggest reason firms stay on PCLaw isn't loyalty — it's fear of migration. We've eliminated that fear. Our importer reads your PCLaw backup directly and brings everything across intact.
File → Backup in PCLaw. That's it. No configuration, no data-cleaning beforehand.
~5 minDrag your backup into our portal. We validate it and show you exactly what will transfer before anything touches your new account.
~10 minWe map your clients, matters, time entries, trust balances, and AR. Confirm the import — and you're live. Same day.
~30 minI moved off PCLaw after 14 years. The import took 47 minutes. I was billing by 2pm the same day. I'd been putting off the switch for three years out of fear.
Trust accounting used to be the thing that kept me up before a Law Society audit. JuriOS makes it mechanical. The three-way rec runs itself. I just do the work.
Clio was costing us $680 a month and we used maybe 30% of it. JuriOS is half the price, we use everything, and the AI time capture recovers more than the subscription costs every month.
All plans include full trust accounting, time & billing, matter management, and Law Society reports.
No per-matter fees. No feature gating. No implementation fees.
30-day free trial. Full access. No credit card.
Migration help included on every plan.