Estates Back Office

The platform

One clean platform, two ways to work with us

Estates Back Office runs on Clio and Microsoft 365. You can work with us one of two ways. Either you run your estates practice on a Clio and Microsoft 365 platform, we can install and configure everything for you, and we plug straight into it; or you stay on your existing system, and we use email as the transport to exchange matter correspondence, documents, reports and progress reports, you can then import that into your existing practice management system. The first gives the deepest automation; the second keeps a clean line between our systems and yours.

How we connect

Two ways to work with us

One gives you the deepest integration; the other keeps things simple. Both keep your estate work off any tired, misconfigured system.

Option 1

Plug into the platform we build

Run your estates practice on a Clio and Microsoft 365 setup we configure and install for you. Because it's built to connect, we plug straight into your practice — and on a shared platform we can add deeper linkages and automations that aren't possible across separate systems.

  • A Clio + Microsoft 365 setup, configured for estates
  • We connect directly into your matters and documents
  • The workflow automations to run the practice
  • Deeper linkages because we share the platform
Option 2

Or exchange by email

Prefer to keep your own practice management system? We don't touch it. We move each matter between us by email — organised and ready — for you to import into your PMS. It keeps a clean line between our systems and yours, and means we never plug into an environment that may be out of date or misconfigured.

  • Works with any practice management system
  • Matters exchanged by email, ready to import
  • No access to your systems required
  • We never rely on a legacy or misconfigured setup

Option 1, in detail

What the platform we build gives you

Clio

The estates matter, managed

Clio is the practice management backbone. We work within your Clio environment so every estate matter, task and dollar is tracked where your firm already looks.

  • Estate matter workflows, tasks and deadlines in Clio Manage
  • Court-form and letter templates driven from matter data
  • Estate money tracked on your Clio trust ledger
  • Intake, engagement and e-signature through Clio Grow
  • Documents and notes kept in the client's Clio file
Microsoft 365

Documents, security and automation

Microsoft 365 is where the sensitive documents live and the workflows run. We operate to your tenant's security and data-residency settings.

  • Secure document handling in SharePoint and OneDrive
  • Collaboration and updates through Teams and Outlook
  • Workflow automation with Power Automate
  • Compliance, retention and data residency via Microsoft Purview
  • Identity and access secured with Microsoft Entra

More than the back office

We can build the platform — and simplify your stack

Because we work in Clio and Microsoft 365 every day, we can stand up the platform and the workflow automations your estates practice needs — matter templates, document automation, and task and deadline flows — as a full estates setup or in pieces. And when you're on the platform we've built, further linkages and automations between us become possible.

Outsourcing your estates work to us also removes the need to maintain a stack of software subscriptions of your own. For firms that want to simplify and cut costs, letting us carry the platform for estates work is one fewer system to licence, secure and keep current.

Want us to build your estates platform?

Talk to us about a Clio and Microsoft 365 setup configured for estates — or about simply handing your matters to us by email.

Enquire now