Best Conflict Check Software for Small Law Firms and Solo Attorneys

If you already run your billing and matters in Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther or CosmoLex, start with the conflict search inside that system, and check which plan it sits on. MyCase, for example, lists Conflict Check Tracking on its Advanced plan at $130 per user a month billed yearly. If your matters live in several places, or you want the conflict search tied to intake, contract review and drafting, Jural includes conflict checking with fuzzy matching and attorney sign-off on every plan from $24 per user a month billed yearly. Dedicated systems like Intapp Conflicts make sense from roughly fifty lawyers up, not for a five-lawyer office.

A search box that finds exact names in your contact list is not a conflict check. The North Carolina Bar's practice management center has warned for years that small-firm checks often rest on memory and paper forms, and a 2018 ABA survey it cites found that 59 percent of solos had no conflict checking software at all. When you compare products, look for these six things.

• Coverage. The search should run against current and former clients, adverse parties, opposing counsel, related persons and entities, and prospective clients you declined. Many systems only search contacts tied to open matters.
• Fuzzy matching. "Katherine O'Neil" has to find "Kathy ONeill", and "Smith Holdings LLC" has to find "Smith Holding Co." Ask the vendor how it handles nicknames, maiden names, punctuation and corporate suffixes.
• Import. Your history is the point. You need to bring in years of names from a spreadsheet or an old system with their matter numbers and roles, or the first search is against an empty database.
• A report an attorney signs. The result should group hits by name, show the role and the matter, and let the responsible attorney mark each hit and clear, waive or decline with a timestamp.
• A trigger on new parties. A conflict that appears when a third-party defendant is added in month six is just as real. Good software searches again when a name is added later.
• Price at your size. Check which plan the feature sits on. Conflict checking is sometimes reserved for the top tier.

Prices are what vendors published on their own pricing pages when we checked in October 2026. Where a page did not mention conflict checking or a price, we say so instead of guessing. Confirm current plans before you buy.

Practice management suites win when you want billing, trust accounting and conflicts in one login, and that is a fine reason to buy one. Their conflict search is only as good as the contacts entered into them, though, and it rarely reads names out of documents. Jural is a better fit when you want the search to start at legal intake software, cover names found in uploaded pleadings and contracts, and sit next to the AI review and drafting the attorney uses on the same matter.

For a five-lawyer firm, published list prices put conflict checking at very different levels. MyCase Advanced, the plan that lists Conflict Check Tracking, comes to $130 x 5 x 12 = $7,800 a year, which also buys billing, trust accounting and client portal features. Jural's Firm plan at $49 per user a month billed yearly comes to $2,940 a year for five seats and includes conflicts, intake, contract review, drafting, cited research and deadlines, but not trust accounting. Many small firms run both: practice management for the money, Jural for the legal work and the conflict register. Every Jural plan and limit is on AI legal assistant pricing.

The cost that matters more is the one you avoid. A missed conflict can mean disqualification from a matter, a fee you have to give back and a malpractice claim, and malpractice insurance applications commonly ask how your firm checks conflicts.

Do not judge a conflict system on the vendor's demo data. Spend one hour on this test with any trial.

1. 1 Export a spreadsheet of 200 to 500 real names from your current records, with matter numbers and roles, and import it. Note how long the column mapping takes.
2. 2 Search ten names you know should hit, written differently: a nickname, a maiden name, a missing apostrophe, "Inc." instead of "LLC", a typo.
3. 3 Search five names that should not hit and count the false alarms.
4. 4 Add a new party to an open matter and see whether the system searches again on its own.
5. 5 Have an attorney clear one hit and request a waiver on another, then check that both decisions show with a name and a time.

A tool that misses two of your ten variants is not going to protect you. You can run the same test on Jural with a CSV import on any plan, and the law firm conflict check software page shows the report layout and sign-off steps.

For a small firm, the best conflict check software is the one that searches clients, adverse parties and related entities with fuzzy matching, imports your history and records attorney sign-off, at a price that fits your size. Practice management suites like MyCase and Clio include it, and Jural includes it on every plan from $24 per user a month.

Yes. Clio Manage can search your contacts and matters for a name before you open a new matter, and the results show where that name appears. How deep the search goes and which tier includes it changes over time, so confirm on Clio's current plan page and test it with name variants during the trial.

For small firms it usually comes inside a broader plan, from about $24 to $130 per user a month at published list prices. Jural includes it from $24 a month billed yearly, and MyCase lists it on its $130 Advanced plan. Dedicated systems such as Intapp Conflicts are quoted individually and aimed at larger firms.

Yes, once the practice has more files than you can reliably remember. A solo attorney is bound by the same conflict rules as a large firm, and a 2018 ABA survey found most solos had no software for it. A one-seat plan that searches your past clients and adverse parties in seconds costs far less than one disqualification.

You can, but a spreadsheet only finds exact text, does not know that a company changed its name, and leaves no record of who cleared the match. That is why carriers and bar practice advisors push firms toward a system with fuzzy matching and a signed report. Our conflict checks in law firms guide lays out the procedure behind it.