Case Study: Bend Law Group, PC achieves faster, compliant client payments and streamlined billing with Clio

Bend Law Weighs the Cost of Accepting Payment by Credit Card

Bend Law Group PC is a five‑person San Francisco firm founded by Doug Bend that advises entrepreneurs on business and IP matters. Doug weighed whether to offer credit‑card payments: checks were slow, often required chasing, and his firm faced strict California trust‑account rules that made common processors like PayPal or Square unsuitable. He also struggled with time-consuming manual timekeeping and invoicing.

The firm adopted Clio with Clio Payments (powered by LawPay) to handle timekeeping, invoicing, and compliant online payments. Trust deposits post directly to retainer accounts, processing fees are reconciled to the operating account, and invoices sync with bookkeeping—resulting in faster client payments, reduced collection time, regulatory compliance, lower processing costs for their volume, and clearer monthly financial reporting.

Bend Law Group, PC

Doug Bend

Bend Law Group, PC