How to generate a trust listing report on Clio

Pursuant to ss 18(8) of By-Law 9, each month, for your trust comparison, you must compare: (a) your reconciled trust bank balance and (b) your client trust listing total.

These two amounts must be the same. This is one of the most important trust records and you must complete it by the 25th of each month for all trust funds you held at the previous month’s end. You should correct any trust shortages immediately and correct any bank or posting errors before the next month end.

Clio is one of the best tools on the market for managing your trust account, and generating client trust listing reports. In this article, we'll explain how to generate that type of report.

1) From your Clio dashboard, click on "Reports" on the left hand sidebar.

2) After you do that, you'll see a header near the top of the page that says "Presets", "Reports" and "History". Click "Reports". This feels repetitive, but stay with us.

3) After you do step 2 above, you'll see a bunch of different types of reports that you can generate. Scroll down the list until you see "Trust listing". Click that option.

4) On the page that appears, before clicking "Generate Report", set the following options:

• All clients;

• All practice areas;

• Check "Include balances not associated with a client";

• Uncheck "Show clients with zero balance";

• Set the date range to "Custom"

• Set the "From" date to something before your first ever trust transaction, like 01/01/1900;

• Set the "To" date to the "as at" date. This will usually be the last calendar day of the previous month; and

• Set the output format to "PDF", so that you can upload a PDF to your TrustReq account later.

For example, if your "as at" date was January 31st, 2024, it would look like this: