ADVANCED CLEAR REVIEW
Performance Management Software for Law Firms
Learn how Advanced Clear Review delivers a modern, flexible review process that supports a high performance culture. Increase fee earner wellbeing and improve job satisfaction and retention with continuous performance management.
Supercharge your firm's performance with improved employee satisfaction
​Advanced Clear Review is an easy-to-use performance management system that helps law firms build a high-performance culture through development conversations, real-time feedback, and agile goals.
Give partners and associates the support and visibility they need to grow and develop fee earners.
“I was already aware of the platform. I knew other organisations, like Virgin Money, who were using it and people spoke highly of it. These were professionals I respected from an HR perspective, and their success with the platform influenced me to consider Clear Review for our firm.”
Martin Glover, HR Director, Morton Fraser, top ten Scottish law firm
Key capabilities
Regular conversations
Track agile goals
Real-time feedback
Talent snapshots
Performance insights
Measure wellbeing & engagement
Surveys & suggestions
Online community and resources
We understand and solve your key issues
We build products which are designed to solve our customers key challenges. Effective performance management helps you remove the barriers to progressive improvement.
- Stressed and burnt-out staff
9 out of 10 lawyers have experienced stress or burnout at work, with more than a quarter suffering daily. And less than 25% feel supported when they are struggling with the pressure!
We all know law firms are busy and fee earners have heavy workloads along with meeting client demands and billing targets but many are no longer willing to just accept this.
- Lack of appreciation
The biggest contributors to lawyers’ stress are the high workload and the work done not being recognised.
If staff are putting in the effort to keep on top of their workloads, but receive no feedback, how do they know if they are doing a good job or if their work is being appreciated?
- Staff retention
45% of law firms have cited retaining talent as their biggest challenge with many firms increasing salaries by up to 50% to try and attract or retain talent.
But are unsustainable pay increases the answer to retaining talent? 20% of employees have said their desire to stay at their firm is linked to feelings of inclusion.
- SRA regulations
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is consulting on proposed changes to its rules that will reinforce its powers to deal with risks to clients and the public when these stem from a poor work culture in law firms.
CAPABILITIES
More than just Performance Management software
Find out more about the powerful features that sit within Advanced Clear Review
How our CloudFinancials can help you
FEATURES & BENEFITS
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Check-ins
Embed a culture of regular meaningful conversations rather than an annual appraisal that suffers from recency bias.
Regular, guided conversations
Support partners and associates with performance, wellbeing and development conversations with our simple coaching conversation prompts.
Benefits
Allow staff to understand their performance, raise any blockers and talk about their wellbeing and development in real-time, rather than just once a year.
Put fee earners in control of their own development by allowing them to set the check-in frequency and agenda.
Conversations are documented in one central place for fee earners, managers and HR to look back on.
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Agile Goals
Set individual, flexible goals that link to your firm's strategy and objectives.
Short-term collaborative goals
Easily set and track both performance and personal development goals individually or collaboratively as a team.
Benefits
Goals are reviewed and set frequently, rather than once a year, meaning they are always relevant and not outdated.
Each goal is linked to one of the firm's objectives, meaning individuals understand how they are contributing to the firms' success.
Both personal development and performance goals can be set, allowing fee earners to prioritise, and track, their on-going progress.
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Real-Time Feedback
Create an engaged, high-performing culture with frequent feedback from anybody in the firm.
Regular positive and constructive feedback
Drive genuine behavioural change with frequent insightful feedback.
Benefits
Rather than waiting until an arbitrary date to get feedback, lawyers get a frequent motivational boost when they receive positive feedback.
Give and request feedback from anybody in the firm, giving a well rounded view on performance.
Managers can see the true impact employees are making, rather than only basing their performance on what they see.
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Engagement
Customised surveys, along with our scientifically backed wellbeing monitor enables you to keep employee wellbeing and mental health in check.
Monitor employee wellbeing and engagement levels
Gain valuable insights from your people and learn how they truly feel.
Benefits
Easily create and analyse custom employee surveys to gather targeted employee feedback.
Our wellbeing tool provides instant advise on how staff could improve, depending on how they are feeling. Gather an overall sentiment score for your firm, or split by organisation units.
Give your lawyers a voice with our anonymous suggestion box. Provide a safe place for them to provide ideas, suggestions or concerns.
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Analytics
Data-driven insights to allow you to objectively measure performance, productivity and engagement.
Data to shape your people experience strategy
Detailed metrics help you understand your employees so you can make informed people management decisions.
Benefits
Easily view data on Clear Review dashboards to analyse trends over time.
Pull Advanced Clear Review user data into other business tools like Tableau and Power BI.
Compare performance across managers by assessing adoption with our leaderboards.
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Accessibility
Ensure Advanced Clear Review becomes part of your culture by customising the system to reflect your firms language.
Configurability and Integrations
Clear Review is so easy to use that your employees will adopt it quickly, even without training. And our seamless integrations reduces the need for IT support.
Benefits
Connect to the identity provider of your choice with Single Sign On, sync your people records with FTPS HRIS data integrations, and never miss a thing through our integration with Microsoft Office 365 (Outlook, Teams and OneDrive).
Easily and simply add the language your organisation needs for example Chinese or French. We can quickly add additional languages on request.
You have the option to change 52 terms in the system, for example changing 'objectives' to 'goals' to reflect your culture, along with changing the colours of the system and adding your logo.
Top rated by our customers
CUSTOMERS
Who succeeds with us
Our software has successfully helped over 400 organisations switch from ineffective annual appraisals to continuous performance management - improving the wellbeing of their employees and revitalising their businesses.
Featured resources for you
LIVE WEBINAR
Transforming Fee Earner Wellbeing and Law Firm Performance
2 November 2022 | 14:00 GMT
Along with Martin Glover, HRD at Morton Fraser, we'll talk about how changing their approach to performance management has driven cultural transformation by now being able to see who is doing well and those that may need support.
VIDEO
Clear Review Demo
7 minutes
Watch our short walk - through video to learn how our performance management system can help you engage employees and improve productivity.
REPORT
Performance Management Report 2022
We’ve conducted a survey of 1,150 people HR directors, managers and employees across the UK and USA to discover key performance management trends in 2022.
RESOURCES
Performance management resources
Why plan and support development with your employees?
A part of performance management that sometimes gets forgotten is development planning. But why is this so important?
04 August 2022 by Hannah Hirst
Making steps towards your self development
With a clear development plan you can see how the steps you are taking now will impact a future you are working towards.
26 July 2022 by Hannah Hirst
Manage burnout and get ahead at work
Instead of working harder, work differently, incorporating some new techniques that are designed to boost productivity, improve engagement and reduce stress.