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71%of legal clients prefer fixed or flat fees over hourly billing
71% of legal clients prefer fixed or flat fees over hourly billing (2026 report, Clio (Themis Solutions Inc.), Legal Trends Report and Legal Trends for Solo, Small and Mid-Sized Law Firms)
Vendor dataChecked at source, 23 Oct 2026All sizesUSALaw firm marketing · Clients
In plain words
What this number really says
71% of legal clients prefer fixed or flat fees over hourly billing (2026 report).
71%
the latest figure (2026 report)
Vendor data
type of source
Why you can trust it. Clio (Themis Solutions Inc.), Legal Trends Report and Legal Trends for Solo, Small and Mid-Sized Law Firms: vendor data, a company measuring its own customers or panel.
Key facts
- Period 2026 report
- Region USA
- Company size All sizes
- Next data Yearly
Source: Clio (Themis Solutions Inc.), Legal Trends Report and Legal Trends for Solo, Small and Mid-Sized Law Firms, 2026 report
Method and use
How it was measured, and how to use it
How it was measured
- Publisher
- Clio (Themis Solutions Inc.), Legal Trends Report and Legal Trends for Solo, Small and Mid-Sized Law Firms
- Source type
- Vendor data: A company measuring its own customers or panel
- What it measures
- 71% of legal clients prefer fixed or flat fees over hourly billing
- Data period
- 2026 report
- Published by the source
- 4 May 2026
- In the source's words
Seventy-one percent of clients prefer fixed or flat fees, meaning firms that move away from hourly billing aren't just protecting their own margins, they're delivering the pricing experience clients want.
- Checked at source
- 23 Oct 2026: Read on clio.com press release dated 4 May 2026 (Legal Trends for Solo and Small Law Firms). Vendor survey; the release gives no sample size or field dates. Clio's 2024 consumer survey (1,003 US adults) also gave 71% preferring a flat fee for the whole case.
- Reuse
- Copyright Clio; short quotes with attribution. Vendor research from a legal software company that sells AI tools. Cite as Clio and link the report.
- Next expected update
- Yearly (Clio (Themis Solutions Inc.), yearly (full report usually in October; solo/small and mid-sized editions in spring))
- Original page
- www.clio.com: Legal Trends Report and Legal Trends for Solo, Small and Mid-Sized Law Firms
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No changes recorded yet. First checked at the source on 23 Oct 2026.
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Clio (Themis Solutions Inc.). (2026). 71% of legal clients prefer fixed or flat fees over hourly billing. Via digitaltreed, https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/law-firm-marketing/clients-prefer-flat-fees
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"71% of legal clients prefer fixed or flat fees over hourly billing." Clio (Themis Solutions Inc.), Legal Trends Report and Legal Trends for Solo, Small and Mid-Sized Law Firms, 2026 report. digitaltreed, https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/law-firm-marketing/clients-prefer-flat-fees.
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71% of legal clients prefer fixed or flat fees over hourly billing, for 2026 report, according to Clio (Themis Solutions Inc.), Legal Trends Report and Legal Trends for Solo, Small and Mid-Sized Law Firms. We checked it at the source on 23 Oct 2026.
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