Does LeanLaw Have an Accounts Receivable Aging Report and Automatic Payment Reminders?

LeanLaw’s accounts receivable aging report shows outstanding invoice balances by client, matter, or attorney, and it can send reminders on invoices that haven’t been paid, so a firm has a live read on collection rate instead of one lump owed-to-us figure.

What an aging report tells you that a single balance can’t

A total accounts-receivable number says how much clients owe you. It says nothing about how urgent that money is. An aging report splits outstanding invoices into buckets by how long they’ve been sitting, recently unpaid versus unpaid for a long stretch, so a firm can see collection rate as a shape rather than a single figure, and act on the oldest, most at-risk balances first instead of averaging everything together, which is most of the work of reading what the aging numbers are telling you. LeanLaw’s version can be viewed by client, by matter, or by attorney, which matters if your firm tracks originating or working attorney receivables separately from the firm total.

Reminders are a cheap lever on billing velocity

Sending a reminder costs the firm almost nothing next to the alternative: letting an invoice age until it needs a phone call or a write-off. LeanLaw can send a reminder tied to the same invoice record the client already received, rather than creating a second, disconnected message for your team to track, and it’s the same payment link a client would use to pay it. What actually moves billing velocity is how promptly your firm decides an invoice has aged long enough to trigger a reminder, and whether that decision happens on a schedule or only when someone notices.

A worked example

Say a firm has two unpaid invoices: one sent last week to a client who has paid on time for years, and one sent months ago to a client who’s gone quiet. A single accounts-receivable total treats those the same, dollars owed. An aging report puts them in different buckets, so the next move is obvious: check in on the quiet client first and leave the reliable one alone for now. The report doesn’t collect the money; it tells the firm which conversation to have first, a decision no total balance, and no automated reminder on its own, can make for you.

What this depends on

• How your firm defines “past due” and how long it waits before treating an invoice as at risk
• Whether receivables are tracked by originating attorney, working attorney, or firm total
• How consistently your team reviews the aging report rather than running it once and moving on
• How reminders fit into your existing collections process, since a reminder replaces a step, not a decision

Related questions

Will past-due amounts show up somewhere I can see them? Yes. An unpaid invoice appears in the aging report from the day it’s sent, sorted into the same buckets as every other outstanding balance, and stays there until it’s paid.

Can I see just my own receivables, separate from the firm total? The report can be viewed by attorney as well as by client or matter, which is what makes it possible to isolate what’s owed on matters you originated or worked, rather than only the firm-wide number.