Is There a Free Trial of LeanLaw, and How Long Does It Last?

Yes. LeanLaw offers a 14-day free trial, and no credit card is required to start it. The window is short enough that what you spend it testing matters more than the fact that you got one at all.

What to actually test in 14 days

The trial is more useful treated as a rehearsal of one real billing cycle than as browsing. Run time through to an invoice, connect it to QuickBooks Online, and see whether the numbers that come back match how your firm already thinks about a matter. If your firm holds client funds, test a trust deposit and see it recorded as the liability it is, not as generic cash. The goal of the 14 days is to find out whether LeanLaw’s version of your existing workflow holds up, not to explore every corner of the product.

Pick one matter you already know well, ideally one with some history, and put it through the full cycle: time entered, invoiced, paid, reconciled against QuickBooks Online. A trial built around a matter your team already understands surfaces mismatches faster than a trial spent poking at whatever’s in front of you.

What to test differs by how you bill

An hourly firm should spend the trial checking whether work in progress and realization reports actually reflect real matters the way the firm expects. A flat-fee firm should test whether a fee gets invoiced the way the firm already structures it, since that’s a different question than whether hourly time rolls up correctly. A firm that runs both should test the handoff between the two on a single matter, since that’s usually where a new system either holds together or doesn’t.

What to ask before you convert

Some questions are worth raising directly rather than guessing at from the trial alone: how much of what you set up carries forward once you convert to a paid plan, and how the trial interacts with a go-live that involves a messier QuickBooks Online file than a trial account. Those answers depend on your specific setup more than they depend on the trial itself.

What this depends on

• Which plan you’d actually convert to, since Core, Pro, Contingency, and Elite cover different capabilities worth testing differently
• Whether you’re testing against a real or a sample QuickBooks Online file, since that changes how much the trial tells you
• Which operating model you bill under, since an hourly, flat-fee, and contingent firm each have a different workflow worth rehearsing
• How much of your evaluation depends on your own team’s data versus a generic walkthrough

The question worth answering in the trial

The 14 days exist to answer a narrower question than whether LeanLaw works in general: does it work on your matters, your chart of accounts, and your billing cycle, specifically?

Related questions

Is there a demo account or a sandbox I can look at before committing to a real trial? The 14-day trial is how you get hands on LeanLaw directly, and it takes no credit card to start. If what you want is someone walking you through your own scenario rather than exploring alone, a demo is the other route — the two answer different questions, and plenty of firms do both.

Wasn’t there a 30-day trial? How does the trial actually work? LeanLaw’s published trial length is 14 days, with no credit card required to start it. You sign up, connect a QuickBooks Online file, and run a real matter through a billing cycle.