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Leveraging LeanLaw's Invoice Insights for End-of-Year Collections - Top 10 LeanLaw Feature of 2023

The LeanLaw Team · · Updated January 17, 2024

Leveraging LeanLaw's Invoice Insights for End-of-Year Collections - Top 10 LeanLaw Feature of 2023
Leveraging LeanLaw's Invoice Insights for End-of-Year Collections - Top 10 LeanLaw Feature of 2023 AccountingBillingLegal Practice Management

As law firms approach the year’s end, firm operators and managing partners begin to compile a summary of all outstanding invoices and client balances. This information is critical for planning effective collection strategies. However, gathering and organizing this data can be a challenge. LeanLaw offers a solution that simplifies this process.

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LeanLaw’s Firm Invoice Details dashboard offers a comprehensive overview of a firm’s invoice statuses and client balances. For a complete picture, operators can sort and filter data by specific date ranges, ideal for examining a full year’s history of invoices and payments.

Focusing on collections, LeanLaw’s dashboard offers a feature that shows outstanding balances by the age of the invoice. This allows for a granular approach, enabling operators to drill down into details for specific invoice dates or to get an overview of how old invoices are. For firms looking to prioritize their collection efforts, the dashboard highlights the top 10 clients with the most significant outstanding balances.

When it comes to presenting this information to partners or other stakeholders, LeanLaw makes it easy. Operators can take screenshots or download data directly from the dashboard into CSV or Excel formats. They can also download images of the dashboard visuals for inclusion in PowerPoint presentations or PDF reports, providing a polished and professional presentation of the firm’s financial standing.

On top of that, users can set customized alerts from this dashboard, such as clients with outstanding balances exceeding $10,000. They can choose the frequency of these alerts and select the recipients, ensuring that the relevant parties, such as responsible attorneys or managing partners, stay informed. This feature empowers firm operators to proactively manage collections and maintain a healthy cash flow.

LeanLaw’s invoice insights and customizable alerting provide law firms with the tools they need to efficiently manage end-of-year collections. With these features, firms can gain better control over their billing cycles and improve their financial strategies, ultimately leading to a more organized and profitable practice. Learn more about how LeanLaw can help you manage your accounts receivable with a 14 day free trial.  

Continue to our next top feature: Streamlining the Payment Process for Law Firm Invoices with LeanLaw

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The LeanLaw Team is the legal-finance content team behind LeanLaw — the billing, trust accounting, and revenue-reporting platform built natively on QuickBooks Online. Drawing on years of work alongside law firms and the accountants who serve them, the team writes about trust accounting, IOLTA compliance, legal billing, and law-firm financial operations. LeanLaw is a QuickBooks Online Premium App Partner.

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1,000+

law firms run on LeanLaw

70%

faster invoice collections

$61K

leaked revenue recovered per attorney each year

20–50×

ROI for a typical 10-attorney firm

Figures reflect aggregate results reported by LeanLaw customers — faster collections, recovered revenue, and ROI. Individual firm results vary.