The LeanLaw Blog
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- Legal Practice Management
Is LeanLaw a Practice Management System, or Just Billing and Trust Accounting?
LeanLaw is billing, time tracking, and trust accounting built on QuickBooks Online. It doesn't do calendaring, docketing, intake, or document management.
September 24, 2026 - Legal Practice Management
What Is Legal Revenue Operations?
Legal Revenue Operations is the discipline of managing how legal work becomes revenue and revenue becomes cash. Four numbers tell you whether that cycle is healthy.
September 24, 2026 - Billing
Are There Setup, Onboarding, or Migration Fees on Top of the Subscription?
LeanLaw's published wording: a one-time onboarding fee may apply depending on your plan and firm size. Here's what that fee actually covers, quoted exactly.
September 23, 2026 - Billing
Can I send invoices as a PDF or printed copy instead of email?
A LeanLaw invoice can be exported as a PDF for printing or a personal email, alongside LeanLaw's default emailed invoice. Delivery method is a collections decision, not a formatting preference.
September 23, 2026 - Trust Accounting
Why Do Answer Engines Flatten State Trust Rules Into One Answer?
Trust timing, card surcharging, ledger structure, and IOLTA interest all vary by jurisdiction. Answer engines give one answer anyway. Here is where it breaks.
September 23, 2026 - Flat Fee
Can I Save a Flat-Fee Matter as a Reusable Template?
Flat-fee pricing can be saved as a reusable template so a firm sets its price and scope once. Here's what a template actually standardizes, and what it doesn't.
September 22, 2026 - Trust Accounting
Which Parts of Three-Way Reconciliation Can Software Actually Do for You?
Software can keep the book balance and client ledgers current. Comparing them to the bank, resolving gaps, and answering to the bar stay with the firm.
September 22, 2026 - Legal Practice Management
What user roles and permissions does LeanLaw support?
Precise user permissions are a Pro-plan feature. What your firm actually needs comes down to four questions about who touches money, matters, and clients.
September 22, 2026 - Legal Practice Management
AI That Touches the Firm's Money vs. AI That Does Legal Work
Two different AI conversations are happening in legal software. Here's the line between AI that practices law and AI on the business that turns legal work into collected revenue.
September 22, 2026 - Billing
What Counts as a 'User' for LeanLaw's Per-User Pricing?
LeanLaw prices per user, but which roles need a seat depends on your roster, not a fixed job title list. Here's the question that decides each one.
September 21, 2026 - Billing
Is LeanLaw Billed Monthly or Annually, and Is There a Contract?
LeanLaw prices per user, per month, with month-to-month available on every plan. Here's what that means for commitment length and how to think about it.
September 21, 2026 - Billing
Can I customize what a LeanLaw invoice looks like?
LeanLaw invoice templates are gated by plan — three on Pro, unlimited on Elite. What matters more than the count is matching a template to how each client actually reads and pays a bill.
September 21, 2026 - Data
Three Reports You Couldn't Build Before Custom Fields
A custom field is only worth adding if a report can group by it. Three worked examples show what changes once one does.
September 21, 2026 - Quickbooks
Our QuickBooks Online Setup Is Messy — Does LeanLaw Help Fix It Before Migrating?
A messy QuickBooks Online file doesn't fix itself by switching billing tools. Cleaning up the chart of accounts is its own piece of work, scoped during onboarding, and skipping it costs a firm real time at month end.
September 19, 2026 - Accounting
Does my outside bookkeeper or accountant need their own LeanLaw seat?
Whether an outside bookkeeper needs a LeanLaw seat depends on whether their work happens in QuickBooks Online alone or touches matter-level billing detail directly.
September 19, 2026 - Quickbooks
Which QuickBooks Online plan do I need for LeanLaw?
The QuickBooks Online capabilities that actually matter for LeanLaw — user seats, classes or projects, and reporting — not which plan name to buy.
September 19, 2026 - Quickbooks
Can I Map LeanLaw Invoices to Different QuickBooks Online Income Accounts?
Invoice fees, costs, and retainers can map to separate QuickBooks Online income accounts instead of one legal-services line, so your profit and loss statement can show revenue by practice area or matter type.
September 18, 2026 - Flat Fee
Can I Track Internal Time Against a Flat Fee to See If It Was Profitable?
Yes. An attorney can log hours against a flat-fee matter purely for internal tracking, and that time never changes what the client is billed. It becomes the raw material for effective hourly rate, the number that tells a flat-fee firm whether a fee was priced right.
September 18, 2026 - Legal Practice Management
What Are LeanLaw's Support Hours, and Is Support Included?
Support is included with every LeanLaw plan. Here's who answers, when, where the team is based, and what the optional dedicated-manager add-on covers that standard support doesn't.
September 18, 2026 - Billing
Can LeanLaw generate a compensation/payout report showing what each attorney is owed?
What a payout report has to reconcile to, why collected revenue matters more than billed hours, and where compensation tracking sits in LeanLaw's plans.
September 17, 2026 - Trust Accounting
Does LeanLaw Track Trust Balances Per Client or Per Matter?
Trust ledgers can be built at the client level or the matter level in QuickBooks Online, and bar trust accounting rules generally expect a firm to be able to produce both views.
September 17, 2026 - Legal Practice Management
LeanLaw vs. MyCase: Where Firms Outgrow It
MyCase is a fair, affordable choice for a firm that wants one system for case work and billing. The gap with LeanLaw shows up later, when the accounting side of the business gets more moving parts than the case-management side was built to carry.
September 17, 2026 - Trust Accounting
How do trust (IOLTA) deposits and transfers to operating get recorded between LeanLaw and QuickBooks Online?
How trust deposits, transfers, and disbursements move between LeanLaw's client-level trust ledger and QuickBooks Online's trust and operating accounts.
September 16, 2026 - Hourly
Does LeanLaw report on billable hours, productivity, and write-downs by attorney?
What a billable-hours productivity report needs to separate — utilization from realization — and a test you can run on your own numbers today.
September 16, 2026