LeanLaw customized our distribution report, which had turned into this behemoth spreadsheet through the years, and was so broken and scary. We save a ton of time: now, we can see in real time upcoming payments based on collections.
It does save a ton of time and it’s reliable. Now a lawyer can look and see how much pay is coming up in the next week, distribute once a month on collections. A lawyer can look and say, oh, look, I’ve got $20,000 already in there for next month distribution.
LeanLaw was purpose-built for the financial complexities of IP law, featuring completion-based fixed fees that allow you to bill only when an action is truly complete. Track time and budgets for each specific action (like an office action) within the parent matter.
For clients with numerous matters, such as universities or corporate clients, LeanLaw automatically builds a one-page summary rollup of fees and expenses, with per-matter details attached. Review cycles are cut from days to hours by handling edits, write-downs, and approvals directly within the app.
LeanLaw’s QuickBooks-native architecture ensures your accounting system reflects the reality of your legal work. It pushes a clean bookkeeping workflow to QuickBooks Online and reads live balances for AR, trust, and WIP back into LeanLaw, eliminating the need for a duplicate general ledger.
Track profitability and spend down to expenses, time, and fees at the matter and client level.
Use states like "Not Ready," "Ready to Bill," and "Billed" to ensure you only invoice when work is completed.
Trust, AR, and WIP roll up correctly at the matter level, not just the client level, with a deep, two-way sync of balances.
Automatically generate client-friendly summaries for clients with 5 to 500 matters.
Automate your firm's compensation model with flexible tracking for origination and responsible attorney splits. Gain critical insights with reports on fixed-fee profitability, attorney productivity including fixed-fee hours, and WIP/Billed/Collected to see exactly how your firm and its attorneys are performing.
LeanLaw is API-first and Excel-friendly, allowing for easy data extraction and automation to handle the unique needs of your firm.
Reclaim your month-end. Track budgets per office action and bill on completion. LeanLaw provides completion-based fixed fees and cost capture from tools like QuickBooks or Bill.com with matter tagging. The result is faster invoice preparation, clear budget vs. actual reports, and more collectible bills.
Grow the firm without multiplying the billing mess. If your current billing and accounting systems can't keep up with your growth plans, LeanLaw provides a solution. Our QuickBooks-native architecture gives you real-time financials that match legal reality, giving you the confidence to onboard new teams and standardize billing on a platform built to scale.
Stop spending non-billable time decoding scope and budgets for every invoice. LeanLaw allows you to assign your time directly to a specific action's fixed fee at the point of entry, ensuring reports stay clean. The invoice review process mirrors legal reality, letting you add or move fees, edit time, and approve invoices in a workflow that eliminates rework. The result is less time spent on billing administration and more collectible bills, so you can focus on practicing law.
Unlike docketing tools that are not financial systems, LeanLaw is purpose-built to handle the money. We focus on providing matter-true billing, trust accounting, and reporting with QuickBooks-grade accuracy.
Our deep, two-way certified QuickBooks integration ensures your financial data is always accurate and serves as the single source of truth. No more rip-and-replace ERP strategies.
Features like completion-based fixed fees, project-inside-matter billing, and multi-matter summaries are specifically designed to meet the unique billing challenges of IP practices.
We believe in using the best tools for the job. LeanLaw serves as the financial hub that complements your preferred docketing system (like CPI), DMS (like NetDocuments or SharePoint), and other tools.
See invoices paid 70% faster with LeanLaw’s streamlined accounting workflows. Boost collections and increase your cash flow. LeanLaw is the alternative to law practice management software.
