IP law billing that matches how your practice actually works.
LeanLaw addresses the complexities of IP matters with matter-true billing, budget tracking per action, trust account management, and financial reporting built natively on QuickBooks Online — so attorneys concentrate on client work while operations scale.
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
Trusted by IP and patent law firms across the country
Four pillars that make IP billing work.
IP practices carry unique billing complexity — patent families, prosecution timelines, trademark classes, docketing-driven deadlines. LeanLaw is built to handle every dimension of it.
Clear, consistent invoicing for multi-matter clients.
Patent portfolio clients expect itemized clarity across dozens of open matters. LeanLaw delivers clean, multi-matter invoice summaries so every charge is traceable to the specific action that generated it — no guesswork, no disputes.
Eliminate manual entry and spreadsheet reconciliation.
Stop re-keying entries from docketing into billing and billing into QuickBooks. LeanLaw connects your time capture, invoicing, and accounting in one automated workflow — so billing administrators reclaim hours every billing cycle.
QuickBooks Online integration as single source of truth.
LeanLaw is built natively on QuickBooks Online — the industry-leading accounting platform. Every invoice, payment, and trust draw syncs live to the general ledger, eliminating double entry and reconciliation errors.
Real-time visibility into profitability and budgets.
See how every IP matter performs financially before month-end. Track budgets per action, monitor work-in-progress across patent families, and identify which practice areas are growing your firm — and which are not.
Built for the way IP work actually flows.
Most legal billing software was built for hourly general practice. IP firms manage patent families, prosecution timelines, trademark portfolios, and docketing-driven billing events that standard tools cannot handle. LeanLaw can.
Simplify complex billing with completion-based fixed fees.
Set fee amounts for each IP action — patent filing, office action response, issue fee payment — and trigger billing automatically at completion. No more chasing billing events through docketing spreadsheets.
Streamline multi-matter invoicing via automated summaries.
Clients managing large patent portfolios or trademark registrations get one clean invoice with matter-level detail. LeanLaw aggregates charges across all active matters and generates a single summary invoice automatically.
Unify financial data through QuickBooks-native architecture.
LeanLaw does not export to QuickBooks — it runs inside it. Every financial event is a native QuickBooks transaction, giving your bookkeeper and accountant full fidelity without any data translation layer.
Six capabilities purpose-built for IP practices.
Every LeanLaw feature is built to handle the billing and financial complexity that defines IP law — from patent prosecution to trademark portfolio management.
Bill every action inside a matter independently.
Assign time directly to specific patent actions, trademark classes, or copyright filings — all nested within a single client matter. Stop flattening complex IP work into generic line items.
Track fixed-fee status so you know when to bill.
Set completion-based milestones for each IP action — patent application, office action response, filing confirmation — and bill at the moment of completion, not at arbitrary month-end cutoffs.
Your IP financials live in one authoritative ledger.
Every invoice, payment, and trust draw posts to QuickBooks Online natively — no exports, no reconciliation. Your accountant stays in QuickBooks while you work in LeanLaw.
One clean invoice for clients with dozens of matters.
Automatically aggregate charges across all patent families, trademark portfolios, or copyright registrations into a single, readable client invoice — with the matter-level detail your clients expect.
Compensation and profitability tracking by practitioner.
See origination credit, compensation allocation, and effective hourly rates broken down by attorney and matter type. Know which IP work is profitable before you take the next engagement.
Connect your docketing, practice management, and payment tools.
LeanLaw connects to the tools IP firms already use — docketing software, Clio, MyCase, and Confido Legal for payments — without forcing you to replace your existing stack.
Real results from real law firms.
Attorneys, managing partners, and administrators tell us how LeanLaw changed the way their practices run.
"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."
Shauna Martin
Founding Partner, Grable Martin Fulton PLLC
"We finally know which flat fees are making us money and which ones are killing us. The effective hourly rate report was a game-changer for our pricing strategy."
Karyn Anderson
Total Sum Accounting
"Tracking payments to specific matters was a nightmare before LeanLaw. Now everything syncs to QuickBooks automatically. We see invoices paid 70% faster."
Amanda Coughlan
Billing Coordinator, Zahn Law Group
Every role in your IP firm gets what they need.
From the attorney entering time at the patent office to the managing partner reviewing portfolio profitability — LeanLaw gives every person in the firm the exact data they need, when they need it.
Close the books faster with less manual effort.
- Faster month-end closure through automated billing workflows
- Budget tracking per matter action — not just top-level totals
- Automated cost capture so disbursements are never missed
- Real-time AR aging without waiting on a report to run
Scale your IP practice without billing complexity.
- Real-time financials that match IP legal reality — not just accounting categories
- Scale multi-patent family clients without adding billing headcount
- Compensation reports that reflect actual origination and collection credit
- Portfolio-level profitability visibility before you take on new work
Enter time once, exactly where it belongs.
- Assign time directly to the specific patent action or trademark class
- No re-keying or re-categorizing at invoice time
- Invoice review matches the actual workflow you worked — not a flattened summary
- Mobile time entry from the USPTO, the courtroom, or anywhere else
More than docketing. True IP financial management.
Docketing tools track deadlines. LeanLaw tracks the money — with trust accounting, compensation reporting, and QuickBooks-native financial infrastructure that docketing software simply cannot provide.
Deep trust accounting expertise — not just docketing.
IOLTA-compliant trust accounting built for IP retainers, advance cost deposits, and settlement funds. Every trust draw is tracked, reconciled, and posted to QuickBooks automatically.
Unmatched QuickBooks Online integration — certified partnership.
LeanLaw is the #1-rated legal app in the QuickBooks Online App Store and a certified QuickBooks Online Premium App Partner. No other legal billing software is as deeply integrated.
IP-workflow customization.
Completion-based fixed fees, project-inside-matter billing, and multi-matter invoice summaries are built for how IP matters actually work — not retrofitted from general practice billing logic.
Best-in-class tool stack philosophy.
LeanLaw does not try to replace your practice management or docketing software. It connects to them via open APIs — giving IP firms a best-of-breed stack instead of a single locked-in platform.
The numbers IP firms care about.
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
"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."
Shauna Martin, Founding Partner
Grable Martin Fulton PLLC
Your accountant already uses QuickBooks Online. So does LeanLaw.
LeanLaw is built natively on QuickBooks Online — not bolted on top of it. Every IP invoice, retainer draw, and disbursement is a real QuickBooks transaction the moment it is created. Your bookkeeper stays in QuickBooks. You bill in LeanLaw. Both see the same data, always.
- IP invoices post to QuickBooks Online the moment they are approved
- Patent and trademark retainer draws flow through trust accounting automatically
- Payments sync instantly — no manual reconciliation, no risk of misappropriation
- Your bookkeeper stays in QuickBooks; LeanLaw handles the legal billing layer
- QuickBooks Online Premium App Partner — the deepest integration in the market
