Built around how your firm makes money.
Flat fee, hourly, contingency — three operating models, each with its own margin risk. LeanLaw is built around yours, so the leak specific to how you bill is visible while you can still act on it.
How does your firm bill?
Select your model to see where it leaks
The market built billing software as a feature checklist — time entry, invoicing, payments — then left every firm to work out what those features do for the way it actually earns. So the flat-fee firm absorbs scope creep it can't see until the matter is underwater. The hourly firm writes off realization it never tracked. The contingency firm closes a case with no idea whether it was worth taking. One toolset, three firms, three margins quietly leaking in three different places.
LeanLaw starts from the operating model. How your firm bills decides where revenue stalls, what "profitable" means, and which number you should be watching — so that's where the software starts too.
Find the model you run.
Each model earns differently, so each one leaks differently. Start with yours.
Model 01
Flat Fee
Fixed price doesn't mean fixed margin. See matter profitability before scope creep compounds.
See flat-fee firmsModel 02
Hourly
Every logged hour should become a collected dollar. See where realization leaks — before month-end.
See hourly firmsModel 03
Contingency
Outcome-based doesn't mean outcome-blind. Track case value and cash exposure in real time.
See contingency firmsMost firms run more than one.
A litigation shop billing hourly that takes the occasional contingency matter. An estate-planning practice on flat fees inside a firm that bills hourly everywhere else. LeanLaw runs every model on one platform, one QuickBooks Online integration, one experience — so a mixed practice never means mixed systems or a second set of books.
LeanLaw is built on QuickBooks Online as the financial source of truth; it's the one dependency the whole platform runs on. If you're already on QuickBooks Online, that's the foundation. If you're not, that's worth a conversation.
One Platform
One QuickBooks Online ledger
See the leak while you can still close it.
Whatever you bill, the number that matters is the one you can still act on. Realization, lockup, days-to-collect, matter profitability — live, by model, across every timekeeper. Not exported to a spreadsheet, not reconstructed at month-end. When a collections month starts slow, you know in week one — not week four.
This is Legal Revenue Operations: the operational clarity to read your firm's financial position by the way it actually earns, and the command to act before a soft month becomes a short quarter.
Firm Dashboard — Live
LiveRealization Rate
87%
↑ 3.2 pts vs last month
Days to Collect
38d
↑ 4d vs target
Matter Profitability
61%
↑ 1.8 pts this week
Lockup
$284k
↑ $22k vs 30d avg
Built for all three. Not one at the expense of the rest.
The market offers single-model tools that go deep and stay blind to everything else, or generalist platforms deep in nothing in particular. LeanLaw is built around every operating model and connected to one QuickBooks Online ledger — so adding a practice area never means adding a system, a second integration, or a reconciliation problem nobody catches until quarter-end.
Single-Model Tool
Goes deep on one model. Stays blind to everything else. Add a practice area, add a system.
LeanLaw
Every model. One platform. One QuickBooks Online ledger. Adding a practice area never means adding a system.
Generalist Platform
Covers everything in principle. Deep in nothing. Reconciliation problems surface at quarter-end.
One QuickBooks Online integration — one source of financial truth, across every model you run, every matter you take, every practice area you add.
Further reading
How different operating models earn — and where each one leaks revenue.
- Article Realization at a Contingency Firm Doesn't Work Like Hourly — Here's What It Measures Read →
- Article Transitioning From Hourly to Flat-Fee Billing: A Guide for Mid-Sized Firms Read →
- Article Fixed Fees vs. Completion-Based Billing: Which Is Right for Your Practice? Read →
- Article Case Open to Cash Collected: The Financial Lifecycle of a Contingency Matter Read →
Frequently asked questions
What billing models does LeanLaw support?
Hourly, flat-fee, and contingency, all on one platform and one QuickBooks Online ledger. Adding a practice area never means adding a system or a second integration.
Can one platform handle hourly and contingency matters together?
Yes. LeanLaw tracks time, revenue, and profitability across all three models, so a mixed-practice firm runs every matter in one connected experience.
Does LeanLaw work for mixed-practice firms?
Yes — that's the point. Whether you bill hourly, flat-fee, contingency, or all three, LeanLaw reads your firm's financial position by the way it actually earns.
Start with how you bill.
Your model is the fastest way into the rest. Pick it above — or bring your mix to a call and we'll map it with you.