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Legal Software: LeanLaw Settings Part 1

  As you dive into the software, you will get excited about the powerful one, two punch of LeanLaw and QuickBooks Online Advanced. QuickBooks is such a generalized accounting platform but what makes it the number one software is its integrations and its open ecosystem. Note: these are setti...

Law Firms: Measure your success using key performance indicators KPIs

  One of the ways you can measure the numbers that tell the story of your law firm's success is by using key performance indicators (KPIs). A KPI is a fancy acronym, which sounds daunting, but in reality, it is just any kind of measurement that you are going to benchmark yourself against eit...

Tips to Manage your Law Firm Accounting with the Help of QuickBooks Online

I have yet to meet an attorney that loves accounting. It's a necessary evil for businesses, and unfortunately, somehow, it often ends up as a part of what entrepreneurs end up doing themselves.  Suppose the attorney is bootstrapping their business and is not hiring an external party to help them ...

QuickBooks Online for Attorneys: Attorney Reports

  The following blog post is designed to help attorneys understand the reports they need to create using QuickBooks Online as their accounting software. The first report is a requirement of the American Bar Association and is a must for any law firm with a trust bank account and manages client...

Accounting terminology for law firms

  There is a lot that goes into accounting for law firms. Why is it essential if you are a partner or a solo lawyer in your firm? In this article, we will dive deep into educating the attorney on the importance of tracking finances. Accounting is just basically that. It's much better to track ...

QuickBooks Online for Attorneys: Processing the Transactions

  We are continuing on the series of QuickBooks Online for Attorneys, and after much hard work, we've finally arrived at a place where I think you are ready to get your hands dirty with starting to do some transactional work. By now you should have set up your file perfectly. If you haven't do...

QuickBooks Online for Attorneys: Entering Billable Time and Expenses

Congratulations on your decision to use QuickBooks Online! It is a robust accounting software. You've probably already realized that it is not built just for attorneys or the legal industry. It's software that's customizable to any industry. You need to know the finite steps to customize the prog...

QuickBooks Online for Attorneys: Creating a Client, the Matter, and Receiving the Retainer

  QuickBooks is a powerful tool for keeping your law firm running. This article will look at the basic setup of QuickBooks for law firms for creating a client, matter in the sales section, and also the client ledgers. QuickBooks setup for attorneys is very different than setting up for a typic...

Legal Accounting: Hiring a Legal Bookkeeper

If you could secretly speak to most attorneys, not as an accountant, but as a friend, they would probably tell you that legal accounting keeps them up at night. Sure, they know how to do the law practice work. But when it comes to doing accounting, it's so foreign to them. Now, they understand in...

Attorney Billing Methods – Which Method is the Best?

One of the main things that can set a successful attorney apart from a less successful one is how they charge their clients. They can charge hourly, fixed fee or contingency basis. But they can also use a hybrid form of billing. In this post, we look at the different billing methods and examine t...