Accounting for Attorneys

If you're an attorney running your practice on QuickBooks and wondering whether it's time to add legal-specific billing software, this one's for you. As part of our ongoing series on legal tech, we're talking about LeanLaw, one of our favorite tools for law firms and one we recommend often to clients who are ready to level up their systems.

Why QuickBooks Alone Isn't Enough

We hear this a lot from attorneys: "Why do I need separate billing software? QuickBooks already does invoicing."

It's true that QuickBooks can handle billable expenses and invoicing on its own. But without a legal-specific layer on top of it, tracking client costs becomes a surprisingly manual process. To bill back a client expense properly, you often need to set up a liability account, create products and services, and then build a journal entry just to move the cost where it needs to go. It works, but it's clunky, and every extra manual step is another opportunity for something to get missed or entered incorrec...