Partnro answers

Every answer below is aimed at a question people measurably search for, is written from named sources, and links to the page that handles the job itself. None of them is a landing page in disguise.

• Choosing the best law office management software for a firm of two to forty

  How to judge law office management software when every vendor demos the same features: start from the matter, price the problem, move one thing at a time.

• Law firm financial management software, and the four numbers it has to show a partner

  The four numbers law firm financial management software has to show a partner: work in progress, realisation, matter profitability, the client account.

• Law firm pricing software: what it does, and what it cannot do for you

  What law firm pricing software does before the work starts, what it needs from your recorded history, and why the hours still decide if the fee was right.

• Accounting software for legal firms, and the one thing that makes it different

  Accounting software for legal firms differs from ordinary accounting in one way: client money. What that changes, and exactly where it stops mattering.

• Invoicing software for law firms: writing a bill a client can check

  A law firm invoice is read by someone deciding whether to query it. What has to be on it, what should not, and why traceable bills are argued with less.

• Billing systems for law firms: the pipeline from recorded time to money in the bank

  Billing systems for law firms are a pipeline with four leaks: time never recorded, time written off, bills sent late, bills never collected.

• Legal billing software for large firms, and why a small firm should not buy it

  What legal billing software for large firms really solves - e-billing rules, matter budgets, many-office rates - and why a small firm pays for all three.

• Billing software for law firm work when the firm is one to five people

  At one to five fee earners the spreadsheet often still wins. What decides when billing software for law firm work starts paying, in figures not advice.