Outsourced Accounting for Lawyers and Law Firms

Owning a law firm demands a significant amount of your time. You undoubtedly have more pressing matters than organizing your financial statements or monitoring your books. When you partner with Lescault & Walderman, enjoy the luxury of accruing more billable hours and scaling your law firm and less time worrying about your financial data. Our law firm accounting services are designed to automate your bookkeeping capabilities, manage your IOLTA accounting, and provide analytical insight to reduce overhead and increase profits.

Law Firm Bookkeeping Services

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Offload your firm’s day-to-day legal bookkeeping needs so you can focus on what really matters.

Ensure Trust/IOLTA Compliance

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Monitor and manage Trust/IOLTA accounts and client trust liabilities to meet strict state bar regulations.

Boost Productivity with KPIs

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Leverage key metrics to track individual attorney performance & assess partner compensation (e.g. managing vs. originating partner).

Stop wasting time and money with inefficient systems

  • Is your current legal bookkeeping system efficiently tracking expenses and managing your hourly billing?
  • Do you meet Trust/IOLTA accounts compliance standards and fiduciary responsibility?
  • Would you benefit from part-time controller or CFO services that help you analyze and identify benchmarks to monitor associate performance, partner compensation, and client profitability?

When you utilize manual processes and disconnected software, you risk compliance issues, missed billing opportunities, lost profit, and waste your valuable time.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Lescault and Walderman provide bespoke outsourced accounting services for law firms. Click the button below to schedule a call with an accountant.

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We’ve Helped Other Law Firms Optimize Efficiency

At Lescault and Walderman, we understand accounting for law firms and the importance of accurately billing time and leveraging financial data to make operational decisions. And we know what it’s like to face strict regulatory standards, and carry the fiduciary responsibility when managing Trust/IOLTA accounts. Our law firm accounting services are designed to automate all of your internal processes- ultimately saving you time and money.

We’ve partnered with some of the industry’s top time and billing, expense, and case management solutions partners. We want to help you achieve maximum billing efficiency and increase your overall profitability with the best law firm accounting software.

When it comes to Trust/IOLTA accounting, we adhere to a careful process that eliminates errors and establishes strict procedures for handling client retainers and subsequent disbursements. This helps you to mitigate the risk of commingling.

Time is the most precious asset a lawyer possesses, and we’re here to ensure you have the tools to maximize your law firm accounting efficiency. And the security in your ability to satisfy Trust/IOLTA compliance, along with the financial reporting to make informed decisions. You need an accounting partner with industry expertise and applied knowledge, and at Lescault and Walderman, your satisfaction is our benchmark for success.

Accounting for Attorneys with LWI

You don’t have to waste time on administrative bookkeeping tasks that detract from critical time on cases and matters. Using our law firm bookkeeping solutions. Instead, you can start focusing on what matters most, practicing law and billing hours. Our law firm accounting services can help.
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Case Management

User-friendly practice management software that includes time and expense, invoicing, document management, internal communication and more.

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Maximize Billable Time & Cash Flow

Quickly and easily capture time, create invoices and streamline accounts receivable.

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Insightful Reporting

Clear financial data reporting and analysis provides confidence in operational decision, management, transparency, and partner trust.

Our law firm outgrew our PT employee. We needed a fast, responsive bookkeeper. When it comes to our record-keeping, the handling of our Trust account was and continues to be most important. Now that we work with Lescault and Walderman, they are responsive to our needs.

We found Lescault & Walderman while setting up our new law firm. As lawyers, we didn’t want to focus on the day-to-day of our firm’s accounting. Lescault & Walderman is the backbone of our accounting team. They check-in with us weekly or more, and they maintain and upgrade our financial systems as our firm continues to grow. They always give us good folks to work with; we enjoy working with them.

What's Next? Here's How To Get Started:

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1. Schedule a No-Obligation Call

Your time is valuable, and we don’t want to waste it. Let’s schedule a discovery meeting so we can discuss your needs and confirm there’s a fit.

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2. Receive Your Accounting Review

We'll review your accounting documents, then provide you with a customized report that includes our findings and our recommendations for moving forward.

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3. Attend Review Meeting

We'll host up to a 2 hour meeting to review our findings and recommendations, answer any further questions and outline how we'll work together.

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4. Review Your Proposal

Working from our review, we’ll provide clear and actionable recommendations for improvement related to your particular processes, software, and systems.

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5. Engage Us For Your Needs

If you approve of our recommendations, you’ll sign an engagement letter and we’ll start work!

How can we help? Send us a message!

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Frequently Asked Questions

Law firms find outsourcing to be a cost effective accounting solution that provides a quick win when needing to cut costs, gain access to expertise, focus on core competencies and mitigate risk.

To learn more about accounting for law firms and why businesses outsource their accounting to Lescault and Walderman, click here.

To learn the 6 benefits of outsourcing your law firm’s payroll, click here.

When a firm outsources its accounting department it removes the need to employ, manage and maintain an accounting workforce which is expensive when considering salaries, benefits, training and the need for a dedicated office space with the necessary equipment and software.

Do you want to learn 10 tips for law firm success by tracking revenue and expenses, click here.

To learn more about law firm accounting and 10 Reasons Accurate Financials Are Important click here.

An outsourced accounting provider that services law firms will ensure they employ accountants who have the necessary skill set to service their industry.

The law firm accountants will specialize in;

  • Payroll processing
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Financial analysis and budgeting
  • Financial reporting
  • Managing IOLTA/ Trust accounts
  • Tax planning 
  • Accounting software solutions
  • Bookkeeping automation
  • Case management software
  • Tracking billable hours

When seeking an accounting firm for your attorney’s office you need to consider all the accounting services they provide for law firms before making your decision to ensure they cover current and future needs of the business.

To learn more about managing IOLTA/Trust Accounts for law firms click here.

To learn more about best practices for compliance in law firm accounting click here.

Legal work is at the heart of any law firm and the firm’s success and the opportunities for growth stem from serving clients and managing cases. When the accounting department is outsourced to an expert third party provider it allows lawyers to free up their time spent on managing the financials so they can focus on their core competencies and drive revenue through billable hours. 

Remember it is all about finding the right law firm bookkeeping service that meets the needs of your business, now and in the future.

To learn more about tracking KPIs and billable hours in a law firm, click here.

To read our guide on lawyer time tracking and understanding law firm revenue, click here.

When employing an outsourcing provider a firm can hand over the risk associated with:

  • Accounting and Fraud prevention
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Data security

It is important to note that the law firm must exercise due diligence when selecting an outsourcing partner. This means the law firm owners must conduct regular audits and maintain oversight to ensure the chosen provider maintains the highest standards of service and security delivery at all times.

Are you looking for more information on the role of technology in a modern day law firm, read our article here.

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