Most law firms are losing money they already earned.
We find the billable expenses your firm advanced but never billed back to clients.
Filing fees, expert costs, research charges, court reporters, service of process. Your attorneys advance these expenses every week. But if your bookkeeper does not track them against each matter inside your billing software, they quietly become firm losses.
We set up proper expense tracking from day one by working directly inside your practice management system. Every advanced cost is tagged to the right matter and flagged for billing. The result: you recover revenue you were already owed but never collected.
This is not something a general bookkeeper can do. It requires someone who understands how legal billing software classifies costs and how those costs flow into your financials.
Hiring a bookkeeper in-house is more expensive than you think.
Most managing partners have a number in mind around $40,000 to $45,000 a year. That was a reasonable salary five years ago. Today, that is barista pay. A bookkeeper who actually understands legal accounting, trust compliance, and your billing software will cost you $65,000 to $85,000 before benefits, taxes, and training.
One person. One salary. No backstop.
$65,000 to $85,000+ salary
If you can find someone who knows legal accounting. At $45K, you get a generalist who needs months of training on your software.
Add 25 to 30% for benefits and taxes
Health insurance, payroll taxes, PTO, workers comp. That $70K hire is really $90K+ when fully loaded.
You become the trainer and the manager
You are teaching them trust accounting rules, how to navigate Clio, and how your firm bills. That is your billable time disappearing.
No quality control or second set of eyes
When they make a mistake, nobody catches it until your CPA tells you the books are wrong. Then the CPA charges you to fix it.
They leave and you start over
Average tenure for a bookkeeper is 2 to 3 years. Then you are posting the job, interviewing, onboarding, and retraining from scratch.
A trained team. Built-in process. Always covered.
Starts at $950/month
A dedicated CPA and accountant assigned to your firm, already trained on law firm accounting and your specific software platform.
No benefits, no overhead, no HR
You pay a flat monthly fee. No payroll taxes, no insurance, no PTO management. The cost is predictable.
CPA oversight built into the process
Your books are reviewed by a licensed CPA every month. Errors get caught before they compound. Tax season is seamless because the books are already right.
Your team never shrinks
If someone on our side is out, coverage continues. You never lose institutional knowledge or face a gap in your financial operations.
We already know your software
Clio, Smokeball, LeanLaw, MyCase, Filevine. We work inside these platforms every day. No ramp-up period. No hand-holding.
Everything your firm needs. Nothing it doesn't.
We handle the bookkeeping end to end, and we do it in a way that is purpose-built for how law firms operate.
Books closed every month, not once a year in a panic.
We prepare your financial statements, bank reconciliations, and journal entries on a monthly basis. We meet with you monthly to review your firm's financial position. Clean books every month means no catch-up, no surprises, and tax-ready records year-round.
IOLTA compliance with zero tolerance for gray areas.
Client fund segregation, three-way reconciliation, and transparent trust ledger reporting. We manage trust activity with full compliance for IOLTA, IOLA, IOTA, and COLTAF requirements. Every dollar is accounted for. Every disbursement is documented.
Catching errors before they become problems.
We implement proactive systems to surface red flags: uncaptured billable expenses, trust accounting software errors, funds deposited into the wrong account. Your trust records align with actual money movement, clearing out the kind of mistakes that generalist bookkeepers never notice.
Your billing software is the backbone of your books.
A bookkeeper who cannot navigate your practice management system is working blind. They cannot track billable expenses by matter, reconcile trust activity, or produce financials that reflect how your firm actually operates. We work inside your platform from day one.
75% of law firms under $10M revenue run on one of five platforms. These are the systems we work inside every day.
Ready for someone to handle all the money movement?
When your firm outgrows basic bookkeeping and you want the financial operations fully offloaded, our Accounting and Money Movement engagement adds controller-level functions to your team. Same people. Same process. Just more scope.
Accounts payable and vendor payments processed on your behalf
Trust account disbursements initiated on agreed terms
Payroll scheduling and partner compensation management
Real-time cash flow monitoring across all firm accounts
Billable expense evaluation: estimated vs. actually billed
One team that owns the entire financial operation.
Instead of a bookkeeper who does the books, a separate CPA who does the tax return, and you in the middle managing both, our engagement stacks. Bookkeeping flows into money movement. Money movement flows into tax planning. There is one team, one process, and one set of numbers everyone trusts.
Less than an in-house hire. More skilled.
Bookkeeping, trust accounting, and tax prep included.
Our engagements with law firms typically range between:
depending on firm size, practice type, and whether money movement is included. Following our first call, we build a quote specific to your firm.
- ✓Monthly bookkeeping
- ✓Trust account administration
- ✓Tax return preparation
- ✓Compliance oversight
- ✓Dedicated CPA team
- ✓Monthly review meeting
- ✓Billable expense tracking
- ✓Payroll scheduling
"Adding Knight's services to our operations has been tremendously helpful in streamlining our accounting, bookkeeping, and financial functions. The accuracy of his team's work has been outstanding and is a huge improvement over our previous approach. Knight has enabled us to focus more on the legal work we want to be doing and essentially outsourcing what used to be accounting and financial headaches."