Complete Back Office Outsourcing for Law Firms
One team runs your entire financial operation.
Bookkeeping. Trust accounting. Bill pay. Payroll. Tax planning. Cash flow reporting. All handled by a single team that already knows your software, your billing style, and your state's compliance rules. You stop managing the back office. You start managing your practice.
Right now, your back office is held together with duct tape and good intentions.
Fragmentation kills efficiency. And nobody is looking at the whole picture.
Your bookkeeper handles the monthly reconciliations. Your office manager runs payroll. A CPA handles tax returns. You handle bill pay. Trust accounting lives everywhere and nowhere. The result: conflicting numbers, missed deductions, missed billable expenses, and a managing partner spending 15 hours a week on financial operations.
You did not go to law school to manage accounts payable. You did not build a practice to process payroll. But right now, that is what your time looks like.
One team owns all of it.
Instead of managing vendors and watching them point fingers, you have one team responsible for the entire financial operation. Same people doing the bookkeeping and the tax return. Same team reconciling trust and operating accounts. Same firm handling payroll, bill pay, and financial reporting.
Complete financial operations
Monthly account reconciliation, bill pay, expense categorization, and vendor management. Every transaction documented. Every account balanced.
IOLTA compliance built in
Three-way reconciliation, client fund segregation, trust ledger maintenance by matter. Trust accounting is core to every engagement, not an add-on.
Payroll, draws, and distributions
Processing payroll, partner draws, distributions, and equity changes. Integrated with tax planning so draws optimize your bottom line.
From fragmentation to integration.
An accounting operations partner that grows with your firm, instead of your firm growing one employee at a time.
One process, one set of numbers everyone trusts.
When the same team does the bookkeeping, the money movement, and the tax return, there is no finger-pointing between vendors. No rework. No conflicting reports. One source of truth.
You get your billable hours back.
Every hour you stop spending on financial operations is an hour you can bill. That is not a soft benefit. For a managing partner billing $400 to $600 an hour, 10 hours a week is $200,000+ in recovered revenue per year.
No more hiring, training, and replacing.
No bookkeeper who quits in 18 months. No controller who has never worked in a law firm. No office manager learning trust accounting on the job. Our team is already trained, already covered, and already inside your software.
Reports you will actually use.
Weekly cash position. Monthly spending allocation. Realization and collection rates by attorney. Partner draw impact modeling. Built around the decisions you are actually making, not generic financial statements.
Costs less than doing it in-house.
A bookkeeper, a controller, and a CPA firm hired separately will cost you $150,000 to $250,000+ per year. Our complete engagement starts well below that and comes with built-in oversight, coverage, and software expertise.
We scale when you do.
Add a partner. Open a second office. Take on a new practice area. We adjust the scope of the engagement without you posting a job, interviewing, and onboarding someone new.
Complete back office. One fee.
Bookkeeping, trust, payroll, tax planning, and financial reporting. All included.
Our engagements with law firms typically range between:
depending on firm size, practice type, and scope. One fee covers your entire back office.
- ✓Monthly bookkeeping
- ✓Trust administration
- ✓Bill pay & AP
- ✓Payroll processing
- ✓Tax planning & prep
- ✓Cash flow forecasting
- ✓Software setup & integration
- ✓Expense tracking & recovery
"The accuracy of Knight's and 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."