by Diana Halenz | Sep 8, 2015 | Law Firm Accounting, Law Firm Practice Managment
Google “law firm embezzlement” or a similar term and plenty of recent cases pop up… $961,000 taken by a bookkeeper who had access to the firm’s accounts and the absolute trust of the partners. In this case, the bookkeeper’s personal...
by Diana Halenz | Sep 1, 2015 | Law Firm Accounting, Law Firm Practice Managment
I recently posted some metrics that a law firm can use to measure profitability and productivity. However, all the profits don’t matter if it doesn’t translate to money coming in the door. Ideally, law and other professional services firms collect payment...
by Diana Halenz | Aug 30, 2015 | Law Firm Practice Managment
I’m not a lawyer; I have them as clients. The attorneys that I know are some of the hardest working individuals that I know. If you are an attorney and are reading this, you may be wondering at times why you aren’t living the life you envisioned in law...
by Diana Halenz | Jul 10, 2015 | IOLTA, Law Firm Accounting, Xero
Cloud software is being refined and with its maturity, is paving the way for law offices to perform more efficiently than ever before. Just a few years ago, a sole practitioner needed bricks and mortar, a secretary and/or paralegal, and volumes of books just to get...
by Diana Halenz | Jun 19, 2015 | Xero
I recently decided to focus my practice on Xero. Xero, the accounting system, just in case you didn’t know and didn’t want to ask. Why on earth would I decide to focus my practice on supporting clients with this software that most of the business world hasn’t even...
