Everything except the practice of law.
Plug in a complete back office — accounting, HR, IT and administration — and keep your hours for clients.
Talk About Your Back OfficeMost firms need back-office help. Most cobble it together.
Opening a new firm, growing an existing one, or tackling a special project — hand the business of law to people who have run it for decades, and keep your hours for clients. We mapped the whole thing: the six operations a small firm runs besides law →
- Accounting, payroll, bookkeeping & financial services
- “Business of law” consulting
- Human resources & recruiting
- IT services & general administration
- Insurance & employee benefits via LawPAK
Who uses it
Launch. Run. Rescue.
Launch a new firm
Accounts, payroll, systems, and insurance from day one — open your doors ready to practice. What your first hire triggers →
Run your back office
Ongoing managed accounting, HR, and IT — a full operations team for a fraction of a hire.
Rescue a project
A migration, an audit, a move, a merger — decades of legal-management experience, on demand.
Law firm payroll is not generic payroll.
A general payroll vendor runs wages and files the deposits. A law firm needs five things on top of that, and getting any of them wrong shows up at tax time, at renewal, or in a bar audit.
Partner pay is not wages
Partners in an LLP or PLLC typically take draws or guaranteed payments while associates and staff are on W-2 payroll. The split has to be right for taxes, retirement plan limits, and benefits eligibility.
Trust money stays out of it
Client trust funds never touch operating payroll. The bookkeeping has to keep the operating and trust accounts, and their reconciliations, completely separate.
Classification decides your obligations
Of counsel, contract attorneys, and part-time paralegals: whether each is W-2 or 1099 determines overtime, workers’ comp, and benefits duties. What the first hire triggers →
Bonuses and origination credit
Associate bonuses, origination-based partner compensation, and year-end true-ups need tracking a bare payroll run does not provide.
Insurance rides on payroll
Workers’ comp premiums are rated on payroll by class, and benefits deductions run through every pay cycle. Payroll and coverage coordinated by one team is the point. The law firm back office →
The whole car includes the garage.
Ask how back-office services pair with your insurance suite.