Ensuring your law firm’s financial security is crucial to avoiding embezzlement and fraud. Law firm fraud prevention starts with understanding the various ways employees might commit fraud, from payroll fraud to misuse of credit cards. This blog post dives into accounting horror stories that demonstrate the real risks your law firm faces. Without internal controls and vigilant financial oversight, your law firm’s assets are at risk.

Navigating the financial landscape of a law firm can be complex, especially when it comes to deciding who to trust with business advice. Relying solely on your tax preparer for business advice can be problematic. While tax preparers excel in compliance and minimizing tax liabilities, they often lack the broader business strategy perspective that a CFO or financial advisor provides.

Master the complexities of Estimated Quarterly Tax Payments with Core Solutions Group's expert guidance for law firms. Explore our strategic approach to quarterly tax payments, utilizing IRS Form 1040-ES and optimizing Federal and State income tax obligations. Learn how to leverage tax vouchers effectively, calculate precise tax liability, and identify deductions and credits tailored to the legal industry.

Mastering Client Payments: A Proven Strategy We address the age-old issue: clients not paying on time. Frustrated with this common hurdle? You're not alone. 7 out of 10 law firms face the same challenge. What sets successful firms apart? They have airtight systems that ensure timely payments and minimal collections cases. Julie's story resonates with many. When about to implement an accounts receivable process, hesitation kicked in. The hard truth: clients take paying serio

Parkinson’s Law and Practicing Law: The Money-Time Connection Remember that exhilarating feeling when you decided to launch your own law business? The thrill of making a difference, earning money, and gaining time for what truly matters? Fast forward, and while your firm is making good money, your take-home isn't what you envisioned. You're investing heart and soul, yet your profits aren't aligning. Time and money are intertwined, and as a business owner, you grasp residual

Mastering Profitability: Making Informed Choices We delve into understanding your profitability like a pro. Let's break it down with a real-life example. Practice Area 1 yields $3k revenue per case, with $996 in wages and $425 in expenses, leaving $1,579 for the firm. The total hours invested? Around 9, translating to approximately $175 per hour. Contrastingly, Practice Area 2 rakes in $5k revenue, $654 in wages, $900 in expenses, and a firm share of $3,446. The hours inves

Unlock Legal Business Success through Financial Insights! Discover how your numbers become powerful tools for strategic decisions, steering your venture towards profitability. Explore formulas within your financials to forecast your future, focusing on specialized services like estate planning and business law for added value. Meet Tim, a veteran lawyer whose passion waned due to business pressures. Don't let that be your story. Regain your power to positively impact lives w

In these fictitious yet instructive examples, a vital lesson emerges. The crux? Brace yourself! The initial scenario hints at your legal business's profitability, yet conceals its origins. In contrast, example #2 unveils a gem: your unmatched profits flow from uncontested divorces, yielding a striking 93% gross profit margin pre-deductibles. On the flip side, no-fault divorce cases yield a modest 59% gross profit margin pre-expenses. These insights empower strategic enhancem

Taxes are as complex, tedious, and ever-changing as you think they are. Be intimidated, it’s valid. That’s why it’s important you...

If You’re Growing And Scaling, You’ve Either Already Considered This Question Or You’re Starting To Ask Yourself This Question. Hope is not a strategy, so when your client base grows to fit the time you have to dedicate to work, your next step is to delegate the tasks that someone else can easily take over for you allowing you to re-invest your time into tasks that are bringing more money into your firm. In this blog post, we’ll go over the pros and cons of outsourcing vs.

I know, you keep hearing about flat fees and how it’s the thing to do. You also have your doubts about why it might not work for you, or you don’t know where to start to make this transition. Truth be told, not every practice area is a good fit for a flat fee model. However, most of them are. And with a little bit of data, you can make the switch without sacrificing profits.

The biggest thing that holds firms back from profits is the belief around money. If you believe it’s hard to earn 1 Million in annual revenue, your path to becoming a 1M+ firm is going to be a rough one. You’ve heard, “if you say you can, you’re right and if you say you can’t, you’re right”?

If you’re growing and scaling, you’ve either already considered this question or you’re starting to ask yourself this question.

If you aren’t listening to what people are saying about lawyers, you’re missing out on the opportunity to overcome the stereotypes.

Say the words “billable hour” to any attorney and they might groan at the memory of tracking their work time in three-minute increments. Billable hours, once a staple of the law industry, are quickly becoming a thing of the past. So, what’s next?

Yes, it’s that time of year again. But this year, let’s be a little more proactive. Intentions are great, but they are nothing without action.