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LeanLaw
Boise, Idaho, United States
What it is
LeanLaw provides law firms with timekeeping, billing, trust accounting, payments, and financial reporting built around QuickBooks Online. It supports hourly, flat-fee, and contingency billing workflows. Trust-accounting features include three-way reconciliation, automated transfers from trust to operating accounts, sub-ledger management, and IOLTA reporting. The Core plan is $55 a month per user and includes time and expense tracking, e-payments, reporting, trust accounting, professional invoices, and two-way QuickBooks Online sync. Pro is $75 a month per user and adds custom invoice templates, LEDES files, precise user permissions, and matter-based accounting. Contingency and Elite pricing is custom. LeanLaw requires an active QuickBooks Online subscription; QuickBooks Desktop is not supported. The 14-day trial does not require a credit card, but migration and QuickStart onboarding begin with a paid subscription. Its mobile app lets users view matter details but not create or edit matters. The public REST API supports programmatic access to clients and matters, time entries, expenses, invoices, users, and codes.
For and against
For
- Supports hourly, flat-fee, and contingency billing.
- Trust accounting includes three-way reconciliation and IOLTA reporting.
- Core includes two-way QuickBooks Online sync.
- The 14-day trial does not require a credit card.
- The public REST API covers matters, invoices, and time entries.
Against
- An active QuickBooks Online subscription is required.
- QuickBooks Desktop is not supported.
- The mobile app cannot create or edit matters.
- Migration and QuickStart onboarding begin with a paid subscription.
The verdict
LeanLaw combines law firm billing and trust-accounting workflows with QuickBooks Online. Check the accounting subscription requirement and mobile editing limit before choosing it.
Who it suits
LeanLaw is designed for modern, mid-sized law firms seeking connected financial workflows. It may suit firms that use QuickBooks Online and need billing, trust accounting, and timekeeping tools.
Plans and prices
Core
time and expense tracking · e-payments · reporting dashboard · trust accounting (IOLTA)
Read 15 Oct 2026 · leanlaw.co
Pro
Core features · three custom invoice templates · LEDES files · precise user permissions
Read 15 Oct 2026 · leanlaw.co
Contingency
Settlement Wizard · lien management and tracking · automated settlement statements · Contingency Insights
Read 15 Oct 2026 · leanlaw.co
Elite
Core, Pro and Contingency features · unlimited invoice templates · priority support · dedicated manager
Read 15 Oct 2026 · leanlaw.co
On the record
- API
- LeanLaw offers a public REST API supporting programmatic reads and writes for clients, matters, time entries, expenses, invoices, users and LEDES codes.support.leanlaw.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- API endpoint
- The documented API base endpoint is https://api.leanlaw.io and examples use Bearer API-key authentication over HTTPS.platform.leanlaw.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Billing and invoicing
- Billing supports WIP review, bulk rate edits, LEDES formatting, split billing and client-portal delivery.leanlaw.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- Billing models
- The product supports hourly, flat-fee and contingency billing workflows.leanlaw.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- Billing workflows
- The product supports hourly, flat-fee, and contingency billing workflows.leanlaw.co · read 3 Oct 2026
- Company founded
- Stanford CodeX lists LeanLaw as founded in 2014.techindex.law.stanford.edu · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters and size
- LinkedIn lists headquarters in Boise, Idaho and company size of 11–50 employees.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- A funding database identifies LeanLaw's legal name as UserFirst Software Inc.app.fundz.net · read 15 Oct 2026
- Compensation tracking
- Reports can track origination, responsible-attorney and working-attorney allocations, plus matter profitability.leanlaw.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- Desktop installation
- A lightweight Windows and Mac Desktop Tracker can be installed from LeanLaw settings for time entry and timers.support.leanlaw.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- Desktop limitation
- Desktop Tracker synchronization requires an active network connection and does not support offline entries.support.leanlaw.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- Developer documentation
- The developer portal provides interactive endpoint documentation, authentication guidance, examples and a test function for API requests.platform.leanlaw.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation and support
- The knowledge base covers setup, clients, time, expenses, billing, payments, trust accounting, reporting, administration, integrations and API topics.support.leanlaw.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- E-payments
- LeanLaw supports payment links, ACH and credit-card payments, with payment activity reconciled to QuickBooks Online.leanlaw.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- Expense tracking
- The product records matter expenses on desktop or mobile and can generate filtered expense reports.leanlaw.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- Funding
- Owler reports $7.0 million total funding, including a $4 million Series A in March 2023 and a $625,000 debt round in June 2026.owler.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Integration limit
- The NetDocuments integration requires a Pro or Elite LeanLaw subscription and an active NetDocuments account.support.leanlaw.co · read 3 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- LeanLaw describes its NetDocuments integration as syncing client and matter data, and its integrations page also names Confido Legal and Billables.ai.leanlaw.co · read 3 Oct 2026
