For more than 40 years, PCLaw has helped law firms manage their financial and matter information from a single source. Keeping the right tools, updates, and processes in place helps protect the accuracy and continuity of that work.
Built for Legal Accounting
Accounting errors in a law firm can create more than extra administrative work. Trust discrepancies, incomplete client ledgers, disconnected billing and accounting data, or missed reconciliation issues can put financial accuracy and compliance at risk.
These problems can build gradually through inconsistent data entry, manual workarounds, outdated processes, or software that is no longer aligned with how the firm operates.
PCLaw connects legal billing, accounting, trust accounting, and matter management in one system. With connected information and built-in reconciliation tools, your team can review financial activity and investigate discrepancies before they become harder to resolve.
For firms that want additional guidance, PCLaw Professional Services can help strengthen workflows and improve how firms use the software. PCLaw Accounting & Reconciliation Services can help identify issues earlier, improve process consistency, and build greater confidence in PCLaw balances and reports.
Explore PCLaw Accounting & Reconciliation ServicesTrust Accounting Software for Law Firms
Trust accounting leaves little room for uncertainty. A missed transaction, incorrect allocation of client funds, or unresolved reconciliation difference can make it harder to confirm client balances and maintain reliable records. PCLaw provides legal-specific tools that help your firm review trust activity and support consistent reconciliation processes.
By keeping trust activity connected to client and matter records, PCLaw gives your team visibility into trust balances and transactions, while built-in reconciliation tools help your team review potential discrepancies.
Client Trust Ledger report in PCLaw
Legal Billing and Accounting
PCLaw connects your firm's daily work to its billing and accounting records. Time entries and expenses flow into billing, while invoices, payments, and other transactions remain connected to your accounting records.
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Billable and non-billable time and matter expenses are captured as work happens.
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Review pre-bills, apply rates and adjustments, then finalize invoices.
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Allocate payments, manage receivables, recover client expenses, and pay vendors.
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Every transaction stays connected to the firm's accounting records.
When billing and accounting share the same source of information, your firm can reduce duplicate entry, limit manual steps, and maintain more consistent financial records.
Integrated Online Payments
With PCLaw Payments, powered by FeeWise, your firm can offer secure online payments while keeping payment activity connected to its billing and accounting workflows.
PCLaw Payments helps simplify the payment process for clients and gives your team a more efficient way to manage the financial work that follows.
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Matter Management
Financial work does not happen separately from legal work. PCLaw connects each matter with the clients, contacts, calendars, documents, time entries, expenses, and billing information associated with it.
Keeping matter and financial information connected helps your team find information more easily, maintain more consistent records, and work more efficiently.
Client/Matter view in PCLaw
Flexibility for Your Firm
Law firms vary in how they structure billing, manage accounts, organize matters, and report on performance. PCLaw gives firms the flexibility to configure key financial and administrative processes to fit their needs.
As your firm's technology, staffing, and processes evolve, keeping PCLaw current helps the software continue to support the way your firm operates. Firms using older versions may face compatibility challenges and increase reliance on manual workarounds. Even when PCLaw is current, access to training, support, and expert guidance can help teams use available capabilities more effectively.
AMP Membership gives your firm access to current software releases, technical support, training resources, and services that help protect the value of PCLaw over time.
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Built for Law Firms
For more than 40 years, PCLaw has helped law firms manage matter information, billing, payments, vendor activity, trust accounts, calendars, time, and expenses from a single source. The product continues to evolve around the financial and operational needs of legal professionals.
PCLaw improves my operational efficiency substantially, allowing me to give my clients more of my time at the best possible value.
Lance PritikinAttorney and Owner, Law Offices of Lance M. Pritikin
Frequently Asked Questions
Have a question that isn't covered here? Our team can walk you through how PCLaw would work for your firm.
Talk to Our Team →Legal accounting software is designed to help law firms manage time and expense tracking, billing, payments, trust accounting, client ledgers, reconciliation, and financial reporting. It connects financial activity with the clients and matters associated with it. PCLaw combines legal billing, accounting, trust accounting, and matter management in one system.
General accounting software can manage common business finances, but it may not include legal-specific tools for client trust accounts, client ledgers, matter-based billing, retainers, and three-way reconciliation. Legal accounting software brings these functions together around the way law firms manage clients and matters.
Trust accounting software helps law firms record, track, and report money held for clients separately from the firm's operating funds. It can help maintain individual client ledgers, monitor trust balances, reconcile accounts, and document activity. The software supports the process, while each firm remains responsible for following the requirements in its jurisdiction.
IOLTA stands for Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts. These pooled accounts hold qualifying client funds that are too small in amount or held too briefly to earn net interest for an individual client. PCLaw provides tools to track IOLTA and other client trust activity by client and matter. Requirements and terminology vary by jurisdiction.
Three-way reconciliation compares the balance shown on the trust bank statement, the balance in the firm's trust accounting records, and the total of all individual client ledger balances. These amounts should agree after outstanding items are accounted for. Regular reconciliation helps firms identify differences that need review.
PCLaw combines matter management, time and expense tracking, billing, legal accounting, and trust accounting in one system. PCLaw Dashboard provides visibility into firm and matter activity, PCLaw Go supports mobile timekeeping, and PCLaw Payments adds integrated online payment capabilities.
Keeping PCLaw current can help your firm maintain compatibility with supported technology, access product improvements, and reduce reliance on manual workarounds. AMP Membership provides access to current software releases, technical support, training resources, and services that help your team continue to get value from PCLaw.
PCLaw for Your Firm
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