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Solutions for Law Practices

focus on your client, not your cash flow

If you are one of almost 163,000 law firms in the US, you are busy throughout the day managing your clients, while ensuring targets for billable hours are met and billing for client work is efficient. And, if you’re a small firm, it’s even more challenging to manage your business.

We work with law professionals like you every day and understand your unique needs. Let us partner with you to ease the burden of worrying about your financial position and help you get back to what you’re best at doing.

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Challenge: Ensuring Timely Payment from Clients

Maintaining sufficient cash flow means efficient and routine billing while processing payments and measuring receivables.

Ask yourself these questions:

How many of your clients pay by credit card? Check?
For clients who pay by check, is there a delay from receipt of check to availability of funds?
How much staff time and expense is devoted to processing payments received?
What difficulties do payment delays cause in managing cash flow?

How we can help you:

Merchant Services to allow you to accept debit and credit card payments from customers, reducing the processing times for payments.
Lines of Credit, to help you navigate ebbs and flows in your available cash.
Remote Deposit Capture to let you quickly and easily deposit checks into your account from anywhere, so your funds are deposited into your account faster, and you have more time to run your business.

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Challenge: Efficiently Managing Trust Accounts

You have the responsibility to keep client funds separate from those of your firm. Client funds that are to be held for a short period of time or are a small amount are deposited in an interest-bearing account or IOLTA (Interest on Lawyer’s Trust Account)

Ask yourself these questions:

How often do you require up-front retainers from clients?
How many separate trust accounts do you maintain for clients?
What is the typical amount of total client funds maintained in a pooled account? Is this an IOLTA account?

How we can help you:

IOTLA Account, to let you manage funds while also helping people in need afford legal help.

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Challenge: Managing Cash Shortfalls During the Year

You are challenged to manage cash flow that is especially impacted seasonally, due to aggressive year-end collections and bonus payments to partners and staff.

Ask yourself these questions:

How do you monitor your cash balances on a regular basis?
What cash flow challenges do you encounter during the year?
If you take on contingency work, how do you cover expenses during the cases?

How we can help:

Business Online and Mobile Banking, so you can monitor and track balances and activities while you’re in the office or on the go.
Lines of Credit, to manage the gaps in cash flow and cover up front expenses.

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