Running a 10-20 timekeeper firm, where one bad month shows up fast
You're not a solo shop anymore, but you're still the one who notices when something's off, usually weeks after it happened. LawKPIs is built to catch it the same day, without adding a headcount to do it.
What running a firm this size actually looks like
Somewhere between 10 and 20 timekeepers, you stop being able to hold the whole firm in your head, but you haven't hired anyone whose job is watching the numbers either.
You or a couple of partners still run operations
There's no COO, no dedicated finance hire. It's an owner, or two or three partners, doing that work on top of a full caseload. Whatever gets reviewed gets reviewed at night or between hearings.
The numbers exist, but nobody's watching them daily
Your practice management system and QuickBooks both have the truth in them somewhere. Pulling it together into one picture is a task that keeps losing to actual client work, so it happens monthly if it happens at all.
The leaks that hit hardest at this size
A firm with 60 timekeepers can absorb a bad month in one practice group. A firm with 15 usually can't. There's less room to average out a problem before it shows up in the bank balance.
Thin margin for error
With fewer matters and fewer timekeepers, one write-off, one slow-paying client, or one associate under target hours moves the firm's whole month, not just one line on a report.
Realization drift no one's tracking
Discounts get given case by case, in the moment, with good reasons each time. Nobody adds them up across a month until the deposit looks smaller than the hours worked would suggest.
Collections that quietly age
At this size, AR follow-up is usually someone's side task. Invoices drift past 60 and 90 days not because clients refuse to pay, but because nobody flagged them in time to ask.
What LawKPIs shows you day one
You connect Clio, MyCase, Smokeball, or Lawcus first, read-only, in minutes. As soon as QuickBooks Online joins, true profitability comes into view.
Most firms this size see their first flagged item worth acting on in the first Daily Pulse email, before they've had time to configure anything. No dashboards to build, no reports to design. It arrives already ranked by what it's worth.
The plan that fits a firm this size
Firms in this range are usually best served by the 11–20 timekeepers plan. If you're closer to 10, the 1–10 plan may fit better, worth checking on the pricing page.
See your firm's first Pulse before you commit to anything
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