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Pass your law-firm money audit, fast
Rebuild client-money records and hand auditors a clean binder.
Score 7.9/10 · Worth testing
For businesses
7 June 2026
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7.9 out of 10. Score 7.9/10 · Worth testing
The problem
Most lawyers handle client money every day but keep records in spreadsheets or mismatched ledgers. That quiet bookkeeping habit becomes a crisis when a state bar orders a trust‑account review and the firm can’t prove who owns which dollars. Small and mid‑size firms and solo lawyers are most exposed — there are about 1.32 million active U.S. lawyers across roughly 420k–464k firms, many solo or very small (American Bar Association; Statista), and cleanup engagements commonly cost firms thousands and can trigger weeks of lost billable time and CPA audit fees (Firm Balance; Aligned CPA). Existing bookkeeping or general accounting services either lack legal trust‑account expertise or price full cleanups as bespoke, slow projects, leaving a gap between fast triage and full forensic rebuilds. Why now: several states expanded mandatory reporting, compliance reviews, and investigative audits in recent years (State Bar of California CTAPP rules; multiple state trust-account handbooks), and firms delayed reconciliations during pandemic disruptions, making multi-year backlogs common today (State bar handbooks; CTAPP resources).
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