YOU DIDN’T GO TO LAW SCHOOL TO BECOME A BOOKKEEPER
If you’re running a small law firm, half your week disappears into legal billing services, collections, reconciling the trust account, and closing out the month — none of which anyone taught you in law school. So you’re teaching yourself as you go. Or ignoring it altogether.
Here’s what years of running our own firm taught us: the lawyers who struggle most aren’t the ones who are bad at law. They’re the ones trying to run the business side alone.
That’s why we built CollegaLaw — a legal back-office team started by lawyers, for lawyers. We already know the difference between a retainer and a trust account, and we treat deadlines like they matter. Because if you don’t invoice, collect, and account on time, it doesn’t matter how good you are in the courtroom — you’re losing money and time.
You focus on law.
We’re your back office support.
WHAT WE DELIVER
Real back-office legal billing services, done by people who understand law firms.
Billing / Collections
Process pre-bills,
Make any adjustments and prepare the final client bills for emailing
LEDES and custom e‑billing formats
Follow up with collections with monthly statements for all accounts over 30 days past due
Provide monthly legal billing services and collections reports
Accounts Payable
Manage vendors
Enter vendor bills
and set up so that the firm
can process the checks
Credit card reconciliation
Bookkeeping
Monthly Journal Entries
Maintain the chart of accounts and provide information to the external accountant
Set up new matters in the billing software
Record payments received accurately
Manage and reconcile both the operating and trust accounts
Prepare meaningful financial and operating reports
Record expenses and disbursements
Manage storage of financial reports
Trust Accounting & Reconciliation
Settlement Support (for PI firms)
Advanced client cost tracking (IRS-compliant)
COME MEET US
Thursday, October 29, 2026
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Join us for an evening of cocktails,
conversation and a little legal banter about maximizing law firm profit. It’s a great opportunity to meet the CollegaLaw team, swap stories with fellow lawyers, and learn how we can help lighten the back-office workload for working lawyers so they can make more money. We promise there will be no selling—just good people, engaging conversation, and an opportunity to get to know one another.
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