Features
Matter & Trust Accounting
Client funds held safely, every movement posted to the ledger.
Legal accounting has two distinct obligations: accounting for the firm’s own revenue and costs at the matter level, and accounting for client money held in trust. Law360 handles both. Disbursements and cost recoveries are tracked per matter and feed the billing workflow. Client funds in trust are held in a segregated ledger, with every receipt and payment visible and traceable. Every transaction — in either ledger — posts through to the Hitaji ERP general ledger, so the firm’s books are always current.
- Matter-level cost tracking
- Disbursement recording
- Trust / client funds ledger
- Trust receipts and payments
- GL posting via Hitaji ERP
- Audit-ready trail
- 1Record disbursements and cost recoveries
- 2Track the matter P&L
- 3Receive and hold client funds in trust
- 4Pay out from trust with a clear trail
- 5Post every transaction to the general ledger
- 6Run an audit-ready trail
Record disbursements and cost recoveries
Log every disbursement incurred on a matter — court fees, filing charges, expert fees, travel — and recover them on the invoice. Disbursements are categorised, dated, and attached to the matter so the billing run always includes every cost the firm advanced on the client’s behalf.
Track the matter P&L
Each matter carries a running picture of billed fees, recovered disbursements, write-offs, and payments received. Partners see the financial position of individual files without exporting to a spreadsheet, so profitability decisions are grounded in current numbers.
Receive and hold client funds in trust
Record trust receipts — retainers, settlement proceeds, costs advances — against the matter’s trust ledger. Client money is tracked separately from office funds, and the available trust balance is always visible so payments are never made from funds the firm does not hold.
Pay out from trust with a clear trail
Record payments from trust — to the client, to opposing counsel, to the court — with a narration and the date. Each payment reduces the trust balance and generates the corresponding ledger entries. The complete receipt-and-payment history satisfies the audit trail that regulators expect of client-account records.
Post every transaction to the general ledger
Law360 bridges to the Hitaji ERP accounting engine. Every fee, disbursement, trust receipt, and payment posts journal entries to the GL through configurable account mappings — so the firm’s management accounts reflect reality without anyone re-keying transactions into separate accounting software.
Run an audit-ready trail
Because every transaction is recorded at the moment it occurs and posted to the ledger immediately, Law360 provides the complete, time-stamped financial record that external auditors, Law Society inspections, and regulatory reviews require.