Maine Law Practice Management

Effective billing, like learning any skill, require s repetition.     If you can use the same process for billing every time, it makes it much easier to repeat that process, including for collection purposes.     But, as with many things that require repetition in business, the use of templates can help tremendously, in streamlining your law firm processes .   So, the first question is whether you use ‘activity codes’ for billing .  If you do, it’s easier to generate items on an invoice, tied to the specific activities you perform for clients regularly .  There are activity codes/billing codes for law firms available online (‘LEDES billing’ is a common set of activity codes for law firms to employ), and some softwares include default activity codes for billing – but, you can also generate and maintain your own activity codes, if you wish .   All you need to do is create a shorthand for the task, and maybe employ a number, to make it look official, ya know.     That’s step one