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Billing & Trust

Financial operations that connect to your cases.

Every invoice links to a client, matter, and time entry. Trust accounts are IOLTA-compliant. AI intelligence surfaces insights — but never touches the money.

12
database tables
60+
API endpoints
19
AI analyzers
IOLTA
compliant
How It Works

From time entry to payment

Automated billing workflows with AI-powered optimization at every step.

Track TimeLog billable hours with case association and categories
AI SuggestionsFinancial Intelligence identifies billing opportunities
Create InvoiceGenerate invoices with line items, tax, and discounts
Send to ClientDeliver invoice via email with online payment option
Record PaymentTrack payments, trust transactions, and outstanding balances
Capabilities

Complete billing toolkit

Everything you need to manage firm finances efficiently.

Financial Intelligence

AI-powered suggestions for billing opportunities, unbilled time, and trust alerts.

Trust Account Management

IOLTA-compliant trust accounting with per-matter accounts and reconciliation.

Invoice Generation

Professional invoices with 80+ template options and PDF export.

Payment Tracking

Record payments via check, card, bank transfer, or Stripe.

Unbilled Time Detection

AI identifies meetings and work without time entries.

Recurring Invoices

Automatic invoice generation on weekly, monthly, or quarterly schedules.

LEDES Export

Corporate e-billing compliance with LEDES 1998BI format.

Matter Budgets

Budget tracking per matter with utilization percentages.

Revenue Leakage Detection

AI scans for unbilled work across emails, calendar, and documents.

Matter-Connected

Every invoice tied to a case

Per-matter financial tracking with budgets, contingency fees, and auto-generated invoices from unbilled time.

Real-time

Per-Matter Tracking

See billed, collected, outstanding, and expenses for every matter.

Auto-synced

Matter Budgets

Track budget utilization per matter with alerts when approaching limits.

3 types

Contingency Fees

Support for percentage, flat fee, and hybrid contingency arrangements.

Trust Accounting

IOLTA-compliant trust management

Per-matter trust accounts with deposit, withdrawal, and transfer workflows. Every transaction logs balance-after for full auditability.

Deposit

Fund trust accounts with Stripe or manual entry. Balance-after logged.

Withdraw

Insufficient balance checks before every withdrawal. Full audit trail.

Reconcile

Timestamped reconciliation with expected vs actual balance verification.

AI Intelligence

19 financial analyzers working for you

Billing velocity, revenue leakage, trust health, cash flow forecasting — AI surfaces insights but never touches the money.

Real-time

Billing Velocity

Tracks time-to-invoice and identifies bottlenecks.

Auto-detected

Revenue Leakage

Scans emails, calendar, docs for unbilled work.

0-100 score

Trust Health

IOLTA compliance score with cash flow forecasting.

Predictive

Cash Flow

Predicts when trust will run out based on patterns.

Governance

5 non-negotiable AI safeguards

AI intelligence that surfaces insights — but never touches the money.

S1

No Time Creation

AI cannot create billable time entries without human input

S2

No Auto-Send

AI cannot execute financial transactions or send invoices

S3

Suggestions Only

All AI outputs go through the Suggestions Inbox for review

S4

Manual Override

Manual time tracking always overrides AI suggestions

S5

AI Activity Unbilled

AI agent activity is never billed to clients

Compliance

Immutable audit trails

SHA-256 checksums, decision path tracking, and tiered storage for full regulatory compliance.

SHA-256 Checksums

Every transaction cryptographically sealed for tamper-evident records.

Decision Tracking

Full path from AI suggestion to human approval to execution.

Tiered Storage

Hot (30 days), warm (1 year), cold (7 years) retention policies.

Billing & Trust

Every invoice tracked, every trust account compliant, every dollar accounted for.

FernLex automates billing from time entries to payment, keeps trust accounts IOLTA-compliant, and uses AI to surface unbilled work — all connected to the matter, all reviewed by your team.

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