LeanLaw vs MatterX

LeanLaw provides law firms with timekeeping, billing, trust accounting, payments and financial reporting built around QuickBooks Online. It supports hourly, flat-fee and contingency billing. Trust tools include three-way reconciliation, automated transfers from trust to operating accounts, sub-ledger management and IOLTA reporting. The Core plan costs $55 a month per user and includes time and expense tracking, e-payments, reporting, trust accounting, professional invoices and two-way QuickBooks Online sync. Pro costs $75 a month per user and adds custom invoice templates, LEDES files, user permissions and matter-based accounting. Contingency and Elite pricing is custom. An active QuickBooks Online subscription is required; QuickBooks Desktop is not supported. LeanLaw offers a 14-day trial without requiring a credit card, though migration and QuickStart onboarding begin with a paid subscription. The mobile app shows matter details but cannot create or edit matters. The public REST API supports programmatic access to clients, matters, time entries, expenses, invoices, users and codes.

MatterX provides practice management, trust accounting, and legal finance for law firms in Australia and New Zealand. Its Legal Finance suite runs natively on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and covers client and matter lifecycle management, time entry, diary management, billing, trust accounting, and financial reporting. MatterX describes its trust accounting as NSW Law Society certified, with three-way reconciliation, statutory deposits, controlled money handling, audit trails, dual payment authorisation, and compliance exception alerts. The platform connects with Microsoft services including Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, Copilot, and Dataverse. Firms can keep Xero for general accounting and sync it with MatterX matters, billing, and trust accounting. SharePoint document management includes automatic matter folders, version control, full-text search, and granular security. The free Good Minutes plan covers up to five matters. Other plans are tailored by firm size, priced by quote, and month-to-month; MatterX says implementation, training, and data export are included. Frontdesk and Crew AI agents are in preview.