Run your firm like the business it is.
Fractional CFO, accounting, and analytics for law firms of 5–50 attorneys. We make your realization, your practice area profitability, and your partner comp model impossible to ignore.
The questions that keep you up at night.
These are the problems our clients bring us. If any of them sound familiar, we should talk.
Realization
"We billed $4.2M last quarter and collected $3.6M. Nobody can tell me exactly where the gap went."
Profitability
“Litigation feels like it's carrying the firm but I genuinely don't know if that's true. "
Comp
"Partner comp season is coming and I'm dreading it. Our formula hasn't kept up with the firm."
Growth
"We want to add two partners and a practice group. I can't model what that actually does to distributions."
We don’t just advise. We build with you.
We augment the financial, analytical, and strategic capacity of your executive team. We lead projects and functional areas, and then we execute. Above all, we view ourselves as members of your team and take responsibility for delivering.
Constant communication
Monthly financial reviews with the managing partner, quarterly sessions with the full partnership. We adapt to your governance cadence, not the other way around.
Always on
Available 24/7/365. When a matter settles late on a Friday or you need numbers for a Monday partner meeting, your finance team picks up the phone.
20,000 lines of code
Our proprietary tooling pulls your practice management system, billing platform, and trust accounting into one view. Realization by attorney, profitability by practice area, partner productivity, in hours, not at year-end.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Your first 90 days with Greenleaf
Three phases. Concrete outcomes. No ramp-up theater.
Month 1
Diagnostic
We rebuild realization from the invoice level, separate working-attorney from originating credit, and establish practice-area P&Ls that hold up to scrutiny.
Goal: You see your firm's real realization rate, often for the first time.
Month 2
Quick wins
Billing cycle tightening, AR acceleration on your oldest accounts, and pricing recommendations for practice areas below market.
Goal: Reporting inconsistencies cleaned up before your next partner meeting.
Month 3
Structural work
Partner comp modeling for your next review cycle, practice-area profitability analysis, and a governance cadence tied to partnership rhythm.
Goal: Numbers your partners can trust and defend.
Common questions
Everything you need to know before we talk.
-
Different jobs. Your firm administrator handles operations and your bookkeeper handles the ledger. Neither role typically builds the financial analysis you need to make partner comp decisions, evaluate practice area profitability, or model a lateral hire's economic impact. We work alongside both, we're not replacing them, we're adding the strategic layer most firms under 50 attorneys don't have in-house.
-
Multi-partner firms get the most value from what we do. Our sweet spot is 5–50 attorneys, where compensation, profitability, and growth questions get genuinely complex. Below five attorneys, a strong bookkeeper and a good tax advisor usually cover the need. Above fifty, you likely have a full-time CFO and controller already.
-
The first 30–60 days is cleanup and diagnostic. We rebuild your realization calculation from the invoice level, separate working-attorney from originating-attorney credit in the numbers, and establish a practice area P&L that holds up. Most managing partners have their first "this is the report I've been asking for" moment in month two. Bigger structural work, such as, overhauling comp, restructuring practice groups, takes a quarter or two.