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The Tragedy of Law Firm Cash Flow

October 13, 2025
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Bill Bice
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2 min read
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…and How to Immediately Fix It

Every law firm has the same problem: you’ve done the work, sent the bill… and then you wait. Weeks turn into months before the money you’ve already earned shows up.

And while you’re waiting, your managing partner is worrying about cash flow. Your billing team is drowning in follow-ups and manual reminders. And your firm? It’s delaying decisions — hiring, investing, taking on new matters — because the cash just isn’t there.

That’s why we built BillQ, our Invoices-to-Cash platform. It takes the bills you’ve already created, automates the workflow to get them out faster and follow-up, and makes it easy for clients to pay online. The result? You get paid weeks sooner with less work.

Most firms are leaving money on the table. But what if you could shrink your A/R lockup, improving your collected realization rate and increasing your firm’s working capital by 5.6% in 90 days?

With 80+ firms live on BillQ, we know where the highest value, easiest to implement strategies are to improve law firm cash flow. Strategies that work with and improve your current workflow but don’t require drastic change to see impressive results.

You’ve already earned the money. We help you bill and collect it faster:

  • Automate bill delivery with workflows that manage all the exceptions while providing oversight of billers and/or attorneys
  • Increase the throughput of collections with automated A/R Notices with appropriate customization, oversight and attorney involvement
  • Centrally track all billing and collections activity so everyone knows the status
  • Deliver a simple and elegant payment experience for clients, with automatic cash application back into the financial management system
  • Leverage real AI that drives actionable insights across the entire process

Author

Portrait of Bill Bice, CEO of Zebraworks

Bill Bice

CEO | Zebraworks

Recognized as a legal tech industry visionary, receiving Thomson’s innovator of the year award. Founder of ProLaw Software (acquired by Thomson Reuters), West km (used by 70% of the top 1000 law firms worldwide) and Exemplify (acquired by Bloomberg Law).

The return is measurable.

Improve your cash flow by 5.6% in 90 days
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