Note: Revenue allocation reports are only available in LeanLaw Pro.
Among the many useful ways you can configure your firm's settings, the Compensation Tracking page lets you set firm-wide allocation settings, origination shares for your attorneys, and establish a firm share.
This article focuses on configuring your firm's compensation tracking settings; for more information about using revenue reports, click here.
How to view your Compensation Tracking Settings
1. Click Settings
In the upper right corner of LeanLaw, click the gear shaped icon ⚙️. This will take you to your firm's Settings page.
2. Click Compensation Tracking
In your firm's Settings, under the Firm Setup heading on the left hand side, click Compensation Tracking to open the Compensation Tracking Settings. You should now see your firm's Compensation Tracking.
Settings details
In the table below, we provide more details about Compensation Tracking and explanations of how they can customize your firm's revenue allocation.
Setting | Description | Typical Setting |
Enable Adjustments for Time Entries | Adjustments, or write-downs, are reductions made to recorded billable hours. If enabled, this setting will add a section to relevant reports for write-down values. If disabled, hours will still be billed and reported at write-down values, but you won't see how many hours were adjusted. | checkmark=enabled |
Originating Attorney Share | In matters where you have an originating attorney, this value determines the share of revenue which those attorneys receive from those matters. This is a firm-wide setting, but it be changed at the matter level as well. | blank |
Responsible Attorney Share | This value determines the share of revenue which will be allocated from all payments to their matter's Responsible attorney. | blank |
Firm Share | This value allows you to assign a percentage of incoming revenue to the firm to cover firm overhead. | blank |
Allocate all services to responsible attorney | If enabled, all unallocated fixed fees and hours will automatically be allocated to the responsible attorney of a matter. If disabled, all hours and fixed fees hours will remain unallocated. | checkmark=disabled |
Allocate unallocated fixed fees to responsible attorney | If enabled, unallocated fixed fees will automatically be assigned to the responsible attorney of a matter. If disabled, all unallocated fixed fees will remain unallocated. | checkmark=disabled
hidden if Allocate all services to responsible attorney is enabled. |
Allocate unallocated fixed fees to responsible attorney | If enabled, unallocated fixed fees will automatically be assigned to the originating attorney of a matter. If disabled, all unallocated fixed fees will remain unallocated. | checkmark=disabled
hidden if Allocate all services to responsible attorney is enabled. |
Allocate expenses | If enabled, all unallocated expenses will be automatically allocated to the attorney responsible for the matter. If disabled, expenses will be remain unassigned. | checkmark=disabled |
Allocate credits as revenue | If enabled, credits added during invoice creation will be calculated as revenue in your firm's reports. If disabled, credits added during invoice creation will not count as revenue for your firm. | checkmark=disabled |
Revenue Allocation for Users | This dropdown allows you to change whether users is set up for self allocation or responsible allocation.
Responsible: All remaining revenue (after taxes, firm share, origination, and other allocations have been made) for this user's time entries will be assigned to the responsible attorney.
Self: All remaining revenue (after taxes, firm share, origination, and other allocations have been made) for this user's time entries will be assigned to them. | dropdown: click Show to reveal users' settings.
default=Self |