Creating Completion-Based Fixed Fees: Legal firms can now create fixed fees that don't have a known end date from the start. This empowers legal professionals to adapt to the dynamic nature of their work, ensuring that fees accurately reflect the completion of tasks or projects. Instead of a date-based fixed fee, users can now create an "On-Completion" fixed fee that will remain hidden from Ready to Bill until your firm marks it complete.

Tracking Time Entries Against Specific Fixed Fees: LeanLaw's new feature allows attorneys and timekeepers to seamlessly track time entries against specific fixed fees, offering granular insights into resource allocation and facilitating more accurate billing. With this enhanced visibility, legal professionals can monitor progress and identify areas of improvement.

Flexible Allocation of Time Entries: Completion-Based Fixed Fee Billing enables attorneys and timekeepers to easily switch and assign time entries to different fixed fees. This capability ensures that billing remains accurate and aligned with the evolving needs of the legal matter.

Streamlined Workflow: By automating common rate management tasks, such as setting individual rates for each user or updating rates for multiple matters, "Rate Groups" significantly reduces manual effort, allowing billing administrators to focus on more strategic activities.

Time Savings: The time-consuming process of updating rates yearly or adjusting rates for new clients/matters is simplified, enabling billing administrators to save valuable hours that can be redirected towards more productive endeavors.

Accuracy and Consistency: With standardized rate groups, firms can ensure accurate and consistent billing practices, minimizing errors and improving client satisfaction.

Enhanced Flexibility: "Rate Groups" offers the flexibility to configure and customize rates based on specific client requirements and date ranges, empowering firms to cater to individual client needs while maintaining efficiency.

Fixed an issue where the Auto Assign to Matters user permission did not give a user access to all clients and matters on timers.

Fixed an issue where the the UI made it look as if users could delete Rate Groups while they were still in use.

When a firm has No Payment Links in Memo enabled (this is enabled by default) payment links will now be created in the moment that an invoice is emailed, instead of the moment that the invoice is created in QuickBooks Online.

Fixed an issue where Enforced Rounding was triggering even while firms didn't have Enforced Rounding enabled.

Fixed an issue where duplicate matters would sometimes be created in Gravity Legal when creating payment links for matters set to matter-accounting.

Removed the 2 and 3 year options from the Subscription page.

Fixed an issue where duplicating a rate group would fail to refresh the page due to a silent error.

Fixed an issue where all Archived and Last Activity dates on the Matter Activity report appeared as 01/01/01.

Fixed an issue that prevented multimatter draft invoices from being approved, instead triggering an error related to custom fields.

Added the ability to filter the Time Entries page by This Year.

Removed the ability to sort the Clients page's data by Responsible. This function was resource-heavy and not very productive anyway, because clients can have so many responsible users via multiple matters. We encourage users to instead use the Show Matters Involving filter while selecting the Responsible checkbox to view clients by their responsible users.

Added Expenses and Fixed Fees to the "Add Matter Name to Description" setting found in the Invoice Presentation page of firm settings. Previously, this setting only supported time entries.

Added a more user-friendly error message for when a user tries to accept an invite to LeanLaw that has already been accepted.

Removed the 2 and 3 year subscription options in preparation for new upcoming subscription plans.

Fixed an issue where the Combine Time Entries For Same Day setting could cause time entries to be rounded to a value that QuickBooks wouldn't accept (required rates that ended in odd cent values).

Fixed issue where custom fields would disappear on edited invoices.

LEDES files' "BILLING_START_DATE" and "BILLING_END_DATE" will now use whatever the Time Period was set to on the Ready to Bill page when the draft invoice was created.

Optimized the code used when creating LEDES files, which should fix some issues encountered when trying to make LEDES files from very large invoices, or large batches of invoices.

Improved the efficiency of expense syncing.

Increased “database pool size” to address recent resource limitations (timeout errors).

Fixed an issue where the Clients tab would time out in firms with lots of matters

Fixed a potential issue when quickbooks credentials were refreshed for a client

Added tracking to subscriptions to allow us to measure when users upgrade from core/legacy to pro.

Fixed performance issue related to recurring fixed fee.

Improved performance in more areas of the product where custom fields are used.

Improved performance on the Ready to Bill page in firms that have LeanLaw custom fields enabled.

Fixed an issue where edits to an expense synced from QuickBooks would not trigger an automatic refresh of the Expenses page, which made it look as though the edits had not been saved.

Improved instantiating of httpclient to reuse ports where they weren't being reused previously. This should result in improved performance across the product--especially during times of high traffic.

Fixed an issue when printing multiple invoices where fees and expenses wouldn't appear on the cover sheet if the invoice amount had been changed after the invoice went to QuickBooks, such as by taxes or discounts.

Fixed an issue where the Billing Activity page sometimes wouldn't show invoice totals that had been changed by things like taxes or interest line items.

Fixed an issue that caused recurring fixed fees to create duplicate fixed fees on recurrence.

The Send to QuickBooks function within distributions will now create a bill labeled "DIS" followed by a timestamp in the MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS format. This will allow users to send multiple distributions to QuickBooks in the same day, even if they have protections in place to block duplicate bill names.

Fixed an issue where opening a distribution would crash if the user deleted its only payment(s) from QuickBooks. Now, the distribution will open and show that there are no payments in the distribution.