Legal accounting, law firm billing software - BC4Legal

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Built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, BC4Legal gives law firms a robust financial management foundation with integrated bookkeeping, journals, bank account management, and reconciliation capabilities. Business Central provides core accounting and bookkeeping functionality for day-to-day financial operations, while d365Legal extends that foundation to meet the specialist requirements of legal finance, including client fund controls, matter-based visibility, and practice-specific reporting.

For firms that manage client money, BC4Legal supports a finance architecture that helps separate trust funds from operating funds. This includes support for a dedicated trust bank account, a liability control account for client funds, and accounting structures that keep balances attributable to the correct owner rather than treating trust balances as firm revenue. This approach aligns with established legal trust accounting principles that require client funds to be held separately and clearly identified.

To support clear ownership and reporting of balances, firms can configure a separate ledger structure or use dimensions for each client, matter, and practice area. That means every transaction can be tracked with the context legal finance teams need—showing which client owns the balance, which matter it relates to, and which practice area it belongs to. The result is stronger visibility, more accurate reconciliation, and better control over trust, WIP, disbursements, and operating activity across the firm.

• Integrated bookkeeping and general ledger processes
• Flexible journals for controlled financial posting
• Bank account management and reconciliation workflows
• Support for separate trust bank account structures
• Liability control account setup for client funds held in trust
• Client, matter, and practice area tracking through ledger design or dimensions
• Stronger audit trails and financial transparency
• Improved reporting across trust, operating, and matter-level balances

With d365Legal and BC4Legal, firms can modernize legal finance without stepping away from the Microsoft ecosystem. They gain the control required for legal accounting, the flexibility to report by client and matter, and the benefit of running finance as part of a broader One Microsoft platform that connects client engagement, legal operations, financial management, and talent strategy.