With computer software, the prebill has taken on new dimensions. In manual billing systems, attorneys often prepared a rough draft bill from which he or she would edit and create (after usually more than one draft) a bill. With the first word processors, editing became easier and more flexible. With the first software based attorney…

Payment Due Dates and Reminder Bills At Interbill we consider a client’s payment to be overdue when the client has not paid by the payment due date printed on the client’s statement. We strongly recommend that attorneys send a reminder bill for each overdue statement within 3 days after the payment due date. The best…

We at Interbill strongly recommend that attorneys  include a specific payment due date on all statements sent to individual clients or small business clients. Some attorneys use the words “Payment Due upon Receipt”, we discourage this practice. Individual clients and small business clients often have competing cash flow needs. A clearly identified payment due date…

Law Firm Financial Consultant Bruce MacEwen in his book ,“Growth Is Dead-Now What?,” said that there are two things necessary to sustain a private law practice: Getting Clients and Getting Them To Pay. Interbill is in the business of getting clients to pay, not in the business of getting clients, although sometimes accommodating client payment…

Many attorneys email bills to their clients. Unfortunately, in my experience, emailed bills are not paid as well as mailed paper bills. Most people receive a lot of emails. Emails tend to be transitory in nature. Most emails do not require us to do anything. When we receive a bill in the mail we usually…