Legal Resources

Streamline Your Firm for Maximum Profitability.

With over 30 years’ experience working with law firms, Whitman Advisory offers strategic staffing, administrative consulting, and back-office accounting services tailored for law firms. We help you achieve measurable results, from accelerating billing cycles and reconciling complex escrow accounts to identifying your most profitable clients. Our expertise allows you to enhance efficiency and focus on core legal work.
What We Do

Tailored Solutions for Law Firm Excellence.

Whitman Advisory delivers targeted operational support to enhance your firm’s efficiency and profitability. Our services are designed to address the specific administrative, financial, and staffing challenges that law firms face.

Strategic Recruiting and Staffing

We recruit and place highly qualified attorneys and legal support staff who align with your firm's culture and strategic goals. Our process ensures you acquire the right talent to drive growth and maintain exceptional client service.

Law Firm Administrative Consulting

Our experts provide guidance on all aspects of firm management. We help you optimize workflows, improve operational structures, and implement best practices to ensure your firm runs seamlessly.

Back-Office Accounting

We manage essential financial functions, including the complex task of reconciling trust and escrow accounts. Our team ensures your firm's financial records are accurate, compliant, and managed with precision.

Fractional COO Services

Gain executive-level operational leadership without the cost of a full-time hire. Our Fractional COOs provide the strategic oversight needed to guide your firm through periods of growth, transition, or special projects.

Process Improvement & Project Management

We streamline critical processes, such as reducing billing cycles from weeks to days and managing complex software conversions or office moves without losing a single billable hour. Our focus is on delivering projects on time and on budget.

Profitability & Financial Strategy

We assist in identifying unprofitable clients and creating detailed budgets and cash flow projections. This strategic financial guidance helps secure necessary financing and improves your firm’s overall financial health

DELIVERING RESULTS

Financial Firepower When You Need It Most

Our streamlined process ensures you get the right financial leader quickly, with an immediate focus on executing a plan that delivers measurable value.

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Our approach to delivering results

At Whitman Advisory, we understand that a law firm’s success requires more than just legal expertise; it needs operational excellence. Many firms face stubborn challenges that hinder their growth and profitability, from inefficient billing cycles to staffing gaps.

Our approach is designed to identify these issues and implement practical, high-impact solutions that produce measurable and lasting results. We provide the strategic guidance and hands-on support necessary to transform your firm’s administrative and financial functions into a competitive advantage.

Our engagement begins with a thorough diagnosis of your firm’s operational and financial health. We analyze critical areas to identify bottlenecks, including staffing structures, billing and collection processes, and the complexities of trust and escrow account reconciliation.

This allows us to pinpoint the root causes of inefficiency and financial drag. With a clear understanding of your unique challenges, we design a practical roadmap that aligns talent, processes, and technology. This strategic plan is not a theoretical exercise, but a concrete blueprint for action, tailored to achieve your specific business objectives.

Implementation is where our expertise creates tangible value. Our team provides hands-on execution, whether that involves recruiting top-tier attorneys and legal staff who fit your culture, managing a full accounting clean-up, or leading complex projects like software conversions and office moves.

We have a proven record of executing these transitions seamlessly, ensuring not a single billable hour is lost. We specialize in accelerating core financial processes, such as shortening billing cycles from weeks to just a few days, which immediately improves cash flow.

Our profitability analysis helps you understand which clients and practice areas drive revenue, while our detailed budgets and bank-ready cash flow statements give you the financial clarity needed to secure loans and plan for the future.

Finally, we ensure your firm maintains its operational momentum through ongoing strategic oversight. With our fractional COO services, we provide executive-level guidance without the expense of a full-time hire. This, combined with a clear reporting cadence, gives you the confidence that your firm is not only running efficiently today but is also positioned for sustained growth and profitability tomorrow.

RESOURCES

We Are the Experts.

Written by legal management professionals, including our own Principal, Barry Jackson, for legal management professionals, Best Practices in Legal Management: A Comprehensive Guide, covers all areas of law firm management, including strategic planning, business development, practice management, human resources, finance, disaster recovery, technology, space planning and more. Published by the New York State Bar Association in conjunction with the New York City Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators. You can get your copy here

CLIENT SUCCESS STORIES

Hear From Our Clients.

The Right Finance Leadership at the Right Time

Interim CFO

A client navigating a critical acquisition gained financial stability and a smooth integration by leveraging a combination of interim, fractional, and permanent finance leadership.

Hiring Win: The Strategic Turnaround

Interim CFO

A PE-backed services company faced unclear cash flow, unreliable reporting, and an unexpected CFO exit. We helped them regain control and clarity of their finances by placing a strategic interim CFO.

Project Manager for a Move

Advisory Services

Legal Resources successfully managed the law firm’s office moves with no issues or lost billable hours.

Solving Billing Efficiencies

Advisory Services

A New Jersey law firm cut its billing time from three weeks to three days after Legal Resources automated their invoicing process.

Reconciling Escrow Accounts

Advisory Services

A New York law firm turned to Legal Resources to restore order and improve efficiency after their CFO quit without notice.