Inside LawAccounting's Court Fee Application Engine: How Bankruptcy, Probate, and Guardianship Firms Turn Raw Time and Cost Detail Into a Court-Ready Fee Petition (2026 Feature Spotlight)

When a judge approves your fee instead of a client, the invoice is not the end of the process — it is an exhibit. Bankruptcy, probate, guardianship, and class-action firms have to reconstruct months of time and cost detail into a formatted petition that survives review by a trustee, a US Trustee's office, or an examining judge. Here is how LawAccounting builds that petition from the ledger instead of from a paralegal's spreadsheet.