Inside LawAccounting's Flat-Fee & Milestone Billing Engine: How Firms Recognize Fixed-Fee Revenue at the Right Moment — and Move Money Out of Trust Only When It's Actually Earned (2026 Feature Spotlight)

Flat fees look simple until you have to answer three questions at once: when did we earn it, when may we take it out of trust, and did this matter actually make money at that price? Most systems handle flat fees as a single invoice line and leave the other two questions to a spreadsheet. Here's how LawAccounting's milestone-based fixed-fee engine ties phase completion to revenue recognition, to a trust-to-operating transfer, and to per-matter margin — in one chain of records.