LawAccounting vs Xero for Law Firms (2026): Where Generic Cloud Accounting Breaks on Trust, Costs, and Realization

Xero is excellent cloud accounting software. It is also general-purpose software, which means a law firm using it has to reconstruct trust ledgers, advanced client costs, and realization reporting out of parts that were never designed for those jobs. Here is exactly where the seams show — and what breaking on each one actually costs.