Accountants for UK solicitors and law firms

Frequently asked

Do you only work with solicitors?

Legal-sector work is our primary focus. Solicitors, LLPs, partnerships, sole practitioners, conveyancers, locum solicitors, COLPs and COFAs are the bulk of the book. Other professional-services firms occasionally, but we deliberately stay narrow enough to keep the sector knowledge deep.

Can you complete our SRA Accountant's Report?

Not ourselves. The reporting accountant must hold a current practising certificate from a recognised supervisory body such as the ICAEW, the ACCA or the ICAS, and must be independent of your firm. What we do is connect you with an appropriately qualified independent reporting accountant from our specialist partner network, and help you get your client account records, reconciliations and breach log into a state the report can be built from. The report has to be obtained within six months of your firm's accounting period end, and delivered to the SRA only if it is qualified.

We are an LLP. Do you handle the SA800 partnership return?

Yes, through a firm in our partner network: the per-member allocation, the salaried-member FA 2014 audit, and each partner's personal self-assessment. The LLP accounts filing at Companies House is co-ordinated with the partnership tax return and the personal returns so the picture is consistent across all three filings.

What is the FA 2014 Salaried Member audit?

The Finance Act 2014 introduced rules that deem a member of an LLP as an employee for tax purposes if all three conditions are met: Condition A — disguised salary is at least 80% of total reward; Condition B — limited rights to influence the LLP's affairs; Condition C — capital contribution less than 25% of disguised salary. If all three apply, PAYE runs on drawings. The audit is worth running quarterly because the position can drift as the firm grows.

We are thinking about converting from partnership to LLP. Help?

Yes. The conversion preserves the tax-transparent treatment but adds limited liability for members and a Companies House filing obligation. Most firms benefit; a minority don't (typically very small practices where the admin overhead outweighs the liability protection). The partner firm we match you with models the conversion economics, drafts the partnership agreement updates required, and co-ordinates the Companies House process.

Do you cover solicitors across the whole UK?

Yes. Our partner network covers solicitors and law firms nationally, working remotely with practices from Cornwall to Scotland. Legal-sector accounting is location-independent (SRA Accounts Rules, LLP and partnership tax, and the annual Accountant's Report are the same wherever the firm sits), so firms we work with sit across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland rather than by postcode. Meetings run by video call, with the senior accountant on your file directly reachable.

Do you cover lawyers and barristers?

Yes. Solicitors and law firm partners are the core of the book, and we also cover barristers, legal-sector consultants and conveyancers. The regulatory frame differs (barristers are BSB-regulated and do not hold client money the way solicitors do under the SRA Accounts Rules), so the engagement is scoped to the specific practice type rather than applying a single legal-sector template.

How are your fees structured?

Fixed monthly fees agreed up front, based on firm size and complexity rather than hourly billing on routine work. Sole practitioners and small firms typically start on our Essentials tier, scaling LLPs on Growth, and practice-sale or acquisition work is quoted bespoke under Specialist. You know the fee before you commit, and there is no hourly meter running on day-to-day questions.