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The Business Behind the Practice: Accounting, KPIs and Tax Strategies for Attorneys

Your license and your margin both run through your books. Learn to reconcile trust accounts and stay IOLTA-compliant, track the monthly reports and KPIs that actually drive decisions, and claim the proactive tax strategies most firms leave on the table.

2026-08-27 13:00:00

Program Details

2026-08-27 13:00:00

2026-08-27 13:00:00

2h CLE Credits

2026-08-27 13:00:00

Program Details

2026-08-27 13:00:00

Program Details

2026-08-27 13:00:00

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2026-08-27 13:00:00

Course Overview

Your Firm Is a Business Whether or Not You Run It Like One

2026-08-27 13:00:00

Attorneys receive world-class training in the law and almost none in running the business behind it. That gap is where firms lose money quietly: trust accounts, reports nobody reads, tax positions decided too late. This two-hour program is built for the owner’s side of the desk, not the practice of law.

Mishandle client funds and the exposure is disciplinary, not merely financial. Skip IOLTA reconciliation and a shortfall surfaces on someone else’s timeline. Track no KPIs and a bad quarter reads as a bad year, too late to correct. Treat tax as an April task and the planning window has already closed.

You leave with the work product of a firm run as a business. Reconciliation discipline that protects the license. A monthly reporting and KPI set worth reviewing. A proactive tax posture, a workable tech stack, and a financial team behind you. The mindset is the last piece: growth-minded owners measure differently. The value here is judgment — which numbers to act on, and when.

Format

CLE Credit

2h CLE Credits

Level

Intermediate

Length

2

Key topics that will be covered

01
Why Law Firm Accounting Is Different
How trust accounting and IOLTA compliance change the way client funds are received, recorded, and reconciled — because the license, not just the ledger, is exposed.
02
Reports & KPIs
Which monthly reports and KPIs a firm should track, and how to read them as decisions rather than file them as history.
03
Tax Strategy for Law Firms
How to work tax strategy proactively across the year instead of discovering at filing time that the planning window has closed.
04
Systems & Tech Stack
How the systems and technology behind the practice change daily workflow, and what a firm’s stack should be doing for its owner.
05
Building Your Financial Team
How the composition of a firm’s financial team changes who owns the numbers and how quickly an owner can act on them.
06
Mindset
How the mindset that separates growth-minded firms from stagnant ones changes what an owner measures, prioritizes, and delegates.

Program schedule

clock 1:00 pm - 3:10 pm EST

The Business Behind the Practice: Accounting, KPIs and Tax Strategies for Attorneys

Most attorneys receive world-class training in the law — and almost none in running the business behind it. This two-hour webinar closes that gap. Designed specifically for law firm owners, partners, and managing attorneys, the program covers the financial disciplines that protect your license and grow your practice: trust accounting and IOLTA compliance done right, the monthly reports and KPIs every firm should track, proactive tax strategies most firms leave on the table and the systems, team, and mindset that separate growth-minded firms from stagnant ones. Attendees will leave with a practical plan for running their firm like the business it is — presented by Emil Abedian, founding partner and CEO of Counsel CPAs, LLP, a CPA firm serving law firms exclusively across the U.S.

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Emil Abedian

Emil Abedian

Counsel CPAs, LLP

Emil Abedian

Emil Abedian

Counsel CPAs, LLP

Emil Abedian is a Certified Public Accountant and the founding partner and CEO of Counsel CPAs, LLP, a CPA firm that serves law firms exclusively across the United States. He has practiced accounting for twenty years, beginning his career in Sweden before relocating to Los Angeles, and has spent that time learning how law firms actually make and lose money. He built his practice around a gap he kept seeing in the industry: clients were losing billable hours, and no one was handing them the metrics to notice.

Education & Credentials

Abedian earned a Master of Science in Business and Economics, with a concentration in economics, from Uppsala University in Sweden, completing the program in 2006. He is a Certified Public Accountant and leads Counsel CPAs, LLP from the firm's Glendale office.

Recognition & Leadership

He serves as a board member and Chief Financial Officer of the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Los Angeles and of the Mentor Foundation (USA). As chief executive of Counsel CPAs, LLP, he leads a team of CPAs, enrolled agents, and law firm accountants organized around the legal industry rather than around general business services.

Professional Involvement

His professional involvement centers on the law firm niche. Rather than treating legal clients as one vertical among many, he founded a firm dedicated to them, and works with owners on the questions that sit outside the practice of law: what the numbers say, which metrics to watch, and how to act on them. His board and CFO roles with the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Los Angeles and the Mentor Foundation (USA) extend that work into the nonprofit and civic side of the same discipline.

Experience

Twenty years of accounting practice, first in Sweden and then in Los Angeles, sit behind his work with law firm clients. He advises owners, partners, and managing attorneys on the financial and operational side of their firms — recovering billable hours that were quietly leaking away, supplying reporting and metrics owners can act on, and guiding firms through growth decisions with advice rather than after-the-fact bookkeeping.
Emil Abedian

Emil Abedian

Counsel CPAs, LLP

Emil Abedian is a Certified Public Accountant and the founding partner and CEO of Counsel CPAs, LLP, a CPA firm that serves law firms exclusively across the United States. He has practiced accounting for twenty years, beginning his career in Sweden before relocating to Los Angeles, and has spent that time learning how law firms actually make and lose money. He built his practice around a gap he kept seeing in the industry: clients were losing billable hours, and no one was handing them the metrics to notice.

Education & Credentials

Abedian earned a Master of Science in Business and Economics, with a concentration in economics, from Uppsala University in Sweden, completing the program in 2006. He is a Certified Public Accountant and leads Counsel CPAs, LLP from the firm's Glendale office.

Recognition & Leadership

He serves as a board member and Chief Financial Officer of the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Los Angeles and of the Mentor Foundation (USA). As chief executive of Counsel CPAs, LLP, he leads a team of CPAs, enrolled agents, and law firm accountants organized around the legal industry rather than around general business services.

Professional Involvement

His professional involvement centers on the law firm niche. Rather than treating legal clients as one vertical among many, he founded a firm dedicated to them, and works with owners on the questions that sit outside the practice of law: what the numbers say, which metrics to watch, and how to act on them. His board and CFO roles with the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Los Angeles and the Mentor Foundation (USA) extend that work into the nonprofit and civic side of the same discipline.

Experience

Twenty years of accounting practice, first in Sweden and then in Los Angeles, sit behind his work with law firm clients. He advises owners, partners, and managing attorneys on the financial and operational side of their firms — recovering billable hours that were quietly leaking away, supplying reporting and metrics owners can act on, and guiding firms through growth decisions with advice rather than after-the-fact bookkeeping.

Credits by state

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AL2.0
AR2.0
AZ2.0
CA2.0
CO2.0
CT2.0
DC
DE2.0
FL2.0
GA2.0
HI2.0
IA2.0
ID2.0
IL2.0
IN2.0
KS2.0
KY2.0
LA2.0
MA2.0
MD2.0
ME2.0
MI2.0
MN2.0
MO2.4
MS2.0
MT2.0
NC2.0
ND2.0
NE2.0
NH120.0
NJ2.4
NM2.0
NV2.0
NY2.0
OH2.0
OK2.5
OR2.0
PA2.0
RI2.5
SC2.0
SD2.0
TN2.0
TX2.0
UT2.0
VA2.0
VT2.0
WA2.0
WI2.0
WV2.4
WY2.0

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Requirements

The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.  

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