Six tools became one matter file — and billing disputes nearly vanished.

The before — the matter lived in six places.

For a firm that bills by the tenth of an hour, scattered data is a direct revenue leak. "A single matter touched Clio, the time tracker, the trust ledger, Asana, our document tool, and email," says Jonas Park, Managing Partner. "Every invoice was an act of archaeology. We were leaving time on the table because reconstructing it across six tools wasn't worth the hour it took."

Worse, when a client questioned a bill, defending it meant assembling evidence from systems that didn't reference each other. Some disputes were simply written off because proving the work cost more than the line item.

The switch — matters first, money close behind.

Praxis moved active matters and contacts first, then time tracking and trust accounting. The firm kept its old systems read-only for a quarter as a safety net — and never needed them.

"I'm not a software person, and neither is my partner," Park says. "Mewayz is the first business app we've agreed on in twenty years. That alone was worth the price. The savings were almost incidental."

What got replaced

The unlock — every dollar traces to the work.

With time, tasks, documents, and the trust ledger all hanging off one matter, the invoice writes its own evidence:

• Every billed entry links to the task, document, or message that produced it
• Trust accounting reconciles against the same ledger the matter uses
• A disputed line resolves in minutes — the proof is one click from the charge
• Captured time rose because logging it stopped being a separate chore

The new normal — partners practicing, not reconciling.

"The quiet change is that I bill on Friday afternoon now instead of dreading it all weekend," Park says. "The invoices are defensible, the time is captured, and the two of us stopped arguing about software. That's the most billable thing that's happened to this firm in years."