Fractional CFO services

Clear numbers. Confident decisions.

Profectus Consulting provides fractional CFO, accounting, and business leadership built for the contingency-fee model. Forecasting, case cost control, and tax strategy for personal injury firms.

Specialist
Fixed fee
Nationwide
AdvancementMulti-year financial strategy
GrowthRolling cash forecasts & budgeting
FoundationAccurate monthly books
Profectus
(Latin)

Progress through purposeful growth, continuous improvement, and measurable advancement.

The problem

You win a $400,000 verdict last quarter. Payroll is still uncomfortable.

Running a law firm is running a business, and the contingency model makes it a harder business than most. The work happens now. The money shows up in 3-months, if it shows up when you expected it at all.

Revenue lags the work by months or years, so a genuinely profitable firm can still be a cash-poor firm.

Case costs leave the account long before any recovery comes back, and often nobody is tracking them against a budget.

Settlements land in unpredictable lumps, which turns tax planning into an annual surprise instead of a strategy.

A big quarter reads as permission to spend and a slow one feels like a crisis, because there is no baseline to compare either against.

There is no rolling forecast, no cash reserve, and no line of credit in place before the month it is needed.

None of this means the firm is failing. It usually means the firm is being run without a financial function.

Services

A financial function, without a full-time CFO.

Most growing plaintiff firms are stuck between two bad options. A bookkeeper who records what already happened, or a full-time CFO who costs more than the problem. Profectus is the third option: senior financial leadership, engaged at the level your firm actually needs, with progress you can measure quarter over quarter.

Foundation
The roots

Accurate books, on time, every month.

Monthly bookkeeping and reconciliation
Trust and operating account discipline
Case cost tracking by matter
Growth
The trunk

Know what next quarter looks like before it arrives.

Rolling cash forecasts
Case cost approval process
Quarterly review with written summary
Advancement
The canopy

A CFO in the room.

Multi-year business strategy
Owner compensation planning
Monthly strategy call
Fit

We work with a specific kind of firm.

Profectus is not a general bookkeeping practice. The systems, the benchmarks, and the tax approach are built for contingency-fee work. That focus is what makes the advice useful, and it also means we may not be right for everyone.

We're likely a strong fit if:

You run a plaintiff-side personal injury practice

Annual revenue is roughly $500,000 to $10 million

Case costs are meaningful and currently hard to see

You are prepared to change how decisions get made, not just how they get recorded

Need finacial strategies to make profitable business decisions

We're likely not the right fit if:

You need only transactional bookkeeping at the lowest available price

You are below a certain revenue threshold

You are looking for someone to defend positions you have already decided on

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Years of law-firm accounting and finance experience
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E-Book

Seven financial strategies most plaintiff firms never implement.

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Seven financial strategies most plaintiff firms never implement.

A practical guide on cash flow management, case cost financing, tax planning, and four more levers that decide whether a profitable year feels like one.

Start with a conversation.

Thirty minutes, no preparation needed. If we're not the right fit, you'll know by the end of the call.