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Finding a good accountant is as integral to running a successful law practice as picking the right banking relationship or malpractice insurance provider.

As an associate at most larger law firms, interactions with the firm’s accounting department are often sporadic at best. Most of the time, you never hear from accounting at all. At some point, when you have been fortunate enough to originate a client or two, you will likely be introduced to someone in accounting, who will likely reach out to make sure that outstanding invoices are in the process of being collected, if at all. Making partner doesn’t change things much — your interactions with accounting typically revolve around billing and collections issues. (While collecting money can be a bear, at least you can also take succor in the fact that you are a partner at a large enough firm to have its own internal accounting staff.)