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◆ Compliance you can trust
Handling client money is the part of practice you can't get wrong. ORLA includes a full LPUL-designed trust accounting module — so receipts, reconciliations and examiner reports come from the same platform that runs the rest of your firm, with trust kept strictly separate from office.
An append-only journal — entries can't be edited or deleted, only reversed with a corresponding entry. A clean, defensible audit trail.
Trust bank, cash book and the total of all client ledgers reconciled and cross-checked, with any variance flagged — reconcile monthly with confidence.
Sequential, gap-free trust receipts, with controlled money recorded separately from general trust money.
A client's trust ledger can't go into deficit — the software blocks any transaction that would overdraw the account.
Client trust statements, receipts and CSV exports produced on demand — everything an external examiner needs, in the format they expect.
Generate ABA files to upload trust payments to your bank as a batch — no re-keying, fewer errors.
Yes — a full LPUL trust module: an immutable trust ledger, three-way reconciliation, trust receipts and controlled money, examiner-ready statements and CSV exports, and ABA payment batches, with trust funds kept strictly separate from office funds.
It's built to the Legal Profession Uniform Law and Uniform General Rules, with the core safeguards enforced in software: an append-only journal, no-overdraw protection, gap-free receipt and transaction numbering, and a clear trust-vs-office separation. The module itself is completing independent examination before firms run live client money on it. Your firm's own trust records must still be examined by an external examiner — ORLA produces the statements and exports they need.
It checks that the trust bank balance, the trust cash book and the total of all client trust ledgers agree at a point in time. ORLA performs this and flags any variance so you can reconcile monthly as required.
Yes — client trust statements and receipts on demand, plus examiner-ready CSV files and statements for an external examiner to review efficiently.
Yes — controlled money is recorded separately from general trust money, and ORLA generates ABA files so trust payments can be uploaded to your bank as a batch.
See it alongside matters, billing and client care — on a quick, no-pressure walkthrough.
