Finch, a leading Management Services Organization (MSO), is your comprehensive back office support and growth partner. We enable you to prioritize billable hours, expand your practice, and maintain a technical edge — without selling your firm or ceding professional control.
Most general practice partners we speak with share the same four concerns. Finch was built to answer all of them.
Bigger firms outspend you 5–10× on intake. You lose cases before the call ever comes in.
No pricing leverage with vendors, and fewer attorneys to distribute costs across.
Expansion means growing your back office as much as it means increasing your case load.
Years of value locked inside the firm — with no path to liquidity short of selling.
A comprehensive back office and growth platform — built around the firm you already run.
Day 1 custom marketing and intake support — Big Law caliber client acquisition at your fingertips.
Group rate procurement with vendors and MSO network benefits, driving down your firm's overhead costs.
Your back office scales with your case load automatically — you focus on billable hours, and we handle everything else.
Access liquidity while professional control, client relationships, and the firm's identity stay with you.
Straight answers to the questions that come up in nearly every conversation we have with firm owners.
An MSO is a separate business that owns and operates the non-legal side of a law firm — billing, technology, marketing, procurement, HR, and administration. The law firm continues to exist as its own entity, owned by licensed attorneys, and the two are connected by a long-term services agreement. The structure has been common in medicine and dentistry for decades and has moved into legal services more recently.
Yes, entirely. Your firm remains a separate, attorney-owned entity. What Finch acquires is the administrative and business infrastructure — the vendor contracts, the systems, the back office functions — along with the right to service your practice going forward. You are not selling your practice, your client list, or your license.
Yes. Your name, your letterhead, your reputation in the community, and the way your firm presents itself to clients stay exactly as they are. Finch operates behind the scenes. We have no interest in consolidating firms under a single brand — the local identity you have built is one of the reasons your practice works.
You do, without exception. Case selection, legal strategy, staffing decisions on individual matters, settlement posture, and every other exercise of professional judgment stay with the firm's attorneys. Finch does not practice law, does not employ attorneys to practice law, and has no voice in the substance of your work.
Your attorneys and personnel stay with your firm. Non-attorney staff will transition to Finch for payroll and access to better benefits and a real HR function — but their tasking remains your prerogative. Day to day, your team does the same work with the same people, in the same location. The main change is that the associated administrative tasks stop being your problem.
We are building long-term, trust-based partnerships, and are direct about every aspect of our structure. You retain the right to terminate the relationship subject to customary notice and cure provisions — we focus on delivering value so the thought never crosses your mind. We walk through the specifics of the services agreement early in diligence, and can provide a sample term sheet upon request.
It is a multiple of your firm's revenue, determined by firm size, profitability, practice mix, client concentration, and growth trajectory. We will provide an indicative range early in our conversations, and a concrete number following diligence.
Yes. We are taking on the operational infrastructure of the whole practice, not a portion of it, and that only works when every partner is aligned. We are joining your team to enable growth, administrative and back-office excellence, and your continued delivery of the best client experience possible. Before anything moves forward, we need all partners oriented on the same ultimate goal.
We have structured the Practice Affiliation Fee to be as efficient for our partners as possible — taxed at long-term capital gains rates rather than ordinary income. At current federal rates, that distinction is a meaningful difference in what you actually keep.
The precise structure depends on your firm's entity type, ownership makeup, and jurisdiction, and we walk through those mechanics in depth during our initial conversations. We work alongside your CPA throughout the process and encourage you to have your own tax advisor confirm the treatment for your specific circumstances.
Yes. Attorney base compensation is agreed to before the start of each fiscal year through direct, frank conversation between the firm's partners and Finch leadership. It is not capped, and it is not set unilaterally.
Some MSOs position their upfront payment as a predictable advance against unpredictable future profit distributions. We do not structure it that way. Keeping incentives aligned between the firm's partners and Finch is our highest priority — we are working toward the same outcome you are: a larger, more efficient, more profitable practice. The upside belongs to the attorneys who generate it, and you hold more of it than we do.
The MSO structure is built specifically to respect the prohibitions on fee-sharing with non-lawyers, non-lawyer ownership of law firms, and interference with professional judgment. Because those rules vary by state, the analysis is jurisdiction-specific, and we structure each engagement with counsel experienced in this area. We encourage every firm we speak with to have its own ethics counsel review the arrangement independently.
Your engagement with clients does not change — same firm, same attorneys, same representation. Finch does not communicate with your clients and holds no authority over case selection, legal strategy, or work product. Back-office arrangements rarely trigger disclosure obligations, though requirements vary by jurisdiction — we confirm the position with local ethics counsel before closing.
Client files remain the property of the law firm and stay under attorney control. Where Finch personnel or systems touch client information incidentally — through billing or document management, for instance — access is governed by confidentiality obligations and access controls built to support your ethical duties, not to work around them.
Initial conversation to closing typically spans 90–120 days. The sequence runs through an introductory call, an indication of terms, financial and operational diligence, and then definitive documentation. The pace depends mostly on how quickly we can access diligence materials and how many decision-makers need to reach agreement. We understand the importance of time in the legal profession, and make every effort to be as efficient with yours as possible.
Marketing and intake support come online early, because that is where firms feel the gap most acutely. Vendor consolidation and procurement savings follow. Deeper back office integration — billing systems, technology, reporting — happens over the first several months rather than all at once. Our sequencing revolves around a commitment to never disrupt the work or operations of your practice. We implement the most value-additive functions first, and save the longer-horizon infrastructure work for last.
Nothing to prepare. The first call is a conversation, not a diligence exercise — we walk through your practice, where you want to take it, and whether we are the right partner to get you there. The firms that get the most from these conversations tend to share a few things: they want to grow, they want to serve their clients and their people better, and they want their attorneys spending time on law rather than logistics. If that sounds like your firm, the rest is our job.
These answers describe how Finch partnerships are generally structured. Specific terms vary by firm and jurisdiction, and every arrangement is governed solely by its definitive agreements. See our Disclosures for more.
A confidential 30-minute call is the only commitment. We'll walk through your firm, your goals, and whether a Finch partnership makes sense.