How Your Firm Runs Is Just As Important As How It Practices
August has partnered with Ramp so law firms can run their finances the same way they're modernizing their practice.
Law firms spend considerable energy modernizing the legal work. Better tools for redlines, structured review, due diligence, and contract playbooks. That part is getting faster.
But ask a managing partner how the firm handles expenses, vendor payments, or month-end close, and the answer is usually some version of spreadsheets, late receipts, and a finance team buried in manual reconciliation.
Firms advise clients on sophisticated financial transactions every day. The irony is that their own financial operations often run on duct tape.
Why We Partnered With Ramp
Ramp is a finance operations platform. It brings corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, vendor management, procurement, travel booking, and automated bookkeeping into a single platform with built-in controls.
Over 50,000 businesses use it. They've saved $10 billion and 27.5 million hours collectively. Their customers save an average of 5% and close their books 3x faster.
We partnered with Ramp because the firms we work with keep telling us the same thing. Operational efficiency matters just as much as legal efficiency. You can have the fastest contract review process in the world, but if your associates are still submitting expenses three weeks late and your COO is manually reconciling vendor invoices, the firm is leaving time and money on the table.
What Ramp Actually Does for a Firm
Expense management that doesn't depend on people remembering
Ramp cards capture transactions in real time. Receipts match automatically. Policy controls are built in, so violations get flagged before they become a problem, not after.
Vendor spend you can actually see
Every subscription, every vendor, every recurring payment across the firm. Visible in one place. No more discovering redundant SaaS licenses six months after someone signed up.
Travel that stays on policy
Associates book travel through Ramp with firm policies built in. No personal cards, no after-the-fact reimbursement cycles, no chasing down receipts from a conference two months ago.
A faster close
Automated bookkeeping means the month-end close stops being a fire drill. Transactions categorize themselves. The finance team reviews instead of rebuilding.
What August Customers Get
If you're an August customer and you sign up for Ramp through our co-branded referral page, you'll receive a $500 bonus once you meet the qualification criteria.
Why This Matters
August exists to help law firms work differently. We started with the legal work itself, building tools for contract review, Playbooks, Tabular Review, and client-facing workspaces. But "how the firm works" doesn't stop at the practice. It includes how the firm runs.
The best firms we work with are rethinking both. This partnership is one more way we can help.
Sign up for Ramp: https://ramp.com/partners/august