For debt recovery teams in law firms and collection agencies

Reports that arrive before they are chased.

Fixed-fee monthly reporting and review packs, delivered on the same day every month.

Anonymised executive summary slide from a monthly debt recovery pack, with KPI cards, the month's balance movement and cases awaiting client instructions
From an anonymised sample pack. The figures are invented.
Zero

missed deadlines in monthly legal-sector reporting since July 2023.

Reconciled

Every total is checked against your source data before a pack can be sent.

Fixed fee

Monthly retainers from £1,200. The first consultation is free.

What I do

I take the exports from your case management and finance systems, clean and join them, and turn them into a report your team gets on the same day every month, without anyone rebuilding a spreadsheet by hand.

An anonymised commentary slide with What matters and What needs attention panels

Monthly review packs

An interactive HTML, PDF or PowerPoint pack that explains what changed since last month, why, and what needs a decision.

  • HTML
  • PDF
  • PowerPoint

Clean, reconciled data

Raw exports from your case management and finance systems become the same clean, reconciled dataset every month.

  • Excel
  • Power Query
  • SQL
  • Python

Excel and HTML dashboards

KPIs, trends, exceptions, and client performance in one monthly view, reconciled back to the source figures.

  • Excel
  • HTML
Detail of an anonymised 12-month balance trend chart

Every figure is checked before it reaches you

  1. Reconciled.

    Totals must agree on every slide, with the source data, and with your own backup workbook.

  2. Blocked if wrong.

    If a check fails, the pack can't be sent. I see a clearly marked preview and fix the problem first.

  3. Flagged, not hidden.

    If your case-management system has something wrong, such as a live case showing a zero balance, I list it for your team to correct rather than quietly patching the report.

Example work

An anonymised debt recovery review: the monthly pack a law firm's debt recovery team sends its client. It is built from case management exports, and every figure is checked against the source workbook before it goes out.

Open the demo Opens in a new tab: click through the slides, switch views and hover for exact figures. Best on a laptop or desktop.

Executive summary

Balance, recoveries, new instructions and cases awaiting instructions on one page.

Format
Interactive HTML pack
Workflow
Excel model to reconciled pack
Focus
Movement, blockers, forecast

This sample keeps a live client pack's layout and interactions; the figures are invented, and no client or firm is named.

About me

I started in credit control, chasing aged debt and reporting on it to managers, directors and clients. At one firm I cut a £250,000 aged-debt ledger to £11,000 in six months. In 2023 I joined a law firm's debt recovery team, setting up debtor accounts and running case files.

That's where the reporting started. Since July 2023 I've produced a UK law firm's monthly and quarterly debt recovery reporting, and I haven't missed a deadline.

So I know what the figures mean as well as how to build them: what a month's balance movement is telling you, why cases sit waiting for instructions, and what your client will ask about first. You deal with one person, on a fixed monthly fee, and your pack arrives on the same day every month.

BSc Psychology, University of Kent · AAT Level 4 (Accountancy)

Pricing

Fixed monthly fees, so the cost does not creep up with the hours. The first consultation is free; after that, each retainer is scoped around how often you need reporting, how many data sources are involved, and how much written commentary you want.

Entry

£1,200 per month

  • Single monthly report or dashboard
  • One to two data sources
  • Data preparation and reconciliation

Premium

£2,000+ per month

  • Four or more deliverables
  • High-volume case and client datasets
  • Data joined across several source systems

Every plan includes the three checks on every figure, and delivery on the same day every month.

No VAT is charged: I'm not VAT registered.

Security and compliance

Client data is handled through encrypted Microsoft 365 Business with MFA, full-disk encryption, TLS-secure communications, and UK data centre storage. Midlands Legal BI is ICO registered and holds professional indemnity and cyber insurance.

  • ICO registered
  • Data processing agreement available
  • UK data centres
  • Professional indemnity
  • Cyber insurance
Beresford Salmon

Book a free 30-minute call

I'm Beresford Salmon, based in Nuneaton and working with firms across the Midlands and remotely. Email me with what you report on now and when your next deadline is, and we can see whether I can help.

Or write to beresford.salmon@midlandslegalbi.co.uk