The fee note is out, the mandate is closed
You advised and invoiced. Four months later the fee note is still open, and chasing it by phone is not a billable service.
Licensed in Austria · Registered in Germany
Unpaid fee notes and client claims, recovered for you.
You have advised, represented and invoiced, and the money still does not arrive. incaseof.law collects unpaid fee notes and your clients’ claims as a state-licensed debt collection institute. 100% of the claim goes to you or your client, the mandate stays with you.
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Day-to-day in the firm
Collection costs lawyer hours instead of bringing money in.
Dunning and collection are a side task, not core business. They tie up hours that are rarely billable at cost, and they crowd out exactly the mandate work you are there for.
Dunning runs eat up your billable time
Monitoring deadlines, writing to debtors, negotiating instalments. Every hour of collection is an hour less for the actual mandate.
Your client is waiting for their money
Your client has an open claim, but your firm has no capacity to collect hundreds of similar small or high-volume receivables itself.
Our partnerships
Freelancers, SMEs, property managers, trades and law firms hand over their outstanding claims to us.
We support our partners in debt collection, from single outstanding invoices through to direct integrations into existing systems via API.
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In brief
How do law firms work with a debt collection institute?
Law firms hand over two kinds of claims to incaseof.law: their own unpaid fee notes and the claims of their clients. In 2026 incaseof.law is a debt collection institute licensed in Austria and registered in Germany and run by lawyers. The law firm keeps the client relationship while the collection is outsourced, and 100% of the claim goes to the firm or its client.
incaseof.law, a debt collection institute licensed in Austria and registered in Germany, as of 2026.
How the handover works
How you hand over unpaid invoices to incaseof.law
You hand over your fee note or your client’s claim, incaseof.law takes over the rest as a licensed debt collection institute. You can follow how debt collection works transparently, and you can submit a claim online and start within minutes.
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Hand over the claim
Upload the unpaid fee note digitally or hand over client claims in bulk, by upload or through the interface to your case management software. In a few minutes.
In about 3 minutes
Automatic analysis
Amount4,200 €
Overdue120 days
Debtoridentified
2
We take over the collection
As a licensed debt collection institute, we call on the debtor to pay, out of court and, if needed, in court via electronic legal communication.
Checked in seconds
Consistent escalation
Send
Payment requestdelivered
1st reminderdelivered
Final reminderdelivered
3
Payout to you or your client
After a successful collection we pay out, 100% of the claim, without deductions. Client claims stay clearly allocated and go to the law firm or directly to the client.
Paid out in full
€
Debtor
Incoming payment
Your account+4,200 €
An example from practice
One unpaid fee note, enforced stage by stage.
This is how a typical law firm case runs at incaseof.law: a fee note for a closed mandate, unpaid for months. You keep no deadlines in view, we steer every step through to payout.
- Type of claim: an unpaid fee note of 4,200 euros for a closed advisory mandate.
- Debtor: a corporate client, 120 days in default despite two reminders of your own.
- Typical outcome: the out-of-court demand is enough, the amount goes to the law firm in full.
For your clients’ claims the same route applies, the payout then goes to the client. How much capital unpaid invoices tie up is shown by the incaseof.law study on tied-up capital (2026, an analysis of 149,916 companies).
Start debt collectionFee note #2043
Overdue for 120 days · corporate client
4,200.00 €
Out-of-court demandOptional: Letter from the partner law firm with a payment deadline
Active
Court titleAccelerated via electronic legal communication
If needed
EnforcementFinal step, fully steered by us
If needed
Payout to the law firm
100% of the claim, without deductions
+4,200.00 €
Illustrative example. Aggregated network data, as of 2026.
Two routes, one handover
Two kinds of claims, cleanly separated.
Whether it is your own fee notes or your clients’ claims, incaseof.law handles both, with clear allocation and separate payout.
Scenario A
Your own fee notes
Unpaid fee invoices of your law firm, against corporate or private clients.
- You hand over the fee note like any other open claim.
- 100% of the principal claim goes to your law firm, without deductions.
- The default costs are borne by the client in default, not by your law firm.
Scenario B
Your clients’ claims
Small and high-volume claims of your clients, collected on behalf of the law firm.
- You hand over in bulk, including hundreds of similar claims.
- Every claim stays clearly allocated to its client, and the payout goes to them.
- The law firm remains the point of contact, incaseof.law works in the background.
For client claims, every collected payment is documented individually and allocated to the respective client, so that the separation of third-party funds stays traceable. Payment is made to the client or through the account the law firm designates for this.
Handover
Hand over claims straight from your accounting or case management software
Connect accounting, ERP or your case management system in a few clicks. Submit fee notes and client claims by upload, REST API or a direct integration into your system, without exports and without detours.
- Fully automated connection to accounting, ERP and case management software
- Compatible with common systems, from BMD to SAP and Oracle
- Encrypted, GDPR-compliant transfer with a data processing agreement in place
Do you need a deep connection by interface directly to your system? That is handled by the incaseof.law enterprise solution.
Connect accounting
Microsoft Business Central
SAP
sevDesk
Odoo
+ 25 more integrations
Handover in day-to-day practice
What stays with the firm, what does incaseof.law take over?
The handover touches your day-to-day practice at five points. Here is step by step what you do, what incaseof.law takes over and where the money ends up.
Your firm
Case M-2026-014Case M-2026-031Fee note H-2026-08
incaseof.law takes over
DemandCourt titleEnforcement
Your client gets paid
Claim recovered+ 5,400 €
Paid out to your client100%
Illustrative example, no real client data. As of August 2026.
| Step | Your firm | incaseof.law |
|---|---|---|
| 1Handover | Hand over the fee note or client claim digitally, by upload or through the interface to your practice management software. In around 3 minutes. | Automatic analysis of the claim: amount, due date and debtor are checked. |
| 2Debtor contact | No reminder runs of your own any more, no deadline monitoring, no follow-up calls. | Demand for payment, reminder and final notice, out of court and, if necessary, in court through the Austrian electronic legal communication system. |
| 3Status | Status visible in the portal at any time. The firm stays its client's point of contact and can answer questions. | Deadlines and escalation run through incaseof.law, in the background. |
| 4Allocation | Every claim stays allocated to its client. | Every payment recovered is documented individually and allocated to the respective client. |
| 5Settlement | 100% of the principal claim, to the firm or directly to the client. | No deduction from the principal claim, no success commission. The default costs are borne by the debtor in default. |
Technically the handover runs by upload, REST API or a direct connection to your system. For a single outstanding fee note you can hand over a claim online right away; for a deep connection to your practice system there is the enterprise solution from incaseof.law.
Cost
100% of the claim for you or your client
The principal claim belongs 100% to you or your client. incaseof.law keeps no share and charges no success commission on the principal claim. The costs arising from the default are borne by the debtor in default, not by the law firm. What this means for a specific amount is shown by the overview of debt collection costs.
- Principal claim: 100% to the firm or to the client, with no success commission and no deduction.
- Default costs: borne by the debtor in default, not by the firm and not by its client.
- Engagement: under the terms, no minimum volume. No costs from incaseof.law, even if the debtor doesn't pay. Court fees and, in Austria, MANZ transmission fees only arise once you approve court proceedings. A single outstanding fee note is enough.
- Scope: from the single fee note to high-volume small and mass claims of your clients.
Where recovery in Austria differs from Germany is shown by the comparison receivables management in Austria and Germany. What happens on the debtor's side once a collection claim goes unpaid is covered in what happens if I don't pay a debt collection claim.
Costs and terms, as of August 2026
Handing over claims for a different setting? incaseof.law also offers debt collection for SMEs, for freelancers and for property managers, with an overview in the use case list. Related topics: customer not paying and unpaid invoice.
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incaseof.law is a debt collection institute licensed in Austria and registered in Germany. You hand over your open claim digitally, we collect the money.
Law
Licence and registration
Licensed in Austria and registered in the German Legal Services Register. The terms set out the scope and conditions of an engagement.
Money
100% of the claim for you
We keep no share of your principal claim. What your debtor owes belongs, after a successful collection, entirely in the right account.
Peace of mind
Digital, the mandate stays with you
Hand over the claim, we take over the rest. The entire collection runs through the connector and electronic legal communication, in the background.
Frequently asked
What law firms ask us.
From outsourcing and the separation of third-party funds through to the client relationship. Your question is not here? We answer personally, professional to professional.
Contact usYes. Law firms can hand over both their own fee claims and their clients’ claims to a licensed debt collection institute. For client claims, the client’s consent is required. The legal advice and the client relationship stay with the law firm, incaseof.law takes over the collection.
For client claims, every collected payment is cleanly allocated to the respective client and paid out to them or through the account the law firm designates for this. incaseof.law documents every claim individually, so the allocation stays traceable at all times.
The principal claim goes 100% to the client, without deductions. The law firm remains the point of contact for its client and can offer the collection as a service, without tying up its own capacity for dunning runs and collection.
Yes. The law firm remains the point of contact for its clients. incaseof.law takes over debtor communication, dunning runs and collection in the background and does not step into the law firm’s place towards the client.
The operational collection is handed over to incaseof.law as a licensed debt collection institute, the legal advice stays with the law firm. Questions on the specific arrangement in an individual case are best clarified directly with your insurer.
The firm’s own claims such as unpaid fee notes, and claims that the firm’s clients hold against their debtors, from single amounts through to high-volume small and mass claims.
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From the guide
Knowledge for law firms and legal professionals.
Receivables management: a comparison of Austria & Germany
Regulatory frameworks and cost structures in receivables management: a comparison of Austria and Germany.
Read more
How does debt collection work in Austria?
From out-of-court demand letters to digital enforcement. How to secure your liquidity.
Read more
What happens if a debt collection claim is not paid?
Consequences, deadlines and options for action, and why ignoring a claim is the worst choice.
Read moreSources and legal basis
- § 1333 ABGB, default interest
- Regulation on the maximum fees payable to debt collection institutes, BGBl. no. 141/1996
- § 118 GewO 1994, debt collection institutes
- Legal services register, Federal Office of Justice, reg. no. 2024 0000 8388
- GISA, the Austrian trade licence register, GISA 32140156
- WKO, Association of Commercial Service Providers
Further reading
What law firms need next
The route to handover, the cost question and the technical connection, each in depth. For mandates that do not fit this pattern, the hub leads to the other sectors and roles.
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