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4L MANAGED ACCOUNTING LLC, the leading law-firm centric accounting firm, today announced that Laurence Winters joined its ranks as Chief Operating Officer.
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Laurence Winters is an accomplished operations and client success executive with more than 15 years of experience driving growth, transformation, and client engagement in the legal technology and services space. Most recently serving as Chief Client Officer at SurePoint Technologies, Winters led strategic initiatives, built and scaled high-performing teams, and consistently delivered best-in-class client experiences. A recognized thought leader and active voice in the legal industry, Winters serves as Vice Chair of the Association of Legal Administrators Future Readiness Advisory Council and has been featured in Legal Management Magazine, Law.com, and industry podcasts. Winters is known for bringing a people-first approach to leadership and for aligning operational excellence with long-term business strategy.
Winters stated, "I’m thrilled to join 4L as Chief Operating Officer during such an exciting period of momentum and innovation. 4L has built an incredible reputation for combining modern business and accounting practices with legal excellence, and I’m energized by the opportunity to support our talented team of 70 law firm accountants, enhance operational strategies, and help lead 4L into its next stage of growth."
Winters joins 4L Co-Founder & Chief Client Billing Officer, Heather Tang, Chief Accounting Officer, Annette Bennett , and CEO Mike Marget at the helm of 4L. “We are ecstatic to welcome Laurence to 4L. His phenomenal career as an accountant at Rippe & Kingston followed by his leadership roles at SurePoint speak for itself. He is a change agent with a proven track record of driving success through innovation and technology in the legal marketplace. Laurence knows what makes law firms tick,” said Marget. “We believe he will be a transformative leader for 4L, our people, and the law firms we support."
About 4L Managed Accounting, LLC
4L provides managed accounting department support solutions to midsize law firms. Founded by former AmLaw 100 and midsize law firm accounting managers, 4L curated the procedures and best practices employed by the largest firms and repurposed them in a shared service environment for midsize firms. 4L works at the intersection of law and accounting combining unmatched experience and specialized skills.
4L is the entire accounting department or acts as a major part of the accounting department for 108 law firms with 1,619 lawyers. In 2024 4L produced 235,000 client invoices with a face value totaling $795 million; processed payrolls totaling $162 million; handled more than 320,000 accounts payable and trust transactions totaling $814 million; performed more monthly bank reconciliations than you can wag a stick at. For more information on 4L Managed Accounting LLC visit www.4L-law.com.
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Laurence Winters - Chief Operating Officer - 4L Managed Accounting
BERLIN (AP) — European leaders are expected to cement support for Ukraine Monday as it faces Washington’s pressure to swiftly accept a U.S.-brokered peace deal.
After Sunday’s talks in Berlin between U.S. envoys and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian and European officials are set to continue a series of meetings in an effort to secure the continent’s peace and security in the face of an increasingly assertive Russia.
Zelenskyy sat down Sunday with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in the German federal chancellery in the hopes of bringing the nearly four-year war to a close.
Washington has tried for months to navigate the demands of each side as Trump presses for a swift end to Russia’s war and grows increasingly exasperated by delays. The search for possible compromises has run into major obstacles, including control of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, which is mostly occupied by Russian forces.
The U.S. government late Sunday said in a social media post on Witkoff’s account after the five-hour meeting that “a lot of progress was made.”
Earlier in the day, Zelenskyy voiced readiness to drop his country’s bid to join NATO if the U.S. and other Western nations give Kyiv security guarantees similar to those offered to NATO members. But Ukraine continued to reject the U.S. push for ceding territory to Russia.
Putin wants Ukraine to withdraw its forces from the part of the Donetsk region still under its control among the key conditions for peace.
The Russian president also has cast Ukraine’s bid to join NATO as a major threat to Moscow’s security and a reason for launching the full-scale invasion in February 2022. The Kremlin has demanded that Ukraine renounce the bid for alliance membership as part of any prospective peace settlement.
Zelenskyy emphasized that any Western security assurances would need to be legally binding and supported by the U.S. Congress.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who has spearheaded European efforts to support Ukraine alongside French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, said Saturday that “the decades of the ‘Pax Americana’ are largely over for us in Europe and for us in Germany as well.”
“Pax Americana” refers to the U.S.’s postwar dominance as a superpower that has brought relative peace to the globe.
Merz warned that Putin’s aim is “a fundamental change to the borders in Europe, the restoration of the old Soviet Union within its borders.”
“If Ukraine falls, he won’t stop,” Merz warned during a party conference in Munich.
Macron, meanwhile, vowed Sunday on social platform X that “France is, and will remain, at Ukraine’s side to build a robust and lasting peace — one that can guarantee Ukraine’s security and sovereignty, and that of Europe, over the long term.”
Putin has denied plans to attack any European allies.
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Ciobanu reported from Warsaw, Poland.
Steve Witkoff, special envoy of the United States, leaves through a hotel garage for talks between representatives of the U.S. and Ukraine in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz,stands in his office in the chancellory in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Maryam Majd)
Steve Witkoff, special envoy of the United States, arrives for talks between representatives of the U.S. and Ukraine, at the Hotel Adlon, in Berlin, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
Jared Kushner, entrepreneur and former chief adviser to President Donald Trump, arrives for talks between representatives of the U.S. and Ukraine at the Hotel Adlon, in Berlin, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, right, watches Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arriving at the chancellory in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Maryam Majd)
