Attorney Time Tracking Software
Track billable hours manually or automatically. Switch between clients and cases without interrupting work.
- Accurately log work time
- Automatically calculate labor costs
- Issue invoices
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Attorney Time Tracking Software for Successful Law Firms
Why Attorneys Choose actiTIME
Precise Time Tracking
Effortlessly record your hours across various platforms, ensuring you capture billable time even when you're not at your desk.
Unified Data Management
Keep all elements of your legal practice organized in a single location for easy access and management.
Adjustable Workflows
Design tailored processes for clients, cases, and tasks that fit your unique operational requirements.
Custom Fields
Implement UTBMS coding or categorize by practice areas to effectively organize tasks according to activities or legal specialties.
Tracking Billable and Non-Billable Activities
Define and monitor both billable and non-billable tasks, calculating revenue potential while comparing it to project expenses.
Invoicing Capabilities
Assign hourly rates for team members to ensure accurate billing and make it simple to create invoices using pre-designed templates.
How actiTIME Helps Law Firms Increase Billing Accuracy
Easily reconstruct your daily time expenditures, no matter how many cases you work on.
Straightforward Timesheets
- Add tasks, manage parameters for each task, and include comments on time entries.
- Record time for big and small tasks to ensure that every aspect of your work is documented.
Cost Calculation and Smarter Estimates
- Review how project time, cost, and billing budgets are being spent.
- Use historical data to cleverly allocate resources and predict project outcomes.
Detailed Reports and Summaries
- Gain insights into your team’s productivity and client profitability by grouping data by employees, date ranges, clients, and cases.
- Provide clients with transparent reports detailing what you’ve worked on and the effort invested in each task.
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See What Customers Say About actiTIME
I felt that it would be an excellent program for a solo practitioner lawyer. Your customer support people were wonderful. I was using the free version. I was very impressed that they went the extra mile to help me when there was nothing in it for them.
User-friendly and easy to master. Reporting is quite flexible and has a few choices to choose from. Recommended to a company that is looking for a tool for monitoring project costing by man-hour as a start.
This application has different tools that seek to facilitate the daily work within the company. It is a perfect way to manage the time spent on different tasks and projects.
actiTIME provides managers with full insight into the workload of projects so that they can better allocate human resources to meet business requirements. Accounting Managers can use actiTIME to streamline payroll processing and to ensure that invoiced time is not missed when billing customers.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Attorney time tracking is crucial for several reasons:
- It ensures that all billable minutes are captured, preventing underbilling and minimizing disputes with clients by providing clarity on how time was spent.
- By analyzing time data, firms can identify inefficiencies, optimize processes, and manage resources more effectively.
- Time tracking offers valuable insights that inform strategic decisions, such as which cases to take and how to allocate resources.
- Firms can assess how much time staff spend on billable versus non-billable tasks, helping to balance workloads.
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Attorneys face several significant challenges when it comes to tracking time without a software solution:
- When you have no tool to record time when working on the go, you can forget specific tasks or inaccurately report the time spent on various activities.
- Quick tasks, such as brief phone calls or emails, are often overlooked in fully manual tracking.
- When time entries lack detail (comments), it can lead to misunderstandings or disputes with clients regarding the services rendered.
- Manual timesheet analysis increases the administrative workload for law firms, diverting time away from billable work and client service.
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To enhance time tracking effectiveness, law firms should implement the following best practices:
- Pick a time tracking tool with a mobile app, a timer, and a browser extension to log time as it occurs, reducing the risk of forgetting entries.
- Utilize features that allow you to categorize tasks and add detailed descriptions easily, ensuring clarity and specificity in time entries.
- Use reporting functionalities and integrations to reduce the administrative burden when it comes to converting tracked time into invoices or analyzing employee productivity.
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In addition to billable hours, lawyers track non-billable hours to analyze overall firm efficiency and costs. Non-billable tasks may include administrative work, marketing, training, and internal meetings. This analysis helps firms understand their overall costs and profitability.
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Effective legal time-tracking software should include:
- Easy switching between different cases and tasks.
- Time tracking from any device to ensure no billable hours are missed.
- Easy invoicing based on tracked time entries to reduce administrative work.
- Custom hourly rates for specific clients, matters, or activity types.
- Insights into billable vs. non-billable hours, matter profitability, and attorney productivity.
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