Time Recording System
Tracking and billing time to clients is an important and inevitable part of working in a law firm. Partners, associates, paralegals, litigation support staff and other timekeepers bill their time in 6 minute increments, depending on firm policy and client directives. If you fail to bill your time,
the practice cannot invoice the client and the practice does not get paid. Thus, timekeeping is a function vital to law firm success.
Time is Money
As legal fees increase, clients have become more cost-conscious and tech-savvy.
Consequently, clients are examining legal bills more closely.
Growing trends towards e-billing (electronic invoices) has subjected legal invoices to increased scrutiny, negotiation and dispute.
- Whether you are new to billing time or a veteran time-keeper, XpertLegal time recording will help you create prompt, accurate and precise time entries.
- Using XpertLegal time recording software is easy, simply click start when you begin working on a task and stop when you're finished to store a time sheet entry. Later create full time sheet reports with a breakdown of what you did and when.
Detailed Billing Descriptions
Detailed task descriptions are a fundamental component of a well-drafted time recording. It is important that the description of your efforts contain sufficient detail to allow the reviewer to gauge the nature and merit of the task.
Record Time Promptly
Recording your time immediately after you complete a task is the best way to ensure accuracy. Generating a document will automatically prompt the time recording window spontaneously.
XpertLegal ensures practicality to enter each task into your timekeeping software the moment you complete it. Therefore developing a system for recording time that encourages prompt time keeping. Some timekeepers dictate each task immediately after they’ve performed it and have it transcribed at the end of the day. You won’t need to keep a time notebook, recording each task by hand and then entering it (or having a secretary enter it) at the end of the day, week or billing period.
Time Recording Features Include:
- Start and stop timing with the push of a button
- Manually enter work done away from the computer for a comprehensive work overview
- Time recording can be started automatically when generating a document
- Save, print, and email timesheets and reports
- Runs in the background without interfering with your normal day to day tasks
- Easy to use interface makes timing your tasks a breeze
- One-click time entry
- Simultaneously running timers
- Record billable and non-billable time
- Enter multiple time entries on one screen
- Track internal, non-client time separately
- Read daily and weekly time summaries
- Customize activity types & work code lists
- Attach notes to time recordings, even images and entire files.
- Notification popup window regularly reminds you that a time recording is in process and how much time has been logged so far.