Time tracking software for lawyers and attorneys

Easy-to-use time tracking software for law firms, lawyers and attorneys. Track billable hours, project, cost, and tasks. See billable hours and cost by clients and projects. 

Attorney Time Tracking

What's the purpose of attorney time tracking?

Labor cost is the biggest direct cost for any law firm. So it makes sense for lawyers and attorneys to track time spent at work.

Time tracking software gives law firms insights into their processes and people. By tracking time correctly, they get to see how lawyers, paralegal and others spend their time. The software shows how your processes help or hinder the efficiency of your team.

Time tracking serves the most basic need of a law firmbilling clients for the hours worked by attorneys and their assistants. But your law firm can get much more from a time tracking software

Having data on how attorneys, paralegals and other support staff spend their time will help your firm become more efficient, scalable, and predictable. You’ll prevent situations where people must work overtime just to hit deadlines.

With a time tracking software like HiveDesk, your lawyers will not need to spend Friday afternoons trying to remember what they did in the week to fill their timesheets. HiveDesk generates accurate timesheets from the time tracking data.

In fact, a timekeeping software could be the best technology investment for your law firm. It takes 3-5% of a lawyer’s time to fill a timesheet. That’s time they should be spending on billable work. Attorneys may also forget to report some client work on their timesheet. Together, you may be losing up to 10% of your billable time every month.

Compare that to $5/lawyer for HiveDesk and it’s a no-brainer why you should sign up today!

Easy Time Tracking and timesheets for attorneys and lawyers

Is your law firm using manual timesheets? You’re leaving money on the table!

Lawyers and their assistants spend 3-5% of their time on filling up manual timesheets. It’s time you can save with HiveDesk time tracking software. You can also recover an additional 5-7% of billable time your attorneys may forget to put on their timesheets. Together, a time tracking app can help you get up to 10% more revenue every month!

HiveDesk generates accurate timesheets for your client projects. Just create projects for each client and assign lawyers and paralegals to projects. HiveDesk will collect time spent on each project for each person.

You can log into your dashboard at any time to see how much time was spent on each project and how much time each lawyer or assistant has worked on the project. You can generate timesheet reports for each project and employee.

You save time in preparing timesheet & invoice and bill your law firm’s clients accurately with HiveDesk time tracking software.

Employee time tracking software - HiveDesk

Accurate project cost tracking

Your law firm probably has different rates for each attorney. In HiveDesk, you can enter hourly rate for each lawyer in your firm. This makes it super easy for you to track not just time but also the cost incurred in serving your clients. 
Over time, you will develop a good baseline for estimating time and cost for future projects. HiveDesk is not just about tracking time of your attorneys.

Manage client tasks and projects for your law firm​

HiveDesk is not just a time tracking software for law firms – it’s also a task and project tracking tool. Stay on top of all your tasks and projects in one central place.

You can create as many clients and internal projects as needed. Assign lawyers and support staff to work on different projects to track how much time is spent on each project. Track cost incurred on each project by entering the hourly rate for each lawyers and paralegals in the project.

Create tasks in your projects and assign them to staff. Add due dates to tasks to track their status. Employees mark the tasks as completed as they complete the tasks.
Track time taken to complete each task. See which tasks take more time than planned.

The project and employee sections show the status of each task and which tasks are behind schedule. You can also track tasks on the task calendar in the dashboard.

Excellent solution to maximize law firm profitability

Time entries logged by time tracking software are accurate and effortless. Your attorneys can track time with just one click saving them time they spend on client work. They need not remember anything to track time since the software does it for them. While not a practice management software, HiveDesk can help you maximize your firm’s profitability by recovering up to 10% of work hours every month. Your attorneys will become more productive and your billing will go up just by tracking time automatically.

Invite members to join

Pick who you want to join each and every project

Set default rate

Set your own default rate paid for each member

Team time tracking

Track the time your remote employees spend on projects

Project tracking

Create unlimited projects as needed and add tasks

Try HiveDesk free for 14 days. You don’t need a credit card for the free trial.

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