Legal Time Tracking for Law Firms
Capture every billable minute, track time by client and matter, support accurate client billing, and maintain detailed time documentation with time tracking built specifically for legal professionals.
The Legal Billing Challenge
Are You Losing Billable Hours Every Day?
Law firms lose 10-20% of billable time due to poor time tracking habits, forgotten entries, and administrative overhead.
- Lost Billable Hours
Attorneys forget to log time, underestimate hours worked, or delay entries until memory fades. Small increments add up to significant revenue loss over time.
- No Visibility Into Where Time Goes
Without accurate time data, you can't see how hours are distributed until it's too late. Which practice areas are absorbing the most time? Which matters are draining resources?
- Compliance Documentation Gaps
Client billing disputes, audits, and ethical requirements demand detailed time records. Manual logs lack the detail and verification needed for compliance.
The Solution
Purpose-Built for Legal Practice
WorkComposer captures every billable minute automatically, eliminates time entry guesswork, and provides the documentation law firms need.
- Automatic Billable Hours Capture
- Stop losing billable time. WorkComposer automatically tracks every minute spent on client work, eliminating forgotten entries and underreported hours. Time is captured down to the minute, so you have the raw detail to bill against your firm's standards.
- Time by Client, Matter, and Task
- Track time by client, matter, and task, and roll it up into billable amounts using per-attorney and per-matter rates. See where the hours are going across your practice areas so you can spot which matters are consuming the most time.
- Detailed Client Billing Reports
- Generate comprehensive billing reports with time breakdowns, task descriptions, and optional work verification. Export to CSV, XLSX, or PDF to import into your legal billing software, or give clients transparent proof of work performed.
- Compliance Documentation
- Maintain detailed, verifiable records for ethical compliance, client billing disputes, and audit requirements. Screenshots provide contemporaneous documentation of work performed when needed.
- Partner & Associate Productivity
- See tracked hours per attorney across matters. To separate billable from non-billable work, set up distinct projects for each and compare the reported hours — giving you utilization and productivity trends drawn from real data to set realistic billable-hour targets.
- Multi-Matter Time Allocation
- Track time across multiple clients and matters simultaneously. Switch between cases seamlessly and allocate time accurately. Perfect for attorneys juggling multiple matters throughout the day.
What Firms Gain
How WorkComposer Helps Law Firms
- ↑Recover Lost Billable Time
- Automatic tracking captures time that slips past manual entry — short calls, quick reviews, small tasks — so more of the work attorneys already do turns into billable hours.
- ↓Less Time on Time Entry
- Skip end-of-day time reconstruction. Automatic tracking means attorneys spend less time on administrative logging and more on billable client work.
- ↑Clearer View of Where Time Goes
- See which matters consume the most hours, adjust staffing, and make data-driven decisions about which cases to take on — using the raw time data across your practice.
- ↓Fewer Billing Disputes
- Detailed time records and optional work verification answer client questions about billing accuracy before they escalate, supporting collections and reducing write-offs.
Real-World Scenarios
How Law Firms Use WorkComposer
- Mid-Size Firms
When partners suspect billable time is slipping away — attorneys forgetting to log hours or underestimating time on matters — automatic tracking captures the work as it happens, recovering time that manual entry misses and cutting the administrative load.
- Litigation Boutiques
Complex litigation demands detailed, defensible time records. Matter-level tracking with task-specific breakdowns, plus optional screenshot documentation, gives high-stakes matters the contemporaneous detail that stands up when a client questions an invoice.
- Corporate Legal Departments
In-house teams need to show how legal hours are spent. Tracking time by business unit and matter type gives visibility into where the work goes — useful for justifying headcount, demonstrating value, and building internal chargeback on accurate data.
Security & Compliance
Meet Ethical and Confidentiality Requirements
Client confidentiality and attorney-client privilege are protected with enterprise-grade security and compliance features.
- Attorney-Client Privilege Protection
All data is encrypted with AES-256 encryption. Screenshots can be disabled or blurred to protect privileged communications and confidential client information.
- Ethics Compliance Documentation
Maintain contemporaneous time records as required by ethical rules. Detailed documentation supports billing transparency and dispute resolution.
- Secure External Storage Options
Store time records and screenshots in your own secure infrastructure (AWS or on-premise) to meet firm security policies and client data residency requirements.
Frequently Asked Questions
All data is encrypted and access-controlled. Screenshots can be disabled entirely or set to blur mode to protect privileged communications. You control exactly what is captured and who can view it, ensuring compliance with confidentiality requirements.
Yes. Attorneys can quickly switch between clients and matters throughout the day. Time is automatically allocated to the active matter. This is perfect for firms where attorneys juggle multiple cases simultaneously.
WorkComposer exports time data as CSV, XLSX, or PDF, which you can import into your legal billing software. For a direct connection, our public API lets you build a custom integration with your practice management system.
Most attorneys prefer automatic tracking because it eliminates end-of-day time reconstruction. They get credit for all their work without the administrative burden of manual time entry. The software runs silently in the background.
Create separate projects for administrative tasks, CLE, business development, and other non-billable activities. Track all time to understand true utilization rates and identify opportunities to reduce non-billable overhead.
WorkComposer tracks time down to the minute rather than applying billing-increment rounding itself. You export the precise time data as CSV, XLSX, or PDF and apply your firm's rounding rules — 6-minute (0.1 hour), 10-minute, 15-minute, or whatever your client agreements specify — in your billing software.
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