Time Tracking for Attorneys..

Time is money. Tracking, and billing time as an attorney or consultant can be frustrating and costly.

Despite all the technology and software out there, time tracking for attorneys is often done with a timer or by hand. Here’s a typical scenario. An attorney schedules an hour every morning to make phone calls for her cases. She opens a timer in software like QuickBooks or Clio.

As she starts to make her first call, she clicks the timer. Upon hanging up, she clicks it again. Lather, rinse, repeat. Clicking the timer is easy, but constantly toggling the button at the start and end of every little task get in the way of the ebb and flow of work.

In today’s multitasking world, does anyone sit and make phone calls or go through emails for 10 minutes straight? With many of us multitasking, it’s easy to become absorbed in the work that we can forget to do a little thing like clicking the timer.

A lawyer may remember to record the activity later on, but he won’t necessarily remember exactly how much time he spent on it. We don’t want to overcharge clients nor do we want to short ourselves by entering a time less than the actual time spent.

Some lawyers keep track of time by writing it down — a more disruptive process to be sure: Stop task, pick up favorite gold pen (or find one), note activity, do next task. More steps than clicking a mouse or tapping a screen. So what less disruptive time tracking software for lawyers are there?

Enter Chrometa!

“Chrometa is like having your mother standing over you to make sure you do your homework,” Baron writes. “Every time I have the urge to wander the internet, I tend to balk knowing it will be recorded by Chrometa.”

The team at Chrometa created this time tracking software for lawyers so they can work without spending any time turning their tracked time into invoices. Furthermore, Chrometa does not capture keystrokes or content for the sake of protecting client and attorney confidentiality.