Transform Hiring at Your Law Firm with Detailed Time Reports

Your law firm can hire better talent without spending more money on salaries.?

How??

What’s the key to pinpointing the best possible candidates within your budget??

It’s simple — to make informed decisions on future hires, you need data on your current staff.

That’s where time tracking comes in.??

Keep reading to learn how you can leverage accurate time logs to make the smartest hiring choices every single time!?

*This article is the abridged, adapted version of the blog post originally published at the Clockify blog: https://clockify.me/blog/business/detailed-reports-improve-legal-hiring/?

Recognize crucial vacancies

Some vacancies are more urgent than others because the workload associated with them is overwhelming your existing staff.?

For instance, if you have too few paralegals, your associates are likely swamped with research and administrative tasks.?

Alternatively, a partner might need a new associate to handle a growing number of cases in a specific niche.?

To know precisely who to hire next, you need a clear overview of your staff’s daily workload. ???

Time trackers can help by:

1. Recording your employees’ time spent on each task,
2. Generating visual reports automatically, and
3. Showing clearly who’s overworked and which vacancies are a priority.

Determine an acceptable offer

With the ideal salary range, you’ll attract solid talent without putting a strain on your firm’s finances. ??

To determine the salaries you can afford to offer, you need an accurate view of your billables.?

With a time tracker like Clockify, you can track everyone’s billable hours in real time. ?

All you have to do is set your staff’s and clients’ hourly rates.?

Based on this information and tracked hours, Clockify automatically calculates the profitability of each client and employee — and generates a visual report.?

Depending on the work your new hires will be doing, you’ll know the salaries you can offer them without jeopardizing your bottom line.?

Minimize turnover costs

According to financial analyst Brooke Lively, replacing an attorney who earns $75,000 per year can cost up to $230,000. ??

Besides actual money, turnover can cost you time and energy because you have to select, onboard, and train a new associate.?

That’s why minimizing turnover is crucial.?

Besides hiring for culture fit, you can keep your best people for a long time by providing proper incentives.?

But how do you know who deserves a yearly bonus, and how high it should be? ??

With Clockify’s real-time reports, you can easily:?

1. See who has the most billable hours,?
2. Track who completed tasks quicker than anticipated, and
3. Share reports with the staff to motivate them further.?

Clockify can improve your recruitment at every step — from spotting vacancies and making salary offers to retaining top talent.?

Want to make smarter hiring decisions that are based on real-time employee data??

Try Clockify today ?