Everhour tracks attorney time by task and project, giving legal teams cleaner records for client billing and review.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
| Day | Time In | Break Start | Break End | Break | Time Out | Total |
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The calculator gives you the number — Everhour takes it from there.
One click and you're timing. Start a timer, add an entry, edit the details. This is exactly how it feels in Everhour.
Set a budget, assign rates, and get alerted before you're over.
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A billable hours tracker for attorneys helps you capture time by client, matter, task, date, timekeeper, and rate before the details fade. Legal work often starts in calendar events, tasks, communications, notes, documents, and email, so the tracking workflow needs to follow the work rather than sit apart from it.
The practical goal is a billing record that supports client invoices and internal review. ABA Model Rule 1.5 says the scope of representation and the basis or rate of fees and expenses should be communicated before or within a reasonable time after representation starts, unless the client is regularly represented on the same basis.
A useful attorney time entry identifies the matter, describes the legal service, marks the entry as billable or non-billable, and applies the correct rate. A line such as "Drafted motion outline for Smith acquisition dispute, 1.4 hours, attorney rate, billable" gives the invoice reviewer more to work with than a generic "legal work" entry.
Corporate legal clients may require structured billing data. UTBMS uses task codes, activity codes, and expense codes to classify legal services in electronic invoice submissions. LEDES standards support legal e-billing and related data exchange, including budgeting and timekeeper or rate information between law firms and clients.
Attorney time tracking affects more than the next invoice. Clio's 2025 benchmark reports average law firm utilization at 38%, equal to 3.0 billable hours captured in an average 8-hour workday. The same benchmark reports 88% realization and 93% collection, so lost, vague, or written-down time changes revenue analysis.
Non-billable entries still deserve a place in the system. Tracking non-billable time on contingency or flat-fee matters helps evaluate matter profitability and staffing. It also separates client-chargeable work from administrative time, which keeps invoices cleaner and gives firm leaders a clearer view of where attorney effort goes.
A simple tracker is enough when you need to reconstruct a small set of matter entries, prepare a one-time invoice, or review a week before billing. It works best when the attorney, matter, rate, date, description, and billable status are already clear.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when multiple attorneys enter time, partners approve billing, clients require structured codes, or time feeds invoices and reporting. Everhour Time Tracking captures task and project hours through timers or manual entries, supports approvals and locked periods, and keeps tracked work ready for timesheets, budgeting, invoicing, and payroll review.
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A client agreement, firm policy, or billing guideline decides the billing increment. The tracker should support the increment you actually use and preserve the underlying description, date, matter, and timekeeper. The key recordkeeping problem is incomplete or vague time, since the time and labor required is one factor in evaluating fee reasonableness under ABA Model Rule 1.5.
Attorneys should track time on flat-fee matters when the firm wants profitability, staffing, or scope data. The entry does not need to become a client invoice line, but it shows how much attorney time the matter consumed. That record helps compare the fixed fee with actual work performed.
The strongest legal time entry names the client or matter, work date, timekeeper, task description, billable status, time amount, and rate or fee category. Corporate clients may also require UTBMS task, activity, and expense codes or LEDES-compatible timekeeper and rate data for electronic billing.
Non-billable attorney time can appear in the same tracking system when it is clearly labeled. Mixing billable and non-billable work without a field for status creates invoice cleanup and weakens profitability analysis. A clean separation lets the firm review total effort without charging the client for internal or excluded work.
Time drops out when entries are missed, written down, rejected by billing review, or left unpaid after invoicing. Clio's 2025 benchmark reports 88% realization, 93% collection, and median total lockup of 93 days. Cleaner entries do not guarantee payment, but they reduce avoidable write-downs and billing delays.
Everhour Time Tracking lets attorneys capture task and project hours with live timers or manual entries, then route those hours into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review. Admin controls cover approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer behavior, which helps firms keep billing records consistent before invoice review.
Capture matter work as it happens, review approved entries, and move time into billing with Everhour Time Tracking for cleaner attorney invoicing.
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