Everhour connects legal time tracking to reporting, while lawyers still need matter-level records clients can understand.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
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Use this page to structure legal time entries that can move from a lawyer's day into review, invoice drafting, and client collection. A useful entry identifies the client, matter, date, time spent, task, activity, billing status, rate, and a concise narrative. For a litigation matter, "Draft motion to compel, research local rule requirements, billable, 1.4 hours" gives more support than "motion work."
No universal professional rule dictates one timer, spreadsheet, or billing app for every law practice. ABA Model Rule 1.5 does require lawyers to communicate the scope of representation and the basis or rate of fees and expenses before or within a reasonable time after representation begins, preferably in writing. The same rule treats time and labor required as one factor in fee reasonableness, so vague time records weaken fee review.
A legal time record should separate the person who performed the work from the matter billed for it. Core fields are client, matter, date, duration, rate, billing status, task, activity, and narrative. The billing status matters because captured time only becomes revenue after review, invoicing, and collection. Clio reported 2025 averages of 3.0 billable hours captured, 2.6 billed, and 2.4 collected in an average workday of 8 hours.
A daily workflow works best when the lawyer chooses the matter first, then records the specific task and activity while the work is fresh. A sample entry for a corporate client can read: client ABC Manufacturing, matter 2026 contract review, activity revise agreement, billable, 0.7 hours, USD rate that matches the communicated fee basis. The narrative should describe the legal work performed without adding unnecessary confidential detail to the time note.
Client billing rules often decide the level of detail a lawyer must capture before invoice preparation. UTBMS classifies legal services with task codes for the area and phase of work, activity codes for the work performed, and expense codes for matter costs. Legal e-billing may also require LEDES 1998B, a 24-field ASCII pipe-delimited format described by the LEDES Oversight Committee as the most widely used U.S. legal e-billing standard.
Late coding creates rework because someone must translate plain time notes into client-required fields after the fact. The safer workflow captures the matter, task, activity, billing status, and invoice narrative together. Clio reported 2025 median law-firm lockup of 43 days for realization lockup, 32 days for collection lockup, and 93 days total lockup, so delayed billing data ties time to cash flow.
A one-off tracker is enough for a solo lawyer who needs to total today's client work, reconstruct a small invoice, or compare billable and non-billable hours for one matter. It stops being enough once several lawyers, paralegals, or matters need consistent review. At that point, the firm needs one record of who worked, which matter received the time, which entries were billed, and which entries still need approval.
Everhour fits that managed workflow by turning logged time, budgets, costs, and project data into customizable reports. A legal team can group and filter time by client, matter-like project, member, billable status, or date range, then export reports in CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF for billing review. That creates a cleaner handoff from captured work to invoice preparation without asking each lawyer to rebuild totals manually.
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Organize each entry by client, matter, date, person, duration, billing status, task, activity, and narrative. The matter field connects the time to the file, the task and activity explain the legal work, and the billing status separates client-chargeable work from internal, administrative, or written-off time.
A time note should describe the legal service performed in plain language, such as drafting a motion, reviewing a contract, or preparing for a deposition. The note should contain enough detail for client review and fee review. It should avoid unnecessary sensitive personal information, consistent with the FTC's data-security guidance to collect only what a business needs and keep it safe.
UTBMS codes are required only when a client billing guideline or e-billing process requires structured coding. The system classifies legal services with task codes for the area and phase of work, activity codes for the work performed, and expense codes for matter costs. A lawyer should capture those fields before invoice drafting if the client expects coded bills.
Weekend work alone does not create a federal overtime premium under the FLSA. Covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate. State law, local law, policy, or contract can require more.
Covered employers under the FLSA must preserve payroll records for at least three years and basic time and earnings records, such as daily start/stop time cards or sheets, for at least two years. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
Everhour Reporting lets legal teams build customizable reports with 45+ columns, grouping, metadata filters, date ranges, and conditional formatting. A firm can review time by client-style project, member, billable time, labor cost, invoice status, or date range, then export CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF files for billing review.
Everhour Time Tracking embeds timers inside supported project tools such as Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Trello, GitHub, Linear, Monday, Notion, and Basecamp. A lawyer or support team member can start a timer from the task they are working on or add manual time after the work is done.
Use Everhour Reporting to group matter-style project time, filter billable work, and export CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF files for invoice prep and cleaner legal billing review.
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