Everhour connects legal matter time to budgets and billing, while your records keep client, matter, and code detail.
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This page is for legal teams that need time entries organized by client, matter, date, timekeeper, rate, narrative, and billing code. A useful record answers two questions fast: which matter received the work, and which billable or internal activity consumed the time. That structure matters for firms, legal departments, and operations teams that review time before invoicing or budget reporting.
A legal time entry should also preserve payroll and wage context for employees. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, employer records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The FLSA requires accurate records for nonexempt workers, but it does not require one specific timekeeping form or system.
Legal billing records need more than a weekly total. LEDES 1998B fee line items include date incurred, billed hours, timekeeper ID or name, timekeeper classification, line-item description, unit cost, and task or activity code fields. The same specification uses client and matter identifiers, including CLIENT_ID and LAW_FIRM_MATTER_ID, with CLIENT_MATTER_ID available when the client assigns matter numbers.
A complete fee entry can read like this: client ABC, matter 2026-014, June 12, attorney J. Lee, 1.4 hours, $325 rate, L320 discovery motion research, A102 research. The hours become billed units in a LEDES 1998B fee line, and the total follows from unit cost, units, and any adjustment. Clear narratives reduce billing questions during review.
Legal teams often use task and activity codes because clients want spend grouped by phase, not only by person. ABA litigation UTBMS groups legal work from L100 case assessment through L500 appeal, with activity codes A101 through A111 for the way work was performed and expense codes E101 through E124 for out-of-pocket items.
Code discipline breaks down when people choose a broad code and leave the narrative to explain everything. A better entry pairs the code with a plain description of the work actually performed. Non-litigation work can use ABA project UTBMS codes P100 through P800, covering areas such as due diligence, strategy, document preparation, negotiation, closing, and post-completion work.
A free one-off tool is enough when you need to collect a few entries, check a weekly total, or prepare a small matter summary. It stops being enough when tracked time feeds client budgets, fee arrangements, invoice review, and payroll or billing handoff. At that point, the record needs approvals, locked periods, consistent matter tags, and budget visibility.
Everhour Project Budgeting fits that managed workflow by tracking hour-based or money-based budgets as time is logged. Legal teams can use recurring budget periods for ongoing matters, alerts at defined thresholds, and client-level budgets across multiple projects. That turns time review into a budget control process instead of a spreadsheet cleanup step.
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A practical legal time entry includes client, matter, date, timekeeper, timekeeper role or classification, hours, rate, narrative, and task or activity code when the client requires coded billing. LEDES 1998B fee lines use these fields to support standardized e-billing, so missing matter IDs, vague descriptions, or absent codes create review and invoice problems.
For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, employer records must show hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. That recordkeeping duty is separate from client billing detail. A firm can track billable matter time and still needs complete wage-and-hour records for covered nonexempt employees.
Covered nonexempt employees must receive FLSA 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 of pay. Hours cannot be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes, even when a pay period covers multiple weeks.
Matter IDs connect a time entry to the correct client file, invoice, e-bill, budget, and profitability report. LEDES 1998B requires CLIENT_ID and LAW_FIRM_MATTER_ID, and it also includes CLIENT_MATTER_ID when the client assigns its own matter identifier. Missing or inconsistent IDs force manual cleanup before billing.
Fixed-fee work still benefits from time tracking because hours show whether the matter stayed within the planned effort. ABA UTBMS task codes also support budgeting and comparison by litigation phase or project category. The tracked hours do not have to become hourly charges, but they give the team a record for pricing, staffing, and future estimates.
Everhour Project Budgeting tracks hour-based and money-based budgets as people log time against projects. Legal teams can set recurring budget periods, receive threshold alerts, include or exclude expenses from fee budgets, and manage client-level budgets across multiple matters.
Everhour Reporting turns logged time, budgets, costs, and project data into configurable reports with columns for client, project, member, billable time, labor costs, invoice status, and budget metrics. Reports can be exported as CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF for billing review or archive work.
Track matter hours against budgets before invoices go out. Everhour connects logged time, recurring budget periods, threshold alerts, and client-level budgets into a clearer legal billing workflow.
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