Everhour tracks attorney time by task and project, with billing-ready records for client, matter, and review workflows.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
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A timesheet app for attorneys helps you turn daily legal work into clean time records for billing, internal review, and matter analysis. The practical goal is a record that shows who worked, which client or matter received the work, the date, the time spent, and whether the entry is billable or non-billable.
Legal work often starts in calendars, tasks, communication logs, notes, documents, and email. A useful timesheet process captures those sources before memory fades. For example, an attorney can record 1.2 hours for drafting a motion, assign it to the correct matter, mark it billable, and leave enough description for billing review.
A defensible attorney time entry needs more than a duration. Include the client, matter, date, timekeeper, task description, billable status, rate or fee basis when needed, and any internal review note. ABA Model Rule 1.5 points to the scope of representation and the basis or rate of fees and expenses as client communication points, with time and labor required as one factor in fee reasonableness.
Corporate legal clients may require structured billing details. UTBMS uses task codes for the legal service, activity codes for the work performed, and expense codes for matter expenses. LEDES standards support e-billing, budgeting, and timekeeper or rate data exchange between law firms and clients. Those requirements make consistent matter, task, activity, and rate fields essential.
Attorney timesheets lose value when non-billable work disappears from the record. Non-billable time may still matter on contingency or flat-fee matters because it shows the real labor cost behind the engagement. Track administrative work, business development, write-downs, and excluded time separately from billable client work so utilization and matter profitability stay readable.
Clio's 2025 benchmark reports average law firm utilization at 38%, equal to 3.0 billable hours captured in an average 8-hour workday. It also reports average realization at 88% and collection at 93%. Those metrics depend on complete time capture first, then accurate billing review, invoicing, and payment follow-up.
A free timesheet tool is enough for a solo attorney preparing a weekly total, a short matter summary, or a quick billing backup. It works when the record volume is low, the client does not require structured e-billing fields, and one person controls both time entry and invoice review.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when attorneys, paralegals, and reviewers need one system of record. Everhour can support that workflow by capturing task and project hours through timers or manual entries, then feeding timesheets, reporting, budgeting, invoicing, and payroll review with approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules.
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Attorney time tracking is centered on client billing, fee communication, and matter management rather than a universal legal duty to clock every minute. ABA Model Rule 1.5 requires lawyers to communicate the scope of representation and the basis or rate of fees and expenses before or within a reasonable time after starting representation, unless the client is regularly represented on the same basis.
A complete attorney timesheet entry should include the date, timekeeper, client, matter, task description, time spent, billing status, and rate or fee basis when needed. Corporate legal billing may also require UTBMS task, activity, and expense codes, plus LEDES-compatible timekeeper and rate data for electronic invoice review.
Yes. Non-billable legal work should be tracked when you need accurate utilization, matter profitability, or staffing analysis. Contingency and flat-fee matters still consume attorney time, so recording non-billable work against the correct matter shows the real labor behind the result even when the entry does not appear as a billable invoice line.
Vague entries cause disputes because the client cannot connect the billed time to a specific legal task. A line such as "review file" gives little support. A stronger entry names the matter activity, such as reviewing deposition transcript excerpts for summary judgment issues, and assigns the time to the correct client and matter.
UTBMS and LEDES codes are needed when a client or e-billing process requires structured legal billing data. UTBMS classifies task, activity, and expense details. LEDES standards support legal e-billing and related data exchange, including budgeting and timekeeper or rate information between law firms and clients.
Everhour Time Tracking lets attorneys record task and project hours with live timers or manual entries, then route that time into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review. Admins can use approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules to keep reviewed time stable before billing.
Everhour gives legal teams a durable time workflow with timers, manual entries, approvals, and locked periods, so reviewed attorney hours move cleanly into billing and reporting.
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