timekeeping

Do You Trim Your Own Time?

July 30, 2010

Regardless of how you track your time, make sure it is accurate. Around these parts, we use Freshbooks for tracking our time in cases, and it works great for the most part. But even when your time is accurate, are you cutting your own time?

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Freshbooks: My Gold Standard for Timekeeping and Billing

July 6, 2010

I have been using Freshbooks for timekeeping and billing for over two years, since March 2008. I discovered Freshbooks in December 2007, started testing it with the free account, and quickly decided that Freshbooks is a better solution than anything I had used before (Time Matters, Timeslips, ProLaw, and Amicus). I’ve used it ever since, [...]

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Run Meetings Like Google

February 17, 2010

Intra-office meetings are notoriously considered tedious exercises in futility, drags on productivity, and generally annoying. If you are fortunate enough to have input on how meetings are run at your firm, suggest running the next meeting like Google.

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Carefully Track Time

January 19, 2010

Whether you bill clients at an hourly rate or work on cases with attorney fee awards, you need to keep track of your time very carefully. Many firms have established increments for billing time, and some firms have even assigned increments for certain tasks. However you do it, make sure every entry has sufficient detail [...]

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Clio and Time59 Announce iPhone Apps (Update: Rocket Matter, Too)

December 23, 2009

Clio was the first major player in the online practice management space to sync with Outlook, and now Clio and Time59 announce iPhone compatibility. Neither offer a true iPhone app; instead, both have iPhone-optimized sites (despite Clio’s confusing blog entry). This is a good thing, in my opinion. Gmail’s iPhone-optimized site is better than any [...]

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Google Calendar Rocks

September 23, 2009

Google Calendar is very user-friendly, and very good at helping you manage your days. If you already use another calendar, consider switching over. If you do not already use a calendar—start using GCal immediately—it is that good. 5 Reasons Why GCal Rocks You can invite people to events or allow them to view your entire [...]

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