Attorneys: tracking your time shouldn't take time.
Dear Attorney,
You know the monthly timekeeping drill — we sit around for a while and think about the work we've done in the past few weeks. We scan through our sent mail, we flip through our calendar, and we try to piece together bills for our clients. In the end, we estimate our time, under-bill our clients, lose revenue for our firms, and reduce our ability to meet our billable targets.
A leading law firm consultant has noted that "Attorneys fail to bill from 10 to 25 percent of their legitimate billable hours due to bad recording habits, overwhelm and disorganization, and poor team management." This means for every $1 million in gross billings, your firm is losing as much as a quarter of a million dollars a year for work performed but never billed.
As an attorney, I have tried a number of methods to track my time: Post-It's, time sheets in Excel, and piecing together old emails. In the end, each and every system required me to constantly input my time throughout the day — a daunting and unrealistic task. Even as I tried to be a diligent timekeeper, I still lost bits and fragments of valuable time that should have been billed for.
In early 2007 I set out to find a solution to attorney timekeeping and envisioned a simple computer application that would automatically capture and track my time. My efforts have resulted in Chrometa — software that automatically captures and categorizes all billable time spent on the computer — with no interaction or data entry required.
Since Chrometa automatically captures all computer-based billable activity, it helps attorneys keep track of their time and, more importantly, it ensures that you and your firm get paid for every second of billable work.
I'd like to present you with a 30-day free trial, so you can see for yourself the value and simplicity of Chrometa's solution.
Adam Tope
Attorney, Technologist, and Chrometa Advisor
