

Of the 22 products I analyzed in the Buyer’s Guide, only four lacked such an integration.

That’s because most billing applications can transfer time entries and other data to accounting systems. If you hand your assistant a printed report of your time entries nowadays, she’ll complain to her friends about your luddite ways. The rise of first-party integrations and all-in-one applications. Here are the top five trends in time-billing software I discovered while researching the TL Research Buyer’s Guide to Legal Billing Software.ġ. While billing habits have (hopefully) improved since then, many law firms still leave money on the proverbial table because they don’t take advantage of the latest technologies. She loved not having to decipher handwriting like all the other assistants in the firm. Each week, I printed a report and handed it to my assistant, who then entered it into the firm’s accounting system.

I think I was the only lawyer among more than 300 in the firm who used software for time entry. Back then, I entered billable hours into the long-forgotten Mac version of Amicus Attorney. I haven’t billed my time since the late 1990s. So, what do you need to know before spending on your firm’s billing system? For this Friday Five, Neil puts what he learned into perspective for practicing lawyers. TechnoLawyer publisher Neil Squillante researched and wrote the recently published TL Research Buyer’s Guide to Legal Billing Software, interviewing top consultants and executives at the major companies in that space.
