Harvest
Time Tracking
Sign up free

Billable Hours Tracker for Legal Professionals

Only 33% of an 8-hour day is billed by lawyers. Harvest maximizes billable hours with automated tracking for legal professionals.

Try Harvest Free

What should you charge per hour?

Most freelancers and consultants dramatically undercharge. This calculator accounts for what most people miss: non-billable time, taxes, and overhead.

$
Accounting for vacation, holidays, sick days
60%
Most freelancers can bill 50-70% of their time. The rest goes to admin, marketing, proposals, and learning.
$
Software, insurance, equipment, accounting, taxes beyond income tax, etc.
Your break-even rate $0
Recommended rate (+20% buffer) $0
Billable hours per week 0h
Equivalent daily rate $0

Start tracking your billable hours

Walk through the entire flow below. Start a timer, check your reports, and create a real invoice — all in three clicks.

Go ahead — start tracking!

One click and you're timing. Try it right here: start a timer, add an entry, edit the details. This is exactly how it feels in Harvest.

  • One-click timer from browser, desktop & mobile
  • Works inside Jira, Asana, Trello, GitHub & 50+ tools
  • Duration or start/end — your call
  • Day, week & calendar views to stay on top of it all
  • Friendly reminders so no hour gets left behind
Acme Corp
Website Redesign
Homepage layout revisions
1:24:09
Content Strategy
Blog calendar planning
1:30:00
SEO Audit
Technical audit report
0:45:00
Brand Guidelines
Color system documentation
2:15:00
Logo Concepts
Initial sketches round 1
1:00:00
Today's total 6:54:09

Maximize Billable Hours with Harvest

Legal professionals often struggle to maximize billable hours, with only 33% of an 8-hour day being billed on average. This inefficiency can lead to significant revenue loss, especially when annual targets are set between 1,800 to 2,200 hours. Harvest addresses these challenges with its automated time tracking capabilities, allowing lawyers to optimize their time and focus on billable tasks. By utilizing one-click start/stop timers, Harvest ensures immediate and accurate logging of tasks, minimizing the common delays that can reduce billable hours by up to 50-70% if time entries are postponed until the end of the week.

Harvest also supports manual time entries, providing flexibility for those moments when legal professionals need to log work retrospectively. This feature is crucial for maintaining accuracy and compliance with billing requirements, thereby enhancing the overall efficiency of legal operations.

Enhance Legal Billing Accuracy with Harvest

Accurate billing is critical for legal professionals, as delayed time entries can result in a 10-15% under-billing, escalating to 25% when delayed by 24 hours. Harvest eliminates these issues by providing detailed reporting on billable versus non-billable hours, vital for precise client invoicing and maintaining compliance with ABA trust accounting rules. The tool's ability to categorize time entries by project and task allows for specific tracking by case type or client matter, ensuring that all billable work is accounted for and reported accurately.

Moreover, with features like automated invoice generation from tracked hours, Harvest streamlines the billing process, reducing the lockup period which averages 93 days for law firms. This not only enhances cash flow but also improves client satisfaction by providing transparent and timely billing information.

Integrate Seamlessly with Existing Legal Systems

For legal professionals, the ability to integrate time tracking tools with existing case management systems is crucial. Harvest supports integrations with platforms like Asana, Trello, and Slack, which helps synchronize calendars, case files, and client data seamlessly. This connectivity reduces the need for duplicate data entry and improves overall billing accuracy, thereby enhancing productivity.

By utilizing Harvest's integration capabilities, legal firms can ensure that all client communications and research activities are logged automatically. This efficiency not only aids in capturing the additional 25 billable hours per month, as reported by some firms, but also ensures compliance with ethical and legal standards, protecting against potential malpractice.

Harvest Billable Hours Tracker

Harvest's interface shows automated tracking for legal professionals, enhancing billing accuracy and efficiency.

Harvest tracking interface for legal billable hours

Billable Hours Tracker for Legal Professionals FAQs

  • Legal professionals can track billable hours effectively using tools like Harvest, which offers automated timers and manual entry options. This ensures precise time capture and reduces under-billing risks by up to 50% when records are delayed.

  • Harvest's automated tracking, detailed reporting, and invoice generation make it suitable for legal billing. It categorizes time entries by case type, ensuring compliance with ABA trust accounting rules.

  • Yes, Harvest integrates with various platforms such as Asana and Slack, allowing seamless data synchronization with legal case management systems. This integration enhances productivity by reducing duplicate data entry.

  • Delayed time entry can lead to a 10-15% under-billing, increasing to 25% if delayed by 24 hours. Harvest helps mitigate this issue with one-click timers for immediate logging.

  • Time tracking is essential for legal professionals to ensure accurate billing, meet annual targets, and comply with ethical standards. Harvest captures additional billable hours, potentially increasing revenue by $8,600 per lawyer.

  • Harvest aids compliance by providing detailed reports and supporting ABA trust accounting rules. It ensures clear separation of operating and trust funds, crucial for legal billing audits.

  • Automated time tracking benefits lawyers by reducing manual entry errors, capturing more billable hours, and increasing invoiced amounts. Harvest users report at least 15 additional hours billed per month.