Today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire covers an alternative word processor, a utility designed to automate the formatting of legal documents, and software that automates time capture (see article below). Don't miss the next issue.
Stop Tracking Your Time and Start Capturing It Instead
By Peter R. Olson
As a lawyer, you may not love living your life in painstakingly quantified six minute time increments, but until some of the so-called "alternate billing" options become mainstream, the billable hour (more like the billable one-tenth of an hour) remains your meal ticket. So instead of wasting your time (money) complaining, how about automating your time capture as much as possible?
IntApp's Time Builder 2.2 is a time capture solution that tracks your time keeping by directly monitoring email, smartphones, phone systems, calendars, and document management systems. Time Builder aims to reduce the time spent entering time.
Rather than scribbling down your time notes for later entry into a separate accounting or billing program, Time Builder provides you and your colleagues with a "journal" of all your billable activity. From this report, you can quickly create time entries in your billing software.
Using Time Builder's Web-based configuration interface, your administrator chooses specific applications for continuously monitored time tracking. Time Builder can email everyone's journal daily, weekly, or not at all (your choice) with your time breakdown. Time Builder enables you to exclude peripheral activities like personal email messages and phone calls.
By presenting this information directly within your existing time entry applications, Time Builder makes it easy for lawyers or their secretaries to review, edit, and then approve billing entries. You can configure Time Builder to send journal reports via email or to present information directly into your existing time entry application so you can review, edit and submit entries through a single, consolidated interface that you already know how to use.
Time Builder's time monitoring integrates with Microsoft Exchange, BlackBerrys, Windows Mobile phones, Avaya and Cisco VoIP phone systems, Interwoven, Open Text/Hummingbird, Lexis InterAction, Elite WebView, Advanced Productivity Software's DTE, Sage Carpe Diem, and Aderant CMS. Learn more about Time Builder.
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