Surface the billable work that timers miss.
Passive capture across email, documents, calls, and research, with AI designed to match each activity to the right matter. The goal is a reviewable timesheet at end of day, not a stopwatch.
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Designed to end forgotten billable time
Most time tracking tools ask attorneys to change their behavior. LegalEdge is built to capture work without forcing that change.
Passive capture, zero clicking
LegalEdge is designed to monitor work across documents, emails, calls, and research, capturing activity and timestamps without anyone starting or stopping a timer.
AI matter matching
AI is designed to analyze file names, email participants, document content, and activity context to assign captured time to the correct matter, with confidence scoring on entries that need review.
Built to surface unbilled work
The product target is simple: get the small, easy-to-forget activities (a three-minute call, a seven-minute email exchange, a brief document review) onto the timesheet where they can be billed.
Fast end-of-day review
Open a pre-built timesheet at the end of the day. Approve, adjust, or add narrative, then submit, instead of reconstructing the day from memory.
How passive time capture is designed to work
A walkthrough of the time tracking flow. Live product screenshots will be added once that surface area is ready to share publicly.
The problem manual timers cannot solve
Industry research, including Clio's Legal Trends Report, has consistently placed average attorney utilization around 38% of the working day, with manual timers and end-of-day reconstruction routinely losing 10 to 40 percent of billable work. The small activities (a brief call, a quick email, a short document review) are the easiest to forget, and they add up. LegalEdge is designed around the assumption that timers are the wrong primitive.
- Manual timers require remembering to start and stop them
- End-of-day reconstruction tends to underestimate actual time worked
- Small activities are the most likely to disappear from the timesheet
- Industry studies consistently report low utilization under manual entry
Step 1: passive capture in the background
Install the LegalEdge desktop companion (Windows and Mac), then work as you normally would. The companion is designed to silently detect when you open a document, draft an email, join a call, visit a legal research site, or interact with any matter-related file, logging the activity, duration, and context.
- Lightweight desktop companion designed to stay out of the way
- Captures documents, emails, browser activity, calls, and meetings
- Privacy controls let you exclude personal apps and websites
- Works offline and syncs captured activity when you reconnect
Step 2: AI matches activities to matters
Captured activity is designed to pass through LegalEdge AI, which analyzes file names, email participants, document metadata, and content patterns to match it to a matter. The model is designed to learn from your corrections so accuracy improves over time, with confidence scoring on entries that need attention.
- Multi-signal matching across file names, contacts, content, and history
- Learns from corrections, with the goal of improving accuracy over time
- Confidence scoring highlights entries that need attention
- New matters are designed to be recognized from their first activity
Step 3: review and approve the timesheet
At end of day, open the time review dashboard. Captured activity is grouped by matter with suggested descriptions. Approve entries that need no changes, adjust durations, edit narratives, merge related activities, or split entries across matters.
- One-click approval for entries that need no changes
- AI-drafted narratives intended to match the firm's billing style
- Merge, split, and bulk-edit tools for fast adjustments
- Minimum increment rounding (6, 10, or 15 minute increments)
Step 4: real-time visibility for firm leadership
Managing partners and billing coordinators see a live view of firm-wide time capture: who is on track, who has unreviewed entries piling up, and which matters are approaching budget thresholds. Automated reminders nudge attorneys with unsubmitted time so leadership does not have to do it personally.
- Firm-wide dashboard for captured, reviewed, and submitted time
- Budget alerts when matters approach fee caps or estimate limits
- Automated reminders for unsubmitted time
- Utilization and realization reports updated in real time
Manual timers still available when you want them
Passive capture is designed to complement manual entry, not replace it. Start and stop timers, create manual entries, or use a quick-entry keyboard shortcut at any time. Deduplication is designed to prevent double-billing when passive capture and a manual timer overlap on the same activity.
- One-click timer from any screen in the platform
- Global keyboard shortcut to start and stop without switching apps
- Automatic deduplication intended to prevent double-billing
- Mobile app for capturing time on courthouse visits and depositions
From captured time to collected revenue
Captured time is designed to flow into billing, matter dashboards, and financial reporting without leaving the platform.
Billing and Invoicing
Approved time entries are designed to flow into draft invoices. No exports, no manual re-entry, no lost entries between systems.
Matter Management
Every time entry is tied to its matter. Matter dashboards show real-time billable totals, budgets, and unbilled WIP.
Financial Reporting
Utilization and realization reports are designed to update in real time as time is captured and approved.
Client Portal
Clients can see detailed time narratives on their invoices, with the goal of transparent billing and fewer disputes.
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