FOR FELLOW LAWYERS PRODUCT FOCUS: Point One is On Point AUTOMATES Time
A Remarkable New Tool for the Dreaded Time-consuming Timekeeping for Attorneys
One of the “little big” difficulties of the practice of law (on the lawyer’s part) is the keeping of the dreaded time………… .1, .5, 1.0, 1.1.
Many find it dehumanizing, disabling, and in the least, annoying.
Especially busy lawyers can mark their time at the end of day, during the day, at the end of the week, at the end of the month.
In the worst cases, a lawyer forgets to do some or all (usually some) and must then “go back” and reconstruct the time which was expended through looking at emails, phone records, document records, calendar.
We all have our ways.
Boy! Of course there are not shortage of sw options and platforms…
Buddy Punch (yes)
OnTheClock
When I Work
LawBillity
TimeSolv
TimeKeeper
Timeworks
Homebase
Clickup
Teamwork
Clio
Smokeball
Chrometa
Bill4Time
Casefox
QuickBooks Time
Timely
Filevine
actiTime
Clockify
iTimeKeep
LawPay
Toggl Track
Freshbooks
Harvest
Lawbillity
Centerbase
MS Outlook
Bear in mind, these still require attorney or legal staff to open and enter into forms, for the most part, time-keeping which costs more time.
Ultimately, though, even with the software, timekeeping is only as good as the discipline of the attorney, team, or law firm to capture always in minute detail the time expended.
I found an amazing and remarkable solution, a YC W23 company. [Am not involved in any way w this company, this is not sales nor marketing, am not yet a customer, simply sharing a new Ai practice tool w my fellow practitioners.]
Lawyers who want to keep better time, please look into Point One Ai!
https://pointone.ai/
No more spreadsheets. No more punching entries in Clio or what have you. No more utilizing legal staff teams to record the time for you (and are freed up for other tasks). No more stress at the end of the day end of the week end of the month to catch up.
No more “remembered reconstructions” through email, phone records, hand written notes ad hoc or ad mass.
Point One runs in background on your terminal. Records your actions. Knows which documents and tasks and people go with which client/file. Knows how much time you spend down to the second and what you do.
Using Ai, Point One provides automated tracking and reporting to lawyer and team. Daily/weekly/monthly/on demand — what you spent your time on and what you did.
Automatically-captured and automatically-assigned to matter time entries. Did I say automatic?
Point One is a growing start-up under the sturdy, experienced, and visionary leadership of Adrian Parlow and team. They are completely changing the law practice management (time) game with through Ai — on one of the most time-consuming and sometimes stressful aspects of practicing law - TIMEKEEPING!
I’ve always wondered about lawyers and time keeping. In the academic world people work with grant money that usually specifies a number of hours expected per week. I’ve never had to account for my time, but I’ve long sustained that I spent more actual time than allocated. I can see how automating this task for lawyers would have multiple advantages. AI is revolutionizing lawyers in the workplace from top to bottom eh? It’s freeing up time and keeping better track of it. In a profession infamous for its long work hours it’s an impressive tool.