As a legal professional, you understand how crucial accurate time tracking and billing are to the health of your practice. LawBillity is designed specifically to simplify these processes, helping you capture billable hours, manage invoices, and streamline administrative tasks so you can focus on your clients.
But LawBillity isn’t just another time tracking tool it’s a comprehensive platform built with the needs of busy legal professionals in mind, allowing you to reduce administrative burdens while improving client transparency and trust.
If you’ve only scratched the surface with its core features, you’re missing out on functionalities that could transform the way you manage your firm’s operations. While you may already use LawBillity for its core functions, there are hidden features within the platform that can significantly boost your productivity and billing accuracy, giving you back valuable time while ensuring you never miss a billable moment.
Here are five underrated yet highly valuable features you should explore in your LawBillity account today.
1. Client Portal – Simplify Collaboration
Wouldn’t it be great if you could streamline client communications in one synchronized, confidential platform? LawBillity’s client portal is designed to do just that!
Problem: Clients frequently request case updates, invoices, and payment details, resulting in scattered communication and wasted time on email follow-ups.
Feature Benefit: LawBillity’s secure client portal centralizes all client interactions in one place, providing a clear, organized hub for communication and transparency.
How It Helps:
- Clients can securely view invoices, payment histories, and case progress.
- Reduces back-and-forth email communication and administrative time.
- Provides a seamless, professional client experience.
Pro Tip: Customize your portal settings to match individual client needs, enabling or disabling features based on what each client requires for smoother collaboration.
2. Mobile Time Tracking – Capture Every Billable Minute
We all know billable hours matter, but what about getting down to every billable minute without adding extra hassle to you and your team’s time? LawBillity is here for the billable and the non-billable hours that keep your firm running.
Problem: Attorneys often lose track of billable time when they are away from their desks, resulting in missed revenue opportunities.
Feature Benefit: The LawBillity mobile app enables time tracking on the go, allowing you to record billable hours from courtrooms, client meetings, or while traveling.
How It Helps:
- Track time in real-time using voice-to-text or timers.
- Syncs automatically with your desktop version for seamless billing workflows.
- Allows you to capture every minute of work regardless of where you are.
Pro Tip: Set up geolocation tracking within the app to verify mobile work locations and add another layer of accuracy to your time tracking.
3. Automatic Time Tracking – Never Forget to Log Hours
Making time tracking seamless, simple, and easy is key to freeing up space for busy legal teams. Automating time tracking is one of the best tools a firm can implement and one that LawBillity is well equipped to handle.
Problem: Manual time entry can often lead to missed or inaccurate logging, which can impact both your productivity and billing.
Feature Benefit: LawBillity’s automatic time capture feature records your activities in the background while you work.
How It Helps:
- Tracks time spent on documents, phone calls, and specific applications automatically.
- Creates draft timesheets for your review, adjustment, and approval.
- Acts as a safety net to ensure no billable time is overlooked.
Pro Tip: Use automatic tracking in tandem with your manual entries to cross-check and ensure comprehensive time capture for all activities.
4. Real-Time Reporting Dashboards – Data-Driven Decisions
The power of great decision-making lies in having great data. With real-time dashboards, your analytics are always available at a glance, whenever and wherever you need them.
Problem: Many law firms rely on guesswork for productivity and billing analysis, missing opportunities to optimize workflows and revenue.
Feature Benefit: LawBillity’s dashboards and real-time reporting features give you instant access to key data.
How It Helps:
- Visualizes billable versus non-billable hours for clearer productivity insights.
- Tracks team performance, client budgets, and outstanding invoices.
- Provides actionable data to support operational and strategic decisions.
Pro Tip: Schedule automated weekly reports to be delivered directly to your email, ensuring you stay informed without extra effort.
5. Integrations with Legal Tools – Streamline Your Workflow
Of course, integrations are the backbone of any good legal software. Before fully utilizing a new tool, it’s important to understand what existing platforms LawBillity integrates with. Whether you’re new to LawBillity or you’ve been a member of our legal community for ages, you may not know that LawBillity syncs seamlessly with accounting and case management platforms.
Problem: Switching between accounting, billing, and case management systems can waste time and increase the likelihood of data entry errors.
Feature Benefit: LawBillity integrates seamlessly with popular tools such as QuickBooks, Xero, and Clio, reducing duplicate entries and streamlining your workflow.
How It Helps:
- Automatically syncs data across platforms for consistent and accurate record-keeping.
- Reduces manual data entry, saving you time while improving billing accuracy.
- Allows for smoother financial management and matter tracking across your systems.
Pro Tip: Utilize Zapier integrations to automate tasks such as transferring calendar entries to timesheets or sending payment reminders, enhancing your workflow with minimal manual effort.
From saving time to streamlining tasks and boosting accuracy, LawBillity features are equipped to deliver what your firm needs to scale, build, and thrive in today’s legal landscape. Dive into these top 5 hidden gems in your LawBillity account and start elevating operations through future-proof tech tools.
Elevating Your Practice Through LawBillity
LawBillity offers powerful tools that go beyond simple time tracking and billing, providing features designed to improve your productivity, accuracy, and client relationships. By leveraging the client portal, mobile time tracking, automatic time capture, real-time reporting dashboards, and system integrations, you can enhance your workflows and maximize your billable hours.
Don’t leave these powerful tools unused. Log in to your LawBillity account today to explore these features and take your legal practice management to the next level. If you’d like personalized guidance, request a free walkthrough with our support team to learn how to use these features effectively in your daily workflow.
