And I answer the phone when you call.
TimeNet Law exists because a big company decided Mac attorneys weren't worth supporting. I took that personally.
Over twenty years ago, I was building time tracking and invoicing software for myself and a few clients. Nothing fancy — just tools that worked. Then TimeSlips killed their Mac application, and suddenly attorneys were flooding my inbox, desperate for help.
They had no alternatives. The big companies didn't care about Mac users. They were stuck.
"These lawyers trusted a company with their livelihood, and that company decided they weren't worth supporting anymore. I couldn't let that stand."
So I built TimeNet Law. Not because I saw a market opportunity. Not because investors told me to. Because attorneys needed something reliable, and no one else was stepping up.
I get buyout offers at least once a month. Sometimes more. Private equity firms, larger software companies, competitors looking to consolidate — they all come knocking.
I had months-long acquisition discussions with TimeSolv themselves, right before they got bought by ProfitSolv. I'm extremely glad I didn't sell. I watched what happened next — to them, to their customers, to the whole industry.
"I knew the landscape was all wrong. Too corporate. Too nickel-and-dime. Ultimately, lawyers would pay the price."
Now TimeSolv, Rocket Matter, CosmoLex, and Tabs3 are all owned by the same private equity firm. Clio has raised over $5 billion. When attorneys search for "alternatives," they often end up with another company owned by the same people they're trying to escape.
I could have taken the money. Many times over. But I could tell none of these buyers actually cared about their customers. They cared about returns. About EBITDA. About the exit.
TimeNet Law is my baby. My creation. A passion project of love. I've invested thousands of hours into this software, worked with hundreds of law firms to fine-tune every detail. Selling it would mean watching it get killed — or worse, rolled into some Walmart-style generic buggy billing system that treats attorneys like numbers on a spreadsheet.
That's not happening.
Customer support is one of my biggest passions. I love talking directly to my users and solving problems. It's a huge rush for me, and a major point of pride.
When you email TimeNet Law, you're emailing me. When you call, I answer. When you need help at 9pm on a Sunday because your database vanished and you have court in the morning, I pick up the phone and we fix it together.
I've built custom features for attorneys and had them deployed by lunch. I've fixed critical bugs within the hour. I've done screen shares, restored data, set up new offices — whatever it takes.
"Try calling the person who wrote Clio. See how far you get."
You don't buy software expecting perfection. You buy software expecting a solution when something goes wrong. That's what I offer: not a ticket queue, not a chatbot, not a three-day wait for someone to read your message. Just me, picking up the phone.
After twenty years of working directly with attorneys, I've learned something the big companies will never understand: lawyers don't want powerful software. They want friction eliminated.
They want time tracking so good, they'll actually use it. They want to pull up a client file while on the phone with no headaches, no delays, no "you've been logged out" surprises. They want to make an invoice and email it off in seconds.
They don't want to be accountants — but they can't mess up the accounting because trust regulations and IOLTA compliance are unforgiving. Most lawyers don't trust their billing software, so they spend extra hours auditing it and second-guessing it. And they're right to, because many systems are overcomplicated and riddled with bugs.
TimeNet Law isn't good because it "does everything." It's good because it does what you need — reliably, predictably, boringly. No massive updates that break your workflow. No new bugs introduced because someone decided to rebuild the whole system for investor demos.
Just stable, finely crafted law office management software that's been thoughtfully iterated to perfection.
Lawyers don't want bells and whistles. They want a law firm that hums along, running on a system they can trust, with a phone number to call when something inevitably goes wrong.
That's what TimeNet Law is. That's what I built. And as long as attorneys need software they can actually rely on — software built by someone who gives a damn — I'll be here.
"When you become a TimeNet Law customer, you're not getting a vendor. You're getting a partner. And that partner is me."
— Perry
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