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TimeNet Law 3.4 is Available Now!

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TimeNet Law 3.4 has landed! This monster update is loaded with new features, UI refinements, and tons of other improvements, including important compatibility updates for macOS Big Sur and Apple Silicon (M1) Macs. Let’s dig in!

Dial up the productivity with QuickTimer – redesigned to be easier to use, more customizable, and faster to access. Start it right from the toolbar in the main window.

TimeNet Law QuickTimer

Rocket right to the report you’re looking for with the new Report Assistant. The most common reports are laid out in plain English, no accounting degree required. You can also jump to any report, or quickly get back into reports you’ve recently ran.

TimeNet Law Report Assistant

Tag your matters with a Practice Area and see which case types bring your firm the most money with the new Practice Area Report. Predict trends and fine-tune your firm’s client marketing strategies by knowing where your revenue is coming from.

Practice Area Report

TimeNet Law has a lot of features, and we’re adding more all the time. It can be confusing navigating all of the options, so we created QuickHelp Guide. Turn it on anytime for a handy heads-up-display showing you details about whatever item your mouse is hovering over. It’s a great way to get started, or brush up on features you’ve never used. Just look for the blue QuickHelp button!

We’ve also made some big improvements to the Payment Center. A streamlined interface makes it easier and faster to apply payments. And you can even change evergreen retainer balance requirements and rules on the fly.

TimeNet Law Payment Center

Of course it wouldn’t be a TimeNet Law update without dozens of great new features and fixes. Be sure to check out the complete release notes by clicking the button below.


One more thing

TimeNet Law 4 Sneak Peek Coming Soon!

TimeNet Law 4 is screaming along, and we expect to have it ready early next year. This HUGE update brings some truly incredible new features and improvements, and we can’t wait to show it to you.

Check back here on December 11th for the inside scoop!
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A Troubling Trend with Legal Software

A troubling trend with legal software
In the last two years, over half a dozen law software companies have been purchased by private equity firms.

The products are merging, or disappearing altogether. As a lawyer, your options for software are disappearing.

We get approached regularly with offers to buy out TimeNet Law. But we remain fiercely independent. Why?

When a private equity firm buys out multiple competing products and combines them together, choice in the marketplace evaporates. Even if the products remain separate at first, they may eventually merge. And meanwhile, a number of troubling things can happen.

  • Customer support often gets worse
  • Prices go up as choice goes down
  • The quality of the software slips as corners are cut
  • Combining multiple products results in a confusing mishmash of different software
  • Everything becomes about the bottom line – even at the expense of the customer

We understand how busy and stressful things can be for attorneys. And the last thing you need to worry about is your law firm’s management software pulling the rug out from under you.

TimeNet Law is committed to staying independent. We’ve been in the market for 20 years, and we’ve watched dozens of products and companies come and go. But we remain. And with almost no marketing. I believe this is because we are absolutely obsessed with creating the highest quality products, and backing them up with the best support in the industry.

Our customers seem to agree. We are only here because of you. Your support and word of mouth advertising means the world to us.

Thank you!

Want to Help Us Stay Independent?

There’s a couple of things you can do that are a huge help!

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How Much Time Do You Spend Billing Every Month?

If the answer is anything more than “a few minutes”, you’re doing it wrong.

You don’t get paid unless the invoices go out. It has to be done every month. And the last thing you should be doing is scrambling to remember your time and update your entries on billing day, printing or emailing invoices by hand one by one, or not sending them out on a predictable schedule.

Using a time tracking and billing system like TimeNet Law makes it easy. Your time is already entered. And your time is accurate, because you’ve used a timer to track how long your tasks took. Your invoices are scheduled, automatically created in bulk, and ready for you to review and send out with one click.

We’ve been told over and over again by attorneys that billing is stressful, time consuming, and monotonous. But it doesn’t have to be that way. If you have a system in place that offers One Click Billing, it can be completely handled for you.

Don’t waste hours every month on your billing. Once you see how nice it is having it handled for you automatically, you’ll never go back.

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TimeNet Law 3.3 is Available Now!

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This update brings over 50 new features, fixes and improvements, and provides 100% compatibility with macOS Big Sur and Apple Silicon Macs.

We are gearing up for a huge update – TimeNet Law 4! Stay tuned for more information coming soon. Meanwhile, make sure and grab this latest update. You can see the full release notes or download it now using the buttons below.

Big Sur Compatible
Fully compatible with macOS Big Sur and Apple Silicon Macs
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Why Your Law Firm Needs to Use Time Tracking Software

Many lawyers aren’t tracking their time like they should. It’s all too common to scribble your time out on a Post-It note, or enter it into a spreadsheet. Sometimes you guess how long a task took. Even worse, you do some work and don’t even account for it at all.

How much time are you forgetting, or miss-calculating? How much money are you leaving on the table? We were curious, and so we asked. And what we found was surprising.

Comparing similar matters before and after implementing a time tracking strategy, lawyers billed up to 35% more time when using a timer like the one built into TimeNet Law.

It turns out, humans aren’t very good at estimating time. And we’re not overestimating. We’re coming up short. Psychologists have coined terms and written books on the phenomena (for example, “the planning fallacy” and “optimism bias.”)

Contractors often miss project completion dates by weeks. A common rule for programmers and video editors is to estimate how long a project will take, and then double it.

That task you did that felt like 45 minutes could easily have been 2 hours. Maybe it took you “10 minutes” to read a document, but a timer would tell you 24 minutes. Those things all add up to significant increases.

By not logging and timing your tasks as you go, you could be losing thousands of dollars in potential revenue for your law firm every single month!

Time tracking isn’t particularly glamorous. It can be tedious or seem unnecessary. But it is absolutely critical that you start building good time tracking habits today. By using time tracking software and recording your time and tasks, as you do them, you will increase your billable hours. We guarantee it. And while time tracking itself may not be particularly exciting, it’s fun to see the money ticking up.

Your time is valuable. What you do is important. Don’t shortchange yourself.