TimeNet Law 6.2.1
Latest Mac Release Released July 30th, 2026RAID EDITION
- This release exists to exterminate the bugs that found their way into TimeNet Law during the recent development sprint. Version 6 brought the largest changes in this application's history, quickly followed up by two more massive updates (Oasis and Slipstream). The new framing allowed some new bugs through that had no business reaching your firm. So I spent the last month running a full audit through the application, researching bug reports, and investigating cracks in the foundation. Everything that audit found is now fixed. Three new things made the cut alongside the repairs. But this is mostly a "NO NEW FEATURES" update. If you know, you know.
- Bring your whole firm over from Clio, or another billing system. The new Import Database window reads full CSV contact and matter exports and builds your clients and matters in TimeNet Law. It detects the Clio format, and other common formats, and maps the fields for you, and any other billing system's CSV can be mapped by hand. You see exactly what will be created before anything is written, and a backup runs first.
- Choose what opens when you double-click a client. Client Settings, Matters, Invoices, or Timeline. Set it once in App Settings and every client opens the way you actually work.
Bulletproof Billing
- A class of annoying bugs has been rounded up and squashed.. An invoice could end up showing a zero or negative balance while the entries it billed quietly went back to unbilled. Every path that could cause this has been closed. If you have seen it, your data is recoverable: contact support and I will restore it, to the penny. In addition:
- Re-issued invoices apply only funds that actually exist every time. Re-issuing could post a retainer payment drawn against money that was not in the account under specific conditions.
- Re-issuing always uses the correct invoice number. Automated re-issues could run under a blank number and leave the original unsettled.
- Editing a billed time entry no longer returns it to unbilled. Opening a billed entry and clicking OK, even with nothing changed, could sometimes unbill it. Entries billed to a group invoice are protected too.
- Fund balances are now read from your ledger on-the-fly, rather than a stored figure that could drift out of step with it over time
Entering Time from the Launchpad
- The error when creating or editing time from the Launchpad, Launchbar, or the Client Info Window is gone. Time entries, tasks, and to-dos created from the outside of a matter window could sometimes throw an error and then fail to save. They now save correctly and appear everywhere they should.
- Double-clicking an Apple Calendar event creates its time entry cleanly
- The Task field on a time entry saves, and is still there when you reopen it
Your Firm Settings Secured
- Firm settings no longer revert to defaults under rare sync and race conditions. TimeNet Law now keeps a separate protected copy of your settings, checks it on every launch, and restores it silently if anything is wrong. No dialog, no support call.
- New and demo databases no longer show a warning about an empty settings file
Speed
- Launch is fast again on large databases. Firms with thousands of matters could wait thirty seconds or more at every launch. It is back to a few seconds, the way it should be.
- No more false network warnings on cloud databases. Firms whose data folder lives in iCloud Drive or Dropbox could be told the networked database was unreachable when it was perfectly fine. TimeNet Law now waits for the cloud folder instead of assuming the worst.
Sync Warnings That Mean Something
- The sync warning now only appears when something is genuinely missing. It used to fire whenever your cloud service left a conflict file behind, which is almost always harmless. Now TimeNet Law reads those files, and speaks up only if one contains work that is not in your data. When it does, it offers to restore just the missing data.
Payment Center
- Checking and unchecking invoices updates the payment amount again when you are paying from a trust or retainer account
- New in App Settings: choose whether invoices with a balance start out checked when you create a payment. Most firms want them checked. Some don't. Now it is your call.
- Fixed the amount recorded to an internal account when depositing part of a payment
- Applying available funds now plans from your true ledger balance
Invoices, Importing, and Elsewhere
- Retainer, trust, and escrow balance lines no longer print twice on an invoice
- Importing a CSV from inside a matter no longer asks you to map a Matter column. The matter you are in is the matter it imports to.
- Import Entries now maps your columns every time. Choosing Import Entries from the File menu used to assume one fixed column order and imported anything else as garbled entries. It now opens the same review and mapping window you get by dragging a file onto a matter.
- Control Center change lists now show the client beside the matter, so a generically named matter is no longer a guessing game
- Sorting the time list by rate now puts each rate group in date order, which makes a pre-billing review much faster
- Emailed invoices and Oasis letters now honor the setting that sends a copy to your firm, and those copies appear in the Email Log Report, every time