You built your firm from nothing. Your billing software should respect that. One-time purchase. No monthly fees. No cloud dependency. Just a Mac app that does the work.
Try FreeRunning a solo law firm means you are the attorney. The office manager. The billing department. The collections agent. The IT department. The marketing team. Every hour spent wrestling with software is an hour you did not bill.
Most legal billing platforms were designed for mid-size firms with dedicated administrators, bookkeepers, and IT support. They assume someone else will handle setup. Someone else will run the reports. Someone else will reconcile the trust accounts.
At a solo firm, that someone is you. Always.
TimeNet Law was built for that reality. Not because we added a "solo mode" to an enterprise product. Because the person who wrote the software has spent 20 years watching solo practitioners get ignored by vendors chasing bigger contracts. The interface is simple. The features are the ones you actually use. The learning curve is measured in minutes, not weeks.
You did not go solo to spend your evenings learning software. You went solo to practice law on your own terms. See how solo attorneys use TimeNet Law day-to-day.
Every dollar in subscription fees is a dollar that did not go in your pocket. Here is what cloud billing software actually costs a solo firm over five years.
Cloud billing vendors price by the month because it sounds small. $59 per month. $69 per month. $89 per month. Put that on a credit card and forget about it.
But solo practitioners cannot afford to forget about it. That $69 per month is $828 per year. Over five years, that is $4,140. If you bill at $250 per hour, your billing software costs you more than 16 hours of billable work. Every five years. Forever.
TimeNet Law is $479.99. Once. That is it. No monthly invoice showing up to remind you that you are paying rent on software you already learned. No price increases when the vendor gets acquired by private equity. No surprise fee changes buried in an email you were supposed to read.
For a solo firm watching every dollar, that difference is not trivial. It is the difference between a profitable quarter and a tight one. Visit our pricing page for the full breakdown.
Private equity buys your software. Prices go up. Support goes down. You know how this works. TimeNet Law has had the same owner for 20 years. Every buyout offer rejected. That is the whole story.
Enterprise software vendors sell features by the pound. Workflow automation. Client portals. AI document drafting. Integrations with 200 apps you have never heard of. All of it designed to justify a monthly fee that goes up every year.
A solo firm needs something different. You need the five things that actually keep a law practice running.
Record time the moment you do the work. Global hotkey captures time from any app on your Mac. No switching windows. No lost entries. No end-of-day reconstruction.
Generate clean, professional invoices in seconds. Customize your template once and use it forever. Batch invoicing for months when you have been too busy to bill on time.
IOLTA compliance built in. Three-way reconciliation. Per-client balance tracking. The thing that keeps you on the right side of the bar. It just works.
Know where your firm stands at any moment. Revenue by client, by matter, by practice area. Accounts receivable aging. The numbers you need to make real decisions about your practice.
Not a web app pretending to be desktop software. A real Mac application that launches instantly, works offline, and respects how you use your computer. More about Mac-native billing.
Sync with your Mac calendar for time reconstruction. Forgot to log a two-hour hearing? Your calendar remembers. Build time entries from your actual schedule.
That is it. No feature bloat. No modules you need to unlock. Every feature ships with the software because solo firms do not have time to comparison-shop add-ons. See the full feature list.
You are not sitting at a desk from 9 to 5 entering time in a browser tab. You are in court at 8 AM. At a client meeting at lunch. Drafting a motion at 10 PM after the kids are in bed. Your billing software needs to keep up with that schedule, not fight it.
TimeNet Law runs on your Mac. Not in a browser. That means it works when the courthouse WiFi is down. It works on the train. It works at 35,000 feet. No spinning wheel waiting for a server in Virginia to respond. No "session expired, please log in again."
The global hotkey lets you start a timer from any application. Reading a PDF in Preview? One keystroke starts the clock. On a phone call? Same keystroke. Reviewing documents in your email? Same keystroke. You never leave what you are doing to go find your billing software.
At the end of the day, or the end of the week, or the end of the month when you finally get around to it, your time is already there. Waiting. Organized. Ready to invoice.
Solo practitioners lose an average of 10% to 30% of billable time to poor capture habits. At $250 per hour billing 1,500 hours per year, that is $37,500 to $112,500 left on the table. A faster time capture tool does not just pay for itself. It pays for your entire overhead.
Trust accounting mistakes are the number one reason solo practitioners face bar discipline. Not malpractice. Not missed deadlines. Trust accounting. Commingling funds, failing to reconcile, or losing track of a client balance can end a career.
This is not something you want to manage in a spreadsheet. It is not something you want to trust to a cloud vendor who might change their feature set, raise their prices, or get acquired next quarter.
TimeNet Law includes full IOLTA trust accounting. Here is what that means in practice.
Bank balance, book balance, and individual client balances. All three match. Every month. Automatically.
Every deposit and disbursement tracked to the individual client. Full audit trail for any bar inquiry.
The software will not let you disburse more than a client has in trust. That is a guardrail, not a feature.
Generate trust account reports for any period. When the bar comes asking, the answer is one click away.
Solo practitioners are more vulnerable to trust accounting errors because there is no one checking your work. No bookkeeper catching a mistake before it becomes a problem. TimeNet Law is your safety net. It handles the math so you can focus on the law.
Here is the dirty secret of per-seat pricing. Cloud vendors are betting against your success. When you hire a paralegal, they charge more. When you bring on an associate, they charge more. When you add a part-time bookkeeper, they charge more.
Every person you add to your firm increases your monthly software cost by $39 to $89. That paralegal who was supposed to free up your time for billable work? Part of their salary just went to your software vendor.
TimeNet Law has no per-seat fees. One purchase covers your firm. Today that means just you. Next year, it might mean you and a paralegal. In five years, maybe you and two associates. The software cost does not change.
That is how it should work. You took the risk of going solo. You should keep the rewards when it pays off. Not share them with a billing software company in San Francisco.
When your client data lives on someone else's server, you are not in control. You are a tenant. The landlord can change the terms, raise the rent, or sell the building to someone you have never met.
Cloud vendors monetize your data in ways their terms of service allow but their marketing never mentions. Aggregate billing data. Usage patterns. Client demographics. When you accept their terms, you give them permission to learn from your practice. Even if they promise not to look at individual records, the aggregate data has value. That is why they want it on their servers.
TimeNet Law stores everything on your Mac. Your billing records. Your client information. Your trust account data. Your entire practice history. It never leaves your computer unless you decide to move it. No server. No cloud. No third-party access.
This matters more than most attorneys realize. If a cloud vendor gets breached, your client data is exposed. If they get acquired, your data changes hands. If they shut down, you are scrambling to export before the servers go dark.
With TimeNet Law, your data is a file on your Mac. Back it up however you back up everything else. Time Machine. An external drive. Whatever you trust. It is yours. You can export it anytime, in standard formats, with no vendor lock-in. No exit fees. No "please contact sales to download your data."
You built your practice over years. Maybe decades. That data tells the story of every client, every case, every hour of work. It belongs to you. Keep it that way.
Good billing software only works if you use it well. Here are the habits that separate solo practitioners who collect 95% of their billings from those who write off 30%.
These habits are easier to maintain when your software is fast and always available. If billing feels like a chore, you put it off. If it takes two keystrokes to capture time and 30 seconds to generate an invoice, you do it consistently. That consistency is worth tens of thousands of dollars per year to a solo firm. Check out our tutorials to see how fast you can get started.
Call TimeNet Law support and you will talk to the person who wrote the code. Not a call center in another time zone. Not a chatbot trained on a knowledge base from 2019. Not a ticket queue where your question sits for 48 hours before someone pastes a canned response.
The developer. The person who knows every line of the software because they wrote it. The person who can tell you not just how to fix your problem, but why it happened and how to avoid it next time.
Solo practitioners do not have time for back-and-forth support tickets. When your billing software has a question, you need an answer now. Not tomorrow. Not after you escalate to tier two. Now.
That is what 20 years of independent ownership looks like. The person who cares most about the software is the one who answers the phone. Read more about the company on our blog.
Cloud billing software typically costs $49 to $89 per month for a solo practitioner. That adds up to $588 to $1,068 per year. TimeNet Law is a one-time purchase of $479.99 with no monthly fees. Over five years, a solo firm saves $2,460 to $4,860 compared to cloud subscriptions.
Yes. TimeNet Law includes full IOLTA trust accounting with three-way reconciliation. It tracks every deposit, disbursement, and balance per client. Trust accounting errors are one of the most common reasons solo practitioners face bar discipline. TimeNet Law makes compliance straightforward and auditable.
Yes. TimeNet Law is a native Mac application that runs entirely on your computer. You can capture time, generate invoices, and manage your practice from a courthouse, a coffee shop, or anywhere else without needing WiFi or a cellular connection. Your data is always accessible because it lives on your Mac.
Nothing changes with your TimeNet Law license. There are no per-seat fees. One purchase covers your entire firm. When you bring on staff, they can use the software immediately without increasing your monthly overhead. Cloud vendors charge per user, which punishes growth. TimeNet Law does not.
Three differences matter most for solo firms. First, pricing: Clio and PracticePanther charge monthly per-user fees that add up over years. TimeNet Law is a one-time purchase. Second, data control: cloud platforms store your client data on their servers. TimeNet Law keeps everything on your Mac. Third, simplicity: TimeNet Law is built for billing, not for selling you add-ons.
TimeNet Law is ideal for new solo practices because it eliminates recurring software costs during the period when cash flow is tightest. You pay once, start billing immediately, and never worry about a subscription eating into revenue you have not earned yet. The software includes tutorials and support from the developer directly.
Yes. You can export your data anytime. There is no vendor lock-in. Your billing records, client data, and trust account history belong to you, stored on your Mac, accessible whenever you need them. If you ever decide to switch software, your data leaves with you.
Yes. TimeNet Law runs natively on Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4) and Intel Macs. It is built specifically for macOS, not ported from Windows. That means it is fast, stable, and respects how Mac users expect software to work.
When you call TimeNet Law support, you talk to the person who wrote the code. Not a call center. Not a chatbot. Not a ticket queue. Solo practitioners get the same direct access as every other customer. Most issues are resolved in a single conversation.
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