Bill4Time

Bill4Time provides time tracking and billing for law firms and professional services, extending into case management, calendaring, a client portal, CRM, document management and expense tracking, with a published per user rate.

Time capture is the function everything else depends on, and it is where firms lose money invisibly. A lawyer who reconstructs their day at six in the evening will under record, because short calls and brief document reviews are genuinely forgotten, and in a business that sells hours that lost time is lost revenue that never appears in any report. Capturing time as work happens is worth more than any efficiency elsewhere in the billing chain.

The client portal addresses the other end. Fee disputes usually come from surprise rather than disagreement about rates, and a client able to see time recorded as a matter progresses is far less likely to challenge the invoice when it arrives.

Publishing a per user rate matters in a market dominated by small firms. A four partner practice does not run procurement and will not sit through a demo to learn a price, so a listed monthly figure with an annual discount is what allows them to decide. Case management, calendaring and document management extend the same record, so the matter and its billing stay together.