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Timekeeping
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Horizons
Improve Timekeeping and Profitable Delivery with Intapp Time
Recording time and capturing all billable work is a challenge for many lawyers, and failure to accurately do so can result in a loss in revenue for the firm. “If…
Schneiders & Associates Blog
Meal Period Timekeeping – California Supreme Court says “No” to Rounding?
Many employers use rounding to adjust an employee’s work hours to the nearest whole time increment, such as five or ten minutes. Employers beware! However, in a newly published decision,…
Labor & Employment Law Perspectives
Punching in for the Next Round of Meal Period Class Actions in California: California Supreme Court Strikes Down Use of Rounding Time Punches for Meal Periods
By Kevin Jackson, Sara Alexis Levine Abarbanel
The practice of “rounding” time punches—adjusting the hours that an employee has actually worked to the nearest preset time increment—is generally lawful where it does not result in, over time,…
Aileen Leventon Blog
Timekeeping with Jenny Anne Horst-Martz
Law firms have metrics like any other services business: productivity, utilization, profitability. Their base rate increases on these metrics. But if timekeeping practices are deficient, the metrics won’t present an…
Aileen Leventon Blog
Until the AI Revolution Disrupts Timekeeping, Make the Most of Phase Codes
It seems as if useful artificial intelligence (AI) that would improve the business of law has been just around the corner forever. Great strides have been made in AI, particularly…
Horizons
Better timekeeping helps firms win more business
In the wake of the Great Recession (from 2007-2009), many companies undertook a number of cost-saving measures to reduce legal spending. These initiatives included moving legal services in-house, using alternative…
The Law for Lawyers Today
Overbilling based on reconstructed time charges leads to suspension for Bay State lawyer
By Karen Rubin
If you’re making a New Year’s resolution to improve your time-keeping and billing habits, you can draw inspiration from this cautionary tale, detailing how a Massachusetts lawyer, a partner at a…
Horizons
What can true AI do for timekeeping?
By Laura Chu
While most law firms have adopted some level of automation regarding fee earner timekeeping, these simple point-tool solutions solve only a narrow aspect of time entry. Intelligent time-capture technology using…
Aileen Leventon Blog
Until the AI revolution disrupts timekeeping, make the most of phase codes.
Read the article in the Spring 2019 ILTA Peer-to- Peer Publication, written by my co-author, Jenny Anne Horst-Martz and I. http://epubs.iltanet.org/i/1097368-spring-2019/26?_ga=2.227676318.2033492771.1554617133-1579139434.1554617133
Aileen Leventon Blog
Until the AI revolution disrupts timekeeping, make the most of phase codes.
copyright © 2020 by Aileen LeventonFollow AileenLogin / Sign upAileen R. LeventonApr 7, 20191 min read