Laurel
Automatic timekeeping for lawyers and accountants, reconstructing billable hours from what you actually did.
Highlights
- Time Composer™️: Automatically tracks and logs billable activities, ensuring no time is lost.
- Smart Work Coding™️: Categorizes and organizes work tasks for more precise billing.
- Automated Timekeeping: Reduces the need for manual time entry, saving hours of administrative work.
- Seamless Integration: Integrates with existing tools and workflows for smooth implementation.
- Real-Time Updates: Provides real-time tracking and updates, ensuring accuracy and up-to-date information.
- User-Friendly Interface: Easy to use, with intuitive navigation and minimal learning curve.
- Enhanced Accuracy: Ensures more accurate time tracking and billing, reducing errors and disputes.
- Scalability: Suitable for firms of all sizes, from small practices to large enterprises.
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About Laurel
What it is
Laurel watches the work a fee earner does across their applications and turns it into timesheet entries — tracking billable activity, categorising it against matters and clients, and producing entries without anyone typing them. It is aimed squarely at law firms and accountancy practices, where time recording is both the revenue mechanism and the most hated part of the day.
Why it's different
The problem is worth understanding, because it is larger than it sounds. Time reconstructed at the end of a week is systematically under-recorded — people forget, round down and omit the short tasks entirely — and firms lose real revenue to it. Automating capture at the moment of work addresses the actual cause. The cost is surveillance, and it should be named plainly: this works by monitoring what professionals do all day, and partners enthusiastic about the recovered revenue are not usually the ones being watched. Introducing it without being straight about that is how it gets resented and worked around.
How people use it
Firms adopt it to raise realisation rates rather than to save time, and the number that justifies it is recovered billable hours. The normal pattern is that the system drafts entries and the fee earner reviews and releases them, which keeps professional judgement over what is actually billable. That review step is worth insisting on, since the difference between work done and work a client should pay for is not something software can determine.
Written by the n3os team. We are not affiliated with Laurel.
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