Here is a little known trick (and a kind of neat one too) with regards to the time entry screens in LAWTRAC 3.0+


If you are wondering if perhaps you already reported the time or activity against the matter record click the View Summary link.


The top area will refresh to reveal the total time reported against the matter for the entire legal department and the total time you have reported for the life of the matter, the current month and the current week.


This will help everyone maintain good data in LAWTRAC.

The time accounting screen within the matter record has received a make-over which will help make the data more usefull.


The screen is split into two sections. The default listing will have a break-down of date entries [A] in chronological order while the right side [B] will display the total hours as reported for the top level business unit.


Clicking a person's name will refresh the right side to reveal the time entries for that person [C]. If you would like to see the details of the time as reported for the activity click the LEDES code and that list [D] will be shown.

For those who charge-back staff time to other business units within the company there is a great report that can take the time accounting entries and create the "bill".


Located in Reports the TMG005 Report (Time Accounting Charge-Back Utility) will use your internal staff rates and export the data to Excel.