Rocket Matter

JULY 11, 2023

Just like all professional expects to be paid correctly and in full for their services, lawyers should be paid for their billable time. But if that’s the case, then why are so many lawyers undercharging their clients and losing billable time? Why do lawyers lose billable time ALL the time?

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Rocket Matter

MAY 16, 2023

Watch out for these five common time and billing mistakes Lawyers often focus so much on billable hours that the non-billable administrative tasks may fall by the wayside. So let’s avoid all that mess, and take a look at how NOT to bill time for clients. Your clients and your accounting team will thank you!

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Rocket Matter

MAY 30, 2023

Lawyers have to think beyond the billable hours they put into specific client matters. Lawyers who wait until the end of the day to track time can lose 10% of their billable time through inaccurate tracking. It’s also critical to understand how much time it takes for paralegals and administrative staff to complete their casework.

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 7, 2023

This is especially true in the legal industry, where lawyers, paralegals, and other industry professionals deal with a significant amount of paperwork and documentation. Document management is essential to staying organized and on top of your caseload (without sacrificing billable hours or layering on unnecessary work).

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Rocket Matter

JANUARY 30, 2024

Resistance to process change is real, especially among lawyers, who are masters at being analytical skeptics. Yet the hurdles and objections voiced by lawyers are real concerns, even when it comes to proven tactics for increasing efficiency and profitability like time-tracking. Or in the courthouse?

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Rocket Matter

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Billable hours are the basis of most legal fee calculations, and putting in enough billable hours is essential to the profitability of law firms—that’s why they generally seek to maximize the number of billable hours that associates and partners put in. Some firms have a billable rate for key support staff, such as paralegals.

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Rocket Matter

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Part of your job as a leader of a law firm is to make attorneys’ jobs as frictionless as possible. If lawyers are jotting down their hours on sticky notes, it’s taking up time and energy—as opposed to starting the clock on their time-tracking software with a click.

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Rocket Matter

JULY 18, 2023

Lawyers who go out on their own usually do so because they want the buck to stop with them. Instead of spending hours at the end of each month gathering receipts, sticky notes, index cards, emails, and phone logs, solo lawyers who use a practice management solution with time-tracking capabilities can create and deliver invoices in minutes.

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Rocket Matter

MAY 2, 2023

Yeah… it hasn’t been quite the same in many professional services sectors like law. Legal industry professionals can be averse to change. Because their jobs often come with steep consequences for missteps, lawyers are almost never the first to jump on any bandwagon. Choosing an online storage provider 4.

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Rocket Matter

AUGUST 12, 2022

One of the most important responsibilities as a lawyer is to hit all the filing deadlines. That means you need a legal calendaring system that makes it easy for you to efficiently encourage collaboration and manage your court deadlines. Powerful legal calendar tools let you assign tasks to your team from inside the calendar.

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