Law Firms Bill More with Dynamic Connect Time Finder
As digital activities continue to drive the daily tasks of legal firms, the time associated with writing emails, making calls, and editing PDFs is often overlooked for billing to the detriment of a firm’s bottom line. According to Dynamic Connect platform Manager, Derek Lawton, this is primarily because firms are unaware that a comprehensive software solution can make this happen.
“It is no secret that with so many digital tools now at their disposal, lawyers are increasingly editing PDFs, corresponding via emails, and placing calls using Microsoft Teams, 3CX and the like when dealing with client matters.
“However, not all the time associated with these activities is being recouped because lawyers may forget to allocate the transaction as a billable item on their timesheet or may not even deem it billable.
“Firms are also missing out on time revenue simply because they may not be across the quality solutions available to them to capture and allocate all of this time for billing,” explains Derek.
The marketplace does offer numerous digital solutions that practices can implement to help them record the time associated with digital activity. Yet, many of these have limitations. They may not pro-actively prompt staff to capture the time associated with a digital activity and require manual input, which can be problematic. Or the solution may only capture the time spent on some types of digital related activities and not others.
“To ensure that they are recovering billable hours associated with digital activity, legal practices should consider wholistic, pro-active solutions such as Dynamic Connect’s Time Finder, which seamlessly integrates with a firm’s existing billing system,” says Derek.
Dynamic Connect from Dynamic Software Solutions is a leading cloud-based platform that provides legal firms with integrated time billing via Time Finder to help them bill time, streamline processes, save time, and improve productivity.
Activity-based Time-billing
Easy to integrate, Time Finder automatically pops up during monitored digital activity regardless of whether staff are making calls, working on PDFs, or sending emails, and posts the activity directly to the relevant matter within the Practice Management System as a time entry for billing and cost recovery.
In addition, the solution captures the time taken whether staff are working in the office, from home or remotely.
Pro-active Time-billing
Further, “Time Finder can pro-actively prompt staff or it can be set to capture activity to a diary view where staff can pick, and post entries as required. For firms that cost recover, we can enable billing for cost and time so that staff bill both the cost of printing as well as the time taken to draft the document being printed.
“So, lawyers no longer need to fret over or waste their valuable time completing timesheets at the end of the day or week. The prompts ensure the timesheet is completed quickly and timely so that they are free to focus on their core work,” says Derek.
Time Finder effortlessly and reliably helps fee earners bill more time based on real-time activity so that firms can invoice their clients with accuracy and without forgoing revenue.
“Time Finder works quietly and efficiently in the background,” says Derek. “Its robust, time-billing capability ensures digital activity is being posted for billing to build revenue and save precious time.”
About Dynamic Software Solutions
Dynamic Connect is a suite of solutions developed and supported by Dynamic Software Solutions. Dynamic Software Solutions is part of the broader Dynamic Supplies group of companies that specialise in distribution, software and logistics, with more than 200 staff and 10 branches across Australia and New Zealand.
Dynamic Software Solutions offers a range of IT solutions, including office productivity, remote monitoring, print management, cost recovery, document capture, and sustainability programs. These solutions are designed to help end-users operate with greater efficiency, saving them both time and money.
