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Time approvals, timesheets and targets

Approve late time, run timesheet submission where the firm uses it, and see each fee earner against target.

Late time

Time recorded after the firm's window waits under Time, Approvals, Late entries for the matter's partner or the fee earner's supervisor. Approve it, or reject it with a reason; the fee earner is told either way.

Time recorded late, waiting for a partner's approval.
Time recorded late, waiting for approval.

Timesheets

Where the firm asks for them, each fee earner submits the week's time as a timesheet, and a supervisor approves it under Timesheets.

This week's timesheet on My time shows the week against your target: the time recorded and chargeable, the entries, and the working days that passed with nothing recorded. Each day of the week shows what it holds against what it asks, and why a day asks nothing (a weekend, a firm closure or your leave). Fill in the week opens the week grid on it, and Submit week puts it forward.

Targets

Set daily and weekly targets per grade or per person under Settings, Time recording, Targets.

  • Each fee earner sees today, this week and this month against target on their own My time.
  • Time, Team shows everyone a supervisor supervises, with utilisation: chargeable hours over the hours available. Select a person's row to open their time for the period, with the same figures and every entry they recorded.
  • A working day with no time recorded prompts a reminder to the fee earner.

Unbilled time

Time, Unbilled lists the chargeable time not yet on a bill, by matter, as the matter's work in progress. Time that is not chargeable is never counted here.

  • Select a row to open the matter's time, narrowed to what is unbilled.
  • Start pre-bill in a row's menu gathers the matter's unbilled work into a pre-bill.
  • Start a batch starts pre-bills for many matters at once.

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