Track everything from anywhere
Capture time and track expenses anytime, anywhere with the software that’s trusted by thousands of Canadian legal professionals.
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Record all your work
Account for everything using Clio’s time tracking software for lawyers. Add time entries directly from calendar events, tasks, communication logs, notes, and documents.
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Record in real-time
Use a running clock when you start a job. Pause or stop the timer when you’re interrupted or have finished your task.
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Track time from your inbox
As you send and receive emails, instantly add time entries for the time spent communicating with clients directly from Outlook or Gmail.
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Add time entries from your phone
Track time and expenses while on-the-go via Clio’s mobile app. Enter time manually, duplicate a past entry, or use the in-app timer.
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Enter time and bill for it effortlessly
Track hours in real time to increase your cash flow. Reduce legal billing disputes by accurately recording detailed time entries in our legal timekeeping and expense tracking software.
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Review and adjust time entries with ease
Correct or add time entries after the fact. For example, if you’ve accidentally forgotten to start a timer, or left a timer on, you can add or subtract minutes as needed to ensure every time entry is accurate.
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Set customized rates
Attach custom rates to certain time entries, matters, clients, activity categories, or users. Automatically round time entries to the increment that makes sense for your firm.
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Get paid 39% faster
Clio’s law firm time tracking software creates time entries that appear on your bills with a single click. Easily share invoices with clients and accept online credit card payments all within Clio.
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Know where your time and money is going
Make better decisions, make more money. Use Clio’s legal timekeeping software to analyze staff and firm performance with ease.
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Understand where your time goes
Attach UTBMS codes as you create time and expense entries to benchmark your performance and further improve billing.
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Quantify non-billable hours
Mark time entries as billable or non-billable. Track non-billable time against contingency or flat fee matters to ensure your law firm is taking on profitable work.
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Track expenses with a few clicks
Log hard or soft cost expenses. Remove the need for expense recategorization, maintain accurate financial records, and simplify year-end reconciliations.
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Get insights you can use
Produce quick and up-to-date reports from all of the time and expense entries across your firm. Filter and group time entry metrics by date, matter, user, or status.
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Calendaring
Meet every deadline with legal-specific features like automatic court date scheduling.
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Case Management
Stay organized and access the information you need—from anywhere, at any time.
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Artificial Intelligence
Work smarter with AI: Turn routine work into completed actions—built right into Clio.
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Client Management
Easily organize contact details, documents, and communication logs from intake to invoice.
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Law Firm Reporting
Unlock deeper insights with custom reports in Clio Manage. Filter, group, preview, and schedule reports that align with how your law firm works—faster.
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Task Management
Manage firm productivity by assigning and tracking task completion.
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Billing
Create custom bill plans based on fee structure and reduce manual data entry. Bill via email or our secure client portal. Leverage legal AI to generate bills automatically and route them to the right approvers.
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Online Payments
Make it easy to pay and get paid with online payments.
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Law Firm Communications
Manage client and firm communication all on one platform.
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Document Management
Edit, store, and organize your legal documents securely, from anywhere.
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Client Portal
Enable clients to securely communicate and collaborate with their lawyer from desktop or mobile.
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Trust Account Management Software
Simplify legal trust account management with Clio and stay compliant with Canadian regulations.
Legal timekeeping software FAQs
What is legal time tracking software?
Legal time tracking software is a tool that allows you to input, categorize, and record the time spent on tasks at work.
Lawyers generally work on multiple matters for multiple clients in a day. Trying to remember billable hours at the end of the day (or more realistically, at the end of the month) can mean work doesn’t always make it on the invoice. Legal time and expense tracking software helps eliminate uncertainty when you track work in real time. No more overcharges or missed billables.
Book a demoCan I add time for other users at my firm with timekeeping software for lawyers?
Yes. Any user can add or edit time entries on behalf of another user. Simply select their name from the Time Entry dropdown list. See how
I prefer to enter time entries on a weekly or monthly basis. How can I use lawyer time tracking software?
You can create, edit, and delete time entries at any time.
When you create entries after the fact, you can review all of the calendar entries, documents, and notes stored in Clio, and add time entries instantly from there.
Can I adjust time entries when approving a bill?
Yes. When generating a bill, all time entries appear in an editable format that can be adjusted before sending to a client. See it in action.
What are the different ways I can use legal time management software to add time entries to a bill?
There are five different ways to use Clio’s time management software for lawyers to add time entries into your billing system:
- Use the time entry form
- Start a timer
- Add time entries from a document, note, calendar event, or client communication
- Use Clio’s mobile app
- Use an integration to add entries from your other software
Can I customize the rates I bill clients for different types of time entries?
Yes. In Clio’s time and expense tracking software, you can create User Default Rates, Matter Rates, Client Rates, and Custom Rates.
These rates have a hierarchy so that if there is a situation where there is conflicting rates, then one rate will override all others. Here’s the order of the hierarchy:
- Flat Activity Description Rate
- Matter Based Rate
- Client Based Rate
- Custom Hourly Activity Description Rate
- User Default Rate
For descriptions of each rate, read this Help Center article.
How does Clio’s legal time tracking and billing software help reduce revenue leakage?
Clio’s time tracking and billing software allows you to capture time and track expenses from anywhere, at any time.
This helps reduce revenue leakage as you capture all billable hours from where they are recorded, lessen legal billing disputes thanks to accurate records and detailed time entries, see where time slips through the cracks, and analyze your staff and firm performance to make data-driven decisions.
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