In response to this huge loss of billable work which is estimated as much as $3.7 Billion across small law in Australia, Smokeball has created AutoTime, an automated time and activity tool which is integrated into Smokeball’s practice management software. More than one-quarter of respondents who use the tool estimated it gave them back around two hours or more per day, enabling them to bill more hours per day without charging their clients more (due to increased productivity), and equating to average additional billings of $137,000 per fee earner per year.
With AutoTime, Smokeball tracks all activity performed on a case, timing it to the second and associating it with the case – every email drafted, every document created or reviewed, every task, event, message and even data entry is tracked for every user, on every case, every day – without timers, timesheets, or any human interaction. AutoTime captures all these interactions, adds them up and bills in one clean time entry per day. This data is the key to all firms increasing their billings.
Smokeball is dedicated to helping small law firms solve their billing problem. This is our mission. We are not going to stop until we see small law firms billing appropriately for their services, becoming better businesses, and ultimately helping the communities they support to thrive.