The following testimonial is from Stu Kertzer, attorney. Stu can be reached at “TWrex@aol.com”.
I've been practicing law for 22 years. Only a small proportion of my
caseload involves hourly billing. For those cases requiring hourly billing,
I have been using another program called TimeSlips™ which works very nicely.
However, it is feature rich and for a small solo practitioner rendering only
an occasional hourly bill, it is like using the proverbial elephant gun to
kill a flea. For those of you who need to keep track of time, TimeTracker
does that very nicely. When you start a job, you open a TimeTracker sheet
for that account. Then you press "Start" to begin timing a work session.
You can shrink the window to an tiny box which can be tucked away in the
background in a corner of your screen. Need to pause? Click "Pause." To
resume, click "Resume." When it's time to stop, click "Stop." The next time
you click "Start" TimeTracker will make a new entry in its main time-tracking
window. It has recently been upgraded to permit the export of your entries
including the total time and total amount billed (you set your hourly rate in
advance) and you can then import the information into your word processor,
convert the text to a table (Microsoft Word does this for you with a single menu
selection) and you have a nearly instant bill. Just add your letterhead.
You can annotate each of your time entries so that you know what you did
during that period. The annotation will also be exported if you like and can
be placed in your bill. If you have Quickeys™, you can make various
quickeys to enter text into the annotation field which describes your most
routine jobs. I have mine set to hit "command-t" and "Telephone conference"
is typed into the notation window.
Recently I used Timetracker on my powerbook during a deposition in which the attorney for the defense would take upward of 5 minutes thumbing through his papers between each of his
questions. After a few hours, I confronted him with my Timetracker list of how much time he had wasted between questions and threatened to present the list to the judge unless he considerably increased his speed. The rest of the deposition took 20 minutes. TimeTracker is a versatile program, elegant in its simplicity and adaptability (a la QuickDex™) and well worth the shareware fee. Everyone who ever had to keep track of time for any reason
