A law firm economics instrument

What does six minutes cost your firm?

Estimate the gross billable value that may go unrecorded when attorneys reconstruct their day after the work is done. Use your own rates, calendar, and capture assumptions.

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One missed six-minute entry at $425 is $42.50 of gross billable value.

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No names, emails, or client details are requested. The estimate runs in your browser.

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How should missed time be modeled?

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Gross billable value that may go unrecorded

12 hours of time per working week under these assumptions.

Estimated missed gross billable value by period
PeriodEstimated value
Weekly $5,100
Monthly average $20,400
Annual $244,800

How the estimate is calculated

  1. Missed hours per week8 timekeepers × 3 increments × 0.1 hour × 5 days = 12 hours
  2. Weekly value12 hours × $425 = $5,100
  3. Annual value$5,100 × 48 working weeks = $244,800
  4. Monthly average$244,800 ÷ 12 months = $20,400

This is an estimate based only on the assumptions you enter. It models gross billable value, not amounts invoiced, realized, collected, or recoverable. TimeSentry does not guarantee recovered time or revenue.

Read the number correctly

An opportunity estimate, not a forecast.

What it includes

Timekeepers, a blended billable rate, your work calendar, and one explicit assumption about uncaptured time.

What it leaves out

Realization, collection, write-offs, contingent matters, alternative fee arrangements, taxes, and the professional judgment required to decide whether work is billable.

Why the formula is visible

You should be able to challenge every assumption. Change any input and the formula trail updates with the estimate.

From estimate to evidence

Let the work create the first draft of time.

TimeSentry uses activity evidence to compose time entries for review. Your firm remains in control of what is approved and billed.

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