Billable accuracy
Keep a more trustworthy record of legal work
Quick entry and later edits help lawyers capture the day more accurately even when work changes shape quickly.
Free time tracking for lawyers who need precise billable records
Timen helps lawyers and legal teams capture billable work, keep time tied to the right client, matter, or project, review detailed records before they go out, and move into invoicing with less cleanup.
Why legal teams choose free timekeeping software
Legal work needs accurate time records, clean reporting, and a billing process that feels dependable. Timen keeps those parts close together without creating a more complicated daily workflow.
Client clarity
Tie each hour to the right client and project
That makes later review cleaner when the time needs to be checked, summarized, or shared in a client-facing format.
Cleaner billing
Move into invoices from the same reviewed data
Reporting and invoicing stay close enough together that billing does not start with rebuilding the time again elsewhere.
Time tracking and manual entry
Capture billable legal work while the day is moving
Legal work often jumps between calls, drafting, revisions, and quick follow-ups that are easy to forget if time tracking is too slow.
Timen keeps tracking fast enough for live use and flexible enough for later corrections when the day was too fragmented to log perfectly in real time.
That helps the final record stay more dependable.
Clients, matters, and projects
Keep client work organized enough to review later
Legal teams need more than a total number of hours. They also need a cleaner sense of which client, matter, or project the time belongs to when review or billing starts.
Timen keeps that context attached to the work from the start, which makes later reporting and invoicing much easier to trust.
It is a practical way to keep legal time more readable.
Detailed time tracking reports
Review the exact entries behind the billed hours
Detailed reports matter when legal time needs a closer review before it becomes client-facing.
Timen makes it easier to move from totals into the exact entries behind them, which helps legal teams answer questions before they become billing problems.
That gives you a clearer view of the underlying work instead of relying on totals alone.
Legal invoicing
Turn reviewed work into invoices with less risk of duplication
Once the time is checked, legal billing should not depend on rebuilding the same record again somewhere else.
Timen keeps invoice creation close to the time and reports that support it, while also keeping invoiced work visible so the same hours are easier to avoid billing twice.
That makes the billing workflow cleaner and easier to trust.
How legal teams use Timen from time entry to billing
Track the work, keep the right client context attached, review the exact entries behind the totals, and invoice from a cleaner record once the hours are ready.
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Set up clients, matters, and projects
Keep work organized from the first entry so legal time stays easier to review later.
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Track live or reconstruct the day
Use live tracking when possible and edit later when the day moved too quickly for perfect tracking.
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Review the detailed entries
Check what sits behind the totals before the hours become client-facing or invoice-ready.
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Invoice from reviewed work
Move into billing from the same record and keep invoiced work visible inside the workflow.
What Timen does not do for law firms
Legal timekeeping has requirements most general time trackers do not meet, and finding that out after moving is expensive. Timen is a free time tracking and billing tool, not legal practice management.
Not included
LEDES export and UTBMS codes
If your clients are insurers or corporate legal departments that require LEDES-formatted invoices with UTBMS task codes, Timen cannot produce them and you need practice management software that can.
Not included
Trust accounting and IOLTA
Client trust funds have rules that vary by jurisdiction and real consequences for getting them wrong. Timen does not touch trust accounting, and that is the correct answer rather than a gap we intend to fill quietly.
Not included
Conflict checking
There is no conflicts database and no new-matter intake screening. Firms that need conflict checks at intake should expect to run them elsewhere.
Works differently
Six-minute increment rounding
Timen records the time actually worked rather than rounding it up. If your firm bills in tenths of an hour, that rounding is something you apply while reviewing entries, not something the tool does for you.
Who it does fit: solo practitioners and small firms billing hourly to private clients, where the job is capturing legal work accurately as the day moves and turning reviewed time recording into an invoice. If that is the shape of your practice, free legal time tracking without a practice-management subscription is a reasonable trade. If you need LEDES or trust accounting, it is not.
Frequently asked questions
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Yes. Timen supports time tracking, detailed review, reporting, and invoicing in a workflow that works well for billable client work.
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Yes. Clients, matters, and projects stay connected to the tracked work so the billing record is easier to review and explain.
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Yes. Detailed reports help you move from totals into the underlying entries when the record needs a closer review.
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Yes. Timen lets you fix entries later when the workday made real-time tracking imperfect.
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Yes. Timen tracks which work has already been invoiced, which makes duplicate billing easier to avoid.
Is Timen suitable for legal billing workflows?
Can I keep time tied to the right client, matter, or project?
Can I inspect exact entries before billing?
Can I correct time after the fact?
Can Timen help avoid billing the same time twice?
Keep legal time tracking and billing on a cleaner path
Capture billable work, review the exact records behind it, and invoice from the same workflow instead of cleaning up the same time data twice.