WorkMonitor for law firms
Billable hours a client cannot argue with
Time reconstructed from the work itself rather than from Friday afternoon memory, with a certificate the client verifies independently and privilege kept out of the record.
Free for two seats, no card.
Legal
What changes at a firm
Pick a line and the page it happens on opens on the right.
Rollout
Putting a firm’s billables on a defensible footing
- 1
Take privilege out of scope
Deny-list the systems that hold privileged material on the device, so the question of what was captured has the answer "nothing".
- 2
Reconstruct the day, do not recall it
The activity timeline lays the session out in order, so a billable narrative starts from the record rather than from Friday afternoon.
- 3
Map time to matters
Projects, clients and rate cards per matter and per role, with budget burn visible while the matter is still running.
- 4
Review, then release the proof
Selective disclosure means the certificate shows what you choose. Review before it reaches the client, and nothing else goes with it.
A narrative the client argues with vs. a record they can check
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Where billables come from
With WorkMonitor
A day reconstruction built as the work happened, reviewed rather than recalled.
Firm billing today
Reconstructed at the end of the week, from a calendar and recollection.
The client’s challenge
With WorkMonitor
A certificate they verify on a public page, showing only the fields disclosed.
Firm billing today
A line-by-line query, answered with a longer narrative.
Privilege
With WorkMonitor
Deny-listed on the device. Never captured, so never disclosable by accident.
Firm billing today
Captured and then hidden, which means it was captured.
Matter budgets
With WorkMonitor
Burn-down against the rate card while the matter is live.
Firm billing today
Known when the matter closes.
Who read the file
With WorkMonitor
A hash-chained data-access log covering every look, including partners and administrators.
Firm billing today
No record of internal access at all.
Retention
With WorkMonitor
Retention windows, erasure and subject-access handling as configured features.
Firm billing today
Everything kept, because deleting is work.
What a firm gets to work with
- Projects, clients, tasks & budgets (rate cards, burn)
Ask AI
Ask AI about the billing period
Answers built from reconstructed activity, matter mapping and the approval chain.
Pick a question above and WorkMonitor AI will answer from your team's real numbers.
The status meeting, already written
Status is normally assembled by asking. Here it is already: hours, activity, attendance and risk on one board, for one person or the whole company. Set the thresholds once and it tells you who needs you.
Jobs to be done
The jobs a firm runs here
- Bill defendable client hoursBudgets that burn down while you can still move somebody, rate-card billing off captured hours, and an invoice the client verifies without asking you for anything.
- Prove work with certificatesA finalized invoice mints a signed certificate the client checks for themselves. Selective disclosure proves the work without handing over the work.
- Track time automaticallyNo timer to start, no Friday reconstruction. Idle is split out rather than estimated, and approved hours reach payroll and invoicing without a re-key.
- Monitor legally & stay compliantVersioned consent, a capture scope that cannot quietly widen, retention and DSAR handling, and written guidance for 32 jurisdictions before you roll out in one.
Where you operate
Privilege and monitoring law, by jurisdiction
- United KingdomThe ICO's 2023 monitoring guidance is the operative document, and it expects a DPIA.
- United States (federal)Federal law is permissive; the real constraints are state law and the NLRA.
- GermanyThe works council holds a veto, and a productivity dashboard is enough to trigger it.
- FranceConsult the CSE first. Skipping it is the criminal offence of obstruction.
- IrelandThe DPC accepts a legitimate business interest, and then tests proportionality hard.
- Canada (federal)Reasonableness is the statutory test, and the OPC applies a four-part necessity analysis.
Straight answers
The questions we would ask in your position
Every answer here is the one you would get on a call. Open as many as you like; they stay open, so two can be held side by side.
Per-app deny-lists are enforced by the agent on the device, before anything is transmitted, so a named document management system or client portal produces no capture, no screenshot, no window title. Nothing is collected and then filtered, which means there is no copy that could be disclosed.
No. It attests that a period of work occurred and what it covered; it is not a screenshot bundle and carries no matter content. The verifier answers whether the attestation holds, which is what a billing dispute needs and nothing beyond it.
No. Matters and rates come from the system you already run; WorkMonitor supplies the activity record that makes the hours defendable and the export that carries approved time back out over the v1 API.
Lead with the recovery. Most resistance to timekeeping is about reconstruction effort rather than oversight, and a day you can replay is less work than a day you have to remember, which is also where the written-off hours come back from. The self-view and the appeal route settle the rest, and privileged systems are deny-listed before anything is captured.
Nearby
Teams with the same problem, from another angle
Take these with you
The software is the easy part of a rollout
Here is what we would send a manager doing one for the first time: how to read a productivity number, what to say to a remote team before anything is installed, and a policy you can adopt as written.
Point it at one team for a week.
Create the account, put the agent on a handful of desks, and leave it alone. On Friday you read the week instead of reconstructing it: hours against their projects, focus and idle per person, and the timesheets already filled in.
Free for two seats. No card, and no sales call to sit through.