For solo lawyers and small firms
Time tracking built by a lawyer.
I've billed by the hour since 2003.
My first trial paid $10,000 and took eighteen months. When I finally ran the numbers, it had paid me about $15 an hour. A2.Time grew out of the spreadsheet I built after that, and the law firm I ran on it. It turns your calendar into a timesheet, organized by matter, so the hours you work are the hours you bill.
$19 per user per month. Full refund if you cancel within 14 days.
The problem
Three ways a practice leaks money without anyone noticing.
01.
Hours that never reach the invoice.
A call that ran long, a review on the train home, twenty minutes on a client's email at 10 pm. You mean to log them later. At the end of the month you reconstruct the week from memory, and you round down, because you can't prove the rest.
02.
Fixed fees priced from memory.
I once agreed to file a client's company for liquidation at a fixed fee. We'd done dozens like it. It turned into a full bankruptcy proceeding: hundreds of hours we never recovered. If I'd looked at what similar matters had actually cost us, I'd have quoted it differently, or written the scope differently.
03.
Fees you can't defend.
A client questions an invoice. In-house counsel asks for a breakdown. A court reviews a fee award. If your record is a total and a vague description, you're negotiating. If it's dated, line-by-line time on the matter, you're showing evidence.
How it works
Your calendar already knows what you did today.
Step 1
Connect your calendar.
Google Calendar or Outlook. A2.Time drafts a time entry for each meeting, hearing, call and work block you already schedule.
Step 2
Assign and approve.
Match entries to the client and matter. AI suggests the match; you decide. Edit, split or approve in a batch. Nothing counts until you approve it.
Step 3
Report and invoice by matter.
Billing reports and invoices per client or agreement, with dates, durations and descriptions, in PDF or XLS. Something a client's accounts team or in-house counsel can read line by line.
What you get
The parts of a practice-management system you actually use.
Matters, organized your way.
Projects carry the client, the fee arrangement and the practice area, so hourly, fixed-fee and retainer work sit side by side.
Rates that match your engagements.
A default hourly rate for each person, and a custom rate on any matter where you've agreed a different one.
Your billing rules.
Time rounding, locked periods once a month is invoiced, and multiple currencies.
Fixed-fee matters, measured.
Track time on flat-fee work too, and see the realization rate per client and matter, so the next quote is based on what this kind of work really costs.
Non-billable time.
Business development, training, admin. Tracking it is how you learn what your practice costs to run.
For the whole team.
Partners see where the firm's time goes and approve the team's entries from any device.
From lawyers who use it
Records that hold up.
"We've been using the system for almost a year. In one matter, the detailed time report was a real help: it let us defend the legal costs the court had awarded us on appeal."
Sergey Andreev
Attorney
"I've been using A2.Time for over six months. The system lets me generate reports for an agreement in a few clicks and send them to a client. The reporting feature helps me analyze the quality of services delivered, project costs, and each assistant's efficiency. I never thought project management could be this easy."
Fedor Sirosh
Attorney
For small firms
Partners use it to see where the firm's time goes.
"I know how much time tracking matters to a law firm's economics, its analytics and its reporting to clients. Still, I'll admit we tracked project time in Excel for a very long time, while trying out time trackers and CRMs on the side. Then we found A2.Time. What we need from a time tracker is simple. Tracking time shouldn't take much time, and most CRMs are a nightmare at that. It should work with the tools we already use instead of replacing them. And several people should be able to log time on the same project and produce a clean report on our letterhead, which is painful in Excel. A2.Time does all three, and we've used it for project time for several months now."
Dmitry Malinin
Chairman, Yurproekt Bar Association
"We've used the system for a little under a year. The interface is convenient, the menus are clear, and anyone can pick it up. Special thanks to the support team for sorting out small issues so quickly."
Veronika Burmistrova
Assistant to the CEO, Lexfor Law Firm
"We started using A2.Time in September 2020, after a presentation and a close look at what it could do. It lived up to our expectations: the interface is simple, and the structure is logical and intuitive. You don't need to study manuals or call support, but when we do have a question, we get a quick answer. We use A2.Time for time and expenses. It has given us a clearer picture of each person's workload, cut the time it takes to prepare client reports significantly, and improved how we run projects. The product and the team are a pleasure to work with."
Anastasia Semchenko
Managing Partner, Semchenko & Partners
Why a lawyer built this
I ran law firms on this discipline before it was a product.
By 2005 I was logging every hour in a spreadsheet: date, client, matter, hours, description, rate. Later I co-founded a corporate law firm and grew it to 25 people, and every pricing and hiring decision came from that time data. Before A2.Time I built A2.Legal, practice-management software for lawyers. A2.Time is the part that mattered most, made simple enough for a solo practice.
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Questions lawyers ask.
Pricing
Simple pricing.
I use this tool myself. It costs you what I would want to pay.
Monthly
For freelancers who want to try it, month to month. Cancel anytime.
- ✓Unlimited calendar integrations
- ✓AI client and project matching
- ✓Batch time approval
- ✓XLS/PDF exports
- ✓Email support
Lifetime
Pay once. Use it as long as A2.Time exists. This is the offer I'd have chosen when I first started my firm.
One-time, non-refundable payment.
- ✓Unlimited calendar integrations
- ✓AI client and project matching
- ✓Batch time approval
- ✓XLS/PDF exports
- ✓Email support
- ✓Priority support
Annual
Save 21% by committing for a year. Same tool, cheaper if you know you'll keep using it.
- ✓Unlimited calendar integrations
- ✓AI client and project matching
- ✓Batch time approval
- ✓XLS/PDF exports
- ✓Email support
All prices are per user. Monthly and annual plans are charged by PayPal when you sign up. If A2.Time isn't what I say it is, email me at ma@a2time.com within 14 days and I'll refund your first monthly or annual payment in full, personally. The lifetime plan is non-refundable.
Field notes
On pricing and defending your time.
How to Document Your Work and Justify Your Fees
Clear, consistent records get invoices approved faster and protect you when a fee is disputed.
ReadHow a Freelancer Should Price the Work
Value sets the ceiling, time sets the floor.
ReadHow to Split Money in a Partnership
Eat-what-you-kill, lock-step, and the formula, and how to choose between them.
ReadSee what your matters actually cost.
Connect your calendar and look at last month with A2.Time. Pay by PayPal today; cancel within 14 days and I'll refund you in full.