Time tracking software for law firms.
Record time against the matter, let CasEngine draft the narrative from what you actually did, and catch the vague entries before they are billed rather than after they are written off.
It is Friday afternoon, and eleven days of work have to be reconstructed from a calendar and a sent-items folder.
What gets written down is what can be remembered, which is always less than what was done. And the narratives that do get written — “review and correspondence”, “attendance upon client” — are precisely the ones a client's billing team strikes through months later, when the work is too old to argue for.
From the work done to the line on the invoice.
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Record it against the matter as the work happens
Time is logged to the matter, case, project or enquiry it belongs to, marked billable or not — and non-billable time carries a type, so the firm can see where it actually goes rather than only how much of it there was.
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The system already knows what you did
For any period, CasEngine assembles your actual recorded activity — hearings attended, documents filed, correspondence, tasks completed — scoped to the matter in question. The raw material for the narrative already exists; nobody has to remember it.
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The narrative drafts itself from that activity
The description is written from what the record shows happened, rather than from a blank box at the end of the week. You edit it; you do not compose it from memory.
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It is checked before it can cost you
A compliance review scores the entry and returns specific issues — each with a severity and a suggested rewrite, in Arabic or English. A vague narrative is caught while it is still cheap to fix, instead of being discovered as a write-off in three months.
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It becomes a priced line on the invoice
Recorded time turns into a due priced from its rate and duration, carrying the description with it — so what the fee earner wrote is what the client reads, without anyone retyping it.
The same thing, on screen.
Recording time against a matter and submitting the week.
What changes for the firm.
- The narrative is written from what you did, not from what you can recall.
- A vague entry is caught before it is billed rather than written off after.
- Non-billable time carries a type, so you can see where it goes.
- Friday afternoon stops being a reconstruction exercise.
- Suggested rewrites arrive in the language the fee earner works in.
- Recorded time becomes a priced line without being retyped.
Everything included, in one place.
Narratives drafted from your activity
CasEngine gathers what you actually did in a period — hearings, filings, correspondence, tasks — and drafts the description from it. The hard part of time recording has never been the clock; it has been writing what the six minutes were for.
A compliance check before billing
Entries are scored and returned with specific issues, each carrying a severity and a suggested rewrite in Arabic or English. The narratives clients strike out are identifiable before they reach an invoice.
Billable and non-billable, with reasons
Non-billable time is recorded with a type rather than as a single undifferentiated bucket, so the firm can see which non-billable work is investment and which is leakage.
Recorded against the actual work
Time attaches to a matter, case, project or enquiry, so hours belong to the file that generated them and utilisation is computed from records rather than estimates.
Straight into billing
Time becomes a due priced from its rate and duration and carries its description onto the invoice, so nothing is retyped between doing the work and billing it.
Approval before it counts
Timesheets are submitted and approved, and unapproved time ageing beyond a fortnight appears on the management dashboard as a standing risk rather than a surprise at month end.
Common questions about this feature.
It drafts it. CasEngine assembles what your record actually shows for the period — hearings, documents, correspondence, tasks — and writes a description from that, which you then edit. It is drafting from evidence rather than generating from a prompt, which is why the result tends to be more complete than what anyone reconstructs on a Friday.
It scores an entry and returns the specific problems with it, each with a severity and a proposed rewrite — the vague and non-specific narratives that a client's billing team removes months later. Catching one before it is billed is worth more than the check costs, because a written-off hour is not recoverable.
Yes. Recorded time becomes a payment due priced from its rate and duration, and carries its description through to the invoice line, so what the fee earner wrote is what the client reads.
Yes. Non-billable entries carry a type rather than sitting in one bucket, so business development, training and administration can be told apart — which is the difference between knowing your utilisation and knowing what to do about it.
Works with the rest of the platform.
Conflict checks & KYC
Screen every new matter against your whole book of business, and run client due diligence with a documented approve or reject trail.
Read ›AI case workspace
One workspace over a case's documents, with three ways into it: a dated chronology, a map of every party, and answers cited to the page they came from.
Read ›Client portal
Their cases, their updates, the documents you chose to share, and the paperwork you need back from them — in one place, scoped to them and nothing else.
Read ›Obligations & renewals
Every dated commitment — trade licence renewals, regulatory filings, powers of attorney, document expiries — attached to the client, case or project it belongs to, with a named owner and a reminder before it falls due.
Read ›Hearings & calendar
The daily hearing roll the way Gulf practice actually runs it — banded by instance, filtered by emirate and hearing type, in Arabic or English, on Hijri or Gregorian dates.
Read ›Legal accounting
The VAT return as a report rather than a reconstruction, tax and currency held on the client so an invoice is right by construction, and one position across the whole book — with the bookkeeping proper left to the package built for it.
Read ›See it on your own matters
A short walkthrough with our team, using the kind of work your team handles day to day.