Law Firm Timekeeping Software
Law firm timekeeping that fits the way your firm works.
Some timekeepers love a timer. Some live in Outlook. Some work from their phone between court, client calls, and the next thing already running late. Centerbase gives midsize law firms flexible timekeeping options inside one connected business platform, so your team can capture more billable time without forcing everyone into the same routine.
Start with simple, built-in time entry. Add Centerbase Automated Time Capture to catch the work that usually slips through the cracks. Go further with our strategic partner, Billables AI, whose AI timekeeping software captures work across the tools your attorneys already use.
More options. Better data. Fewer lost billable minutes. And Centerbase IQ puts every captured entry to work for the whole firm.
One Platform
Three levels of timekeeping, one connected platform.
Timekeeping is not one-size-fits-all. Firms have different requirements and goals to record, review, and manage time. Centerbase lets your firm tailor the experience while ensuring whichever level you choose, you have a fully connected system between time, matters, billing, and reporting. Every entry at every level also feeds Centerbase IQ, so the more your firm captures, the smarter your reporting gets.
Core Timekeeping
1Simple, built-in time entry for daily legal work.
Core Timekeeping gives your team a clean, reliable way to enter time as work happens. Attorneys and staff can record billable activity, connect it to the right client and matter, and keep entries moving toward billing without extra clutter.
Great for firms that want a practical foundation for accurate timekeeping.
- Use a Global Timer for active work.
- Enter time in built-in timesheets.
- Track time from desktop or mobile.
- Connect entries to matters, clients, tasks, and billing workflows.
- Help timekeepers hit billable targets with less friction.
Automated Time Capture
2Automated timekeeping for the little things that add up.
The quick phone call. The client text. The email that should have been a time entry. The document update that took only a few minutes, so no one logged it.
That is where Centerbase Automated Time Capture shines. It helps record everyday billable activity in the background, including calls, texts, emails, appointments, tasks, and document activity, so timekeepers have fewer details to reconstruct later.
Tiny leaks become real money when they happen across every timekeeper, every week. Let the platform keep better watch.
- Recover time from everyday client communication and case activity.
- Reduce end-of-day and end-of-week time reconstruction.
- Give billers cleaner entries earlier in the process.
- Improve visibility into productivity, utilization, and realization.
- Support faster, more accurate billing cycles.
Billables AI Integration
3Advanced automated time capture through our strategic partner.
For firms ready to put AI timekeeping software to work, Centerbase integrates with Billables AI, our strategic partner for advanced legal timekeeping. Billables AI captures work activity across the tools attorneys already use, matches activity to the correct client and matter, drafts billing narratives for attorney review, and sends approved time entries into Centerbase.
Attorneys stay in control. The firm gets a stronger record of the work performed. Finance gets better data before the bill goes out. Everybody wins, including the minutes that used to disappear.
- Capture billable work across everyday legal workflows.
- Create detailed time entry narratives for review and approval.
- Match work to the right client, matter, and billing context.
- Send approved entries back into Centerbase.
- Strengthen reporting on profitability, timekeeper performance, and firm growth.
Recovery
Recover lost billable time before it becomes lost revenue.
Lost billable time rarely looks dramatic in the moment. It looks like five minutes here, a short call there, a client email between meetings, or a document review that never makes it onto the timesheet.
Those small misses become a profitability problem fast.
Centerbase helps firms tighten the gap by giving timekeepers the right level of capture for how they work. Core timekeeping handles active entry. Automated Time Capture catches everyday activity that is easy to miss. Billables AI brings AI timekeeping to more workflows with advanced automated capture and narrative generation.
Want to put numbers around the opportunity? Use the recovery calculator to estimate how much billable revenue your firm may be leaving behind.
How much billable time is sitting in the cracks?
Run the numbers with the Centerbase recovery calculator and see what better time capture could mean for your firm.
Calculate recoverable billable timeTimekeeping Intelligence
Centerbase IQ turns timekeeping data into firm-wide intelligence.
Every time entry tells a small story. Who did the work, for which client, on which matter, and how long it took. Multiply that across every timekeeper and every week, and your firm is sitting on one of its most valuable datasets. Most firms never put it to work.
Centerbase IQ is the intelligence layer of the Centerbase platform, and timekeeping is one of its richest sources of fuel. IQ analyzes time alongside billing and matter data, so firm leaders can ask real business questions and get answers grounded in the firm's own work, in plain language, without waiting on a report request.
- See utilization and realization trends by timekeeper, practice group, or office.
- Spot matters trending over budget before write-downs pile up.
- Understand where capacity exists and where teams are stretched thin.
- Compare matter economics across clients and practice areas.
- Ask questions in plain language and get answers from your firm's own data.
Capture quality drives intelligence quality. Core Timekeeping, Automated Time Capture, and Billables AI all feed the same connected dataset, which means every level of capture makes IQ sharper about how your firm actually runs. Firms in the Centerbase IQ pilot asked more than 625 questions about their business across eight firms, from staffing decisions to matter profitability. The data was already there. IQ made it answer.
See Centerbase IQ in ActionScreenshot showing a simple timesheet with worked hours line items.
Screenshot showing an approval form for a series of time entry records.
One Size Fits All
Tailored for every role in the firm.
Timekeeping touches nearly every part of a law firm. When it works well, attorneys spend less time chasing their day, billers have fewer gaps to clean up, and leadership gets cleaner data to manage the business.
For attorneys and timekeepers
Capture time closer to the work, from a timer, a timesheet, a mobile device, automated activity capture, or Billables AI. Less backtracking. Fewer mystery gaps. Better odds that the work you did actually gets billed.
For billers and finance teams
Get more complete time data earlier in the billing process. Cleaner entries help reduce follow-up, write-downs, and pre-bill chaos. Yes, the pre-bill scramble can finally lose some of its drama.
For firm administrators
Support different work-styles without multiplying systems. Centerbase keeps time capture connected to matters, billing, workflows, and reporting, so the firm can improve adoption without creating another operational island.
For managing partners
Better time data leads to better business decisions. When firms capture more of the work already being done, leadership gets a clearer view of utilization, realization, matter economics, and where profitability can improve. Centerbase IQ takes it further. Ask a question about staffing, capacity, or matter performance and get an answer built from your firm's own data, in the time it takes to type it.
Our Strategic Partner
Meet Billables AI, our strategic partner for advanced automated time capture.
Centerbase selected Billables AI as a strategic partner because modern firms need timekeeping that happens closer to the work. Attorneys already move across email, documents, meetings, calls, and collaboration tools all day. Billables AI helps convert that activity into review-ready time entries that can flow back into Centerbase.
The result is a richer timekeeping dataset for the firm and a lighter administrative lift for timekeepers. More captured work. More reliable narratives. More useful reporting. Fewer hours lost to memory, guesswork, or the Friday timesheet panic.
And because entries are reviewed before they are submitted, attorneys keep control of what gets billed while the firm gains a more complete picture of the work behind each matter.
Learn about the Centerbase + Billables AI integration
Flexible Timekeeping
The power of flexible timekeeping inside the Centerbase business platform.
Standalone time tools can help collect hours. Centerbase goes further by keeping time connected to the way the firm actually runs.
- Time connects to matters, billing, and financial workflows.
- Billers and admins can manage time data in the same operating platform.
- Centerbase IQ analyzes time alongside billing and matter data to surface firm-wide insights.
- Leaders can use more complete data to evaluate productivity and profitability.
- Firms can choose the timekeeping model that fits each team without losing control.
- Timekeepers get practical options instead of one rigid process everyone quietly works around.
The payoff compounds. Better timekeeping strengthens this month's bills and sharpens every business decision that follows.
Ready for timekeeping that
actually fits your firm?
Whether your firm needs simple time entry, automated capture, or advanced automated timekeeping with Billables AI, Centerbase gives you flexible options inside one connected platform.
Capture more of the work your team already does. Bill with more confidence. Let Centerbase IQ show leadership what the numbers mean.
Timekeeping does not have to be the thing everyone avoids. It can be the thing that helps the whole firm run tighter.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is law firm timekeeping software?
Law firm timekeeping software helps attorneys and staff record billable work, connect time entries to the right clients and matters, and move those entries into billing. Centerbase offers flexible options, including core time entry, Automated Time Capture, and advanced automated time capture through Billables AI.What is the difference between Core Timekeeping and Premium Automated Time Capture?
Core Timekeeping is built for straightforward time entry through tools like timers, timesheets, and mobile access. Automated Time Capture helps record eligible activity in the background, including client communication, appointments, tasks, and document work, so timekeepers have less to rebuild from memory.Can attorneys still enter time manually?
Yes. Attorneys and staff can still use built-in time entry tools. The goal is flexibility, and no timekeeper gets forced into a single workflow.How does automated time capture help recover lost billable time?
Automated time capture helps identify the small pieces of billable work that are often missed, such as quick calls, emails, texts, meetings, and document activity. Capturing more of those moments can improve realization and reduce write-offs caused by incomplete time records.How does Centerbase IQ use timekeeping data?
Centerbase IQ is the intelligence layer of the Centerbase platform. It analyzes time entries alongside billing and matter data to surface insights on utilization, realization, capacity, and matter economics. Firm leaders can ask questions in plain language and get answers based on their firm's own work. The more complete your time capture, the more useful those answers become.What is AI timekeeping software?
AI timekeeping software captures billable work automatically as attorneys move through email, documents, calls, and meetings, then drafts time entries for review instead of asking timekeepers to reconstruct their day from memory. Centerbase supports AI timekeeping in two ways: patented Automated Time Capture built into the platform, and advanced AI capture through our strategic partner, Billables AI. Both feed Centerbase IQ, so every captured entry also strengthens firm-wide reporting.Where does Billables AI fit with Centerbase timekeeping?
Billables AI supports advanced automated time capture across everyday workflows. It helps match activity to the right client and matter, drafts time entry narratives for review, and sends approved entries into Centerbase.Can different teams use different timekeeping options?
Yes. Firms can use the timekeeping approach that fits each team, role, or practice area. That flexibility helps improve adoption while keeping time connected to Centerbase matters, billing, and reporting.How can our firm estimate the value of better time capture?
Use the Centerbase recovery calculator to estimate how much billable time and revenue your firm may be able to recover by improving time capture.