Tip: How to Overcome the Three Problems Associated With Contract Lawyers and Other Temporary Personnel

Contact: Douglas Dweck, Bill4Time
(877) Bill4Time (877-245-5484) | sales@bill4time.com | www.bill4time.com

Many law firms take advantage of temporary knowledge workers. For example, you might use contract attorneys and paralegals for a document review, or hire one or more law students during the summer or the school year.

Using temporary personnel provides a tremendous savings with regard to payroll taxes, benefits, etc. But by the same token you've probably run into these three problems:

1. Software Licenses: If you want your contract lawyers to use your billing software to record their time, you have to shell out for additional licenses. When they stop working for you, those licenses go unused. Plus if they work from home, installation can be tricky.

2. Oversight: You need to manage temporary personnel more closely than your full-time personnel to ensure quality work, and spot potential problems early before they spiral out of control. By the time you see a WIP report, it might be too late.

3. Confidentiality: Obviously, the attorney-client privilege certainly applies in the case of contract attorneys. But what about your firm's confidentiality? You don't necessarily want to give these people unfettered access to your billing rates, client records, etc. You just want to give them the access they need to get their work done and nothing more.

BILL4TIME SOLVES ALL OF THESE PROBLEMS ...

Bill4Time is the Web-based billing application that many TechnoLawyer subscribers have adopted since Dennis Kennedy covered it earlier this year in the TechnoLawyer NewsWire newsletter.

Bill4Time solves all of the above problems as follows:

1. Software Licenses: With Bill4Time, you won't have unused licenses lying around collecting dust. Instead, using your Web browser, you can add new users and activate or deactivate users as needed. You only pay for active users on a prorated basis.

For example, suppose two contract attorneys start working for you in the middle of the month. You would create accounts for them so they could record their time. You would only pay half the monthly subscription price for those two accounts that month. When they complete the project, you would deactivate their accounts and no longer pay anything. If they ever worked for you again, you could reactivate their accounts.

2. Oversight: With Bill4Time, you can "subscribe" to matters. Once you do, you receive email alerts for that matter — when someone posts their time, completes a task, etc. These alerts provide an early warning system for potential problems. Plus it's nice to stay on top of a matter anywhere you have email access.

3. Confidentiality: When you create a user account in Bill4Time, you can limit access however you see fit. For example, you can limit a person to one matter, prevent them from seeing their billing rate, not allow them to create new matters or generate bills, etc.

TRY BILL4TIME FOR FREE (PLUS NO SOFTWARE TO INSTALL) ..

Because Bill4Time works in your Web browser, there's no software to install. So if you find it's not your cup of tea, there's no software to uninstall.

Try Bill4Time now free of charge for 30 days.

And best wishes for an enjoyable holiday season.

Contact:

Douglas Dweck
Bill4Time
Broadway Billing Systems
115 Broadway
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10006
(877) Bill4Time (877-245-5484)
(646) 201-4911 (Int'l)
sales@bill4time.com
www.bill4time.com

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