Time tracking and capacity planning software for lawyers that captures every billable minute

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Start a timer and Toggl connects every call, hearing, research block, and drafting session to its billable value, delivery cost, and margin. Then plan the next matter against the attorney capacity you actually have.

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Used by law firms, solo attorneys, and in-house legal teams from 1 to 1,000+ people

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Easy, fuss-free onboarding

Instant setup, intuitive one-click time tracking and privacy-first approach to make it a breeze to get the whole team on board.

Multi-platform time tracking that fits into your workflow

Track time from inside other tools, whether Google Suite or Jira, from your desktop, your phone, or the web.

GDPR-compliant and committed to employee privacy

Toggl stays compliant with the latest GDPR regulatory developments and takes a hard stance against employee surveillance.

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Capture every billable hour, protect realization, and see which matters are profitable

A short call, an overrun hearing, and a “quick” question can vanish from the timesheet — hurting realization and leaving the firm unsure which matters are overserviced or who has capacity.

Track legal work without interrupting it

Track any client, matter, or task from the web, desktop, mobile app, or browser extension — or turn calendar events into time logs, so hearings, consultations, and calls actually count.
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Use desktop auto-tracking to create a private activity timeline, giving you accurate records without surveillance, screenshots, or constant timesheet reconstruction.

"It’s a lawyer’s dream come true. I recommend this to absolutely every single new associate who comes to the firm and have used it for years since I found it — four firms ago.”

— Tiffany S., Associate Attorney

See when hourly, retainer, and flat-fee work stop paying

Set billable rates and labour costs to see revenue, cost, and margin by client or matter. Compare tracked time with estimates and monitor budget use in project dashboards.
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Time-estimate and fixed-fee alerts flag overruns early, leaving time to adjust scope, reassign work, or raise a change order before the write-down.

"Toggl is wickedly easy to use. Having graphs and summaries versus detailed time entries is the most brilliant feature of the platform. It’s magical.”

— Chris Harvey, CEO and Managing Partner, Harvey Esquire

Give clients a defensible bill and build trust

Each time entry includes a description, task, and client. Filter reports by client, period, or matter, and round time to your billing increment - including the six-minute tenths.
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Export reports as PDFs or invite clients as Guests to view their matters. Timesheet approvals for legal teams ensure nothing is billed without review.

"Makes my billing very accurate, especially as a lawyer where every minute matters.”

— Michael D., Candidate Attorney

Run the matter, not just the clock

In Toggl, Tasks carry owners, estimates and due dates, statuses follow the life of a file from intake through discovery to resolution, and court dates and filing deadlines sit on the Timeline as milestones.

Deliver work profitably
Built for how law firms actually work
Automatic and one-click time tracking
Start a timer from a task or track from the browser extension, web, desktop, or mobile app. Use private desktop activity tracking and calendar integrations to capture research, correspondence, and meetings that would otherwise be reconstructed on Friday.
Hourly, retainer, and flat-fee profitability
Track billable value and delivery cost against the agreed rate or fee. See when a matter is consuming more partner, associate, or paralegal time than it can support.
Different rates for different layers
Set rates by workspace, person, project, or project member, so a partner, associate, of counsel, paralegal, and contract attorney can carry the right value on the same client file.
Matter health and budget alerts
Compare estimates with tracked time, monitor forecasts from the project dashboard, and notify the right person when a time-estimate or fixed-fee threshold is reached.
Reporting and approvals, six minutes at a time
Filter and round reports — including to six-minute increments — export them as PDFs, and approve weekly timesheets before billing. Give clients matter-only Guest access when they need ongoing visibility.
Estimates based on real legal work
Compare the planned and actual hours behind intake, research, drafting, hearings, correspondence, and matter management. Use the evidence to quote the next similar file.
Capacity and utilization
Use the Timeline to see forward-looking availability and the Utilization report to see how much available time became billable work. Spot overbooking, idle capacity, and burnout risk without a resourcing spreadsheet.
Repeatable retainers and matter types
Turn a successful delivery structure into a project template or recurring project. Keep tasks, milestones, assignments, rates, and fixed-fee setup consistent across periods.
Legal workflow integrations
Turn Google Calendar or Outlook events into time logs, track from mobile app on the go or from supported web tools through the browser extension, and keep time in Toggl even when billing still lives in another system.

One source of truth for every legal team

Independent attorneys and boutique firms
Toggl captures the client hours, applies the right rate, and turns the work into a professional report. Start free with time tracking, tasks, and capacity planning; add billable rates, budgets, and profitability as the practice grows.
Client-service law firms
See matter margin, utilization, and capacity per client and person without stitching together a time tracker, resourcing sheet, and reporting tool. Approvals keep billing data clean, while the Timeline shows whether the firm can take the next file.
In-house legal and legal-ops teams
Attribute time to departments, request types, and business units to show stakeholders what the work required and use actual effort to support decisions on priorities, outside counsel, and headcount.

FAQs

What’s the best time tracking software for lawyers and attorneys?

The best fit captures every billable minute without interrupting the work, rounds to the firm’s billing increment, and is low-friction enough that attorneys actually use it. Toggl turns automatic or one-click tracking into utilisation and profitability, works on multiple platforms (mobile, desktop, browser extension) so you can see which matters pay and who can take the next file.

How do lawyers track billable hours in Toggl?

Track any client, matter, or task from the tool you already work in, or turn calendar events into entries so hearings, calls, and consultations count.

Each entry carries a client, project, and description, so the billable record builds as the work happens instead of on Friday. Round reports to six-minute tenths when you bill that way.

Can Toggl handle both hourly and flat-fee legal work?

Yes. Use billable rates for hourly matters or set a fixed fee for budget-based work and retainers. Toggl compares tracked effort and delivery cost with the matter’s revenue so you can see the resulting profit and margin.

How does Toggl help catch unbilled time and write-downs?

Set estimates for matters and create alerts at the percentage thresholds you choose. The project dashboard shows tracked time against the estimate, while profitability reporting shows what the extra effort is doing to margin — before it becomes a write-down.

Can different people have different rates on the same matter?

Yes. Rates can be set at the workspace, member, project, or project-member level, so a partner, associate, and paralegal can bill the same file at the right rates.

Will attorneys actually use it?

They can start a timer from the task or tool they are already using, track from desktop or mobile, convert calendar events into time logs with zero clicks, or review a private activity timeline later and decide what to turn into a time log.

There is no screenshot, keystroke, or location monitoring.

Can I see who is available before taking another matter?

Yes. Group the Timeline by People to see each person’s capacity after their working hours, task estimates, time off, public holidays, and connected-calendar commitments are taken into account.

What if our existing work is already in another tool?

Import clients, projects, tasks, time entries, members, teams and historical rate data by CSV. The importer supports common exports from Harvest, Clockify, ClickUp, Asana and Teamwork.

Can Toggl manage tasks and matters or does it just record billable time?

Both. Toggl is one tool for time tracking, capacity planning, and task and matter management. Associates track against the same tasks the matter is planned on, so workload across the team, upcoming court dates and realization per matter come from one record.