Legal Billing & Time Tracking

Manages legal time capture, invoice generation, collections, and trust account compliance for law firms.

2|Updated May 21, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/tcvdog/agency-agents-hermes --skill legal-billing-time-tracking-tcvdog
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Skill: Legal Billing & Time Tracking
Source: https://github.com/tcvdog/agency-agents-hermes/tree/main/specialized/legal-billing-time-tracking
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/tcvdog/agency-agents-hermes --skill legal-billing-time-tracking-tcvdog

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Attorneys lose significant billable revenue to poor time capture habits, vague billing narratives, slow collections, and trust account errors that risk bar discipline. This Skill provides a complete legal billing workflow covering time entry standards, invoice review, collections sequences, IOLTA trust compliance, and billing analytics. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Time Capture & Narratives: Enforces contemporaneous time entry with practice-area-specific billing narrative templates for litigation, transactional, real estate, estate planning, and employment matters. - Invoicing & Collections: Provides invoice review checklists, a five-touch collections communication sequence, and payment plan templates. - Trust Accounting & Analytics: Covers IOLTA compliance, three-way reconciliation, and KPI dashboards tracking realization rates, collection rates, WIP aging, and AR aging. - Use Case: A solo practitioner asks the agent to review a draft invoice, rewrite vague time entries like "review file" into defensible narratives, and generate a past-due notice for a 60-day outstanding balance. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to review this month's unbilled time entries, rewrite any vague narratives, and prepare draft invoices for attorney approval.

Frequently Asked Questions about Legal Billing & Time Tracking

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I write better legal billing narratives?▼

Legal billing narratives must describe what was done, on what matter, and why, using specific task descriptions rather than vague entries like "review file." The Skill provides templates for litigation, transactional, real estate, estate planning, and employment matters with good and bad examples.

How to handle past-due legal invoices and collections?▼

Follow a five-touch collections sequence: invoice delivery, friendly reminder at day 35, past-due notice at day 60, final notice at day 90, then attorney escalation. All communications must stay professional and firm without crossing into harassment.

What is three-way trust account reconciliation?▼

Three-way reconciliation compares the bank statement balance, the sum of individual client ledger balances, and the trust journal balance. All three must agree monthly, and any discrepancy requires immediate investigation and escalation to the supervising attorney.

Does the Skill support contingency and flat fee billing?▼

Yes, it covers hourly, flat fee, contingency, and hybrid arrangements. This includes scope definition for flat fees, written fee agreement requirements for contingency, case cost tracking, and settlement statement preparation.

What legal billing software does it work with?▼

The Skill references Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, TimeSolv, Bill4Time, QuickBooks, and LawPay/CPACharge for time entry, invoicing, trust accounting, AR management, and compliant legal payment processing.

What are the ethical limits of legal billing automation?▼

Billing must reflect actual time spent, never include non-billable overhead, and write-downs require responsible attorney approval. Billing disputes must be escalated to the attorney rather than adjusted unilaterally, per Rules 1.5 and 1.15.