Time tracking for lawyers
complying with the law you invoke yourself
Flexible hours, court hearings, on-call shifts and remote work. Partners don't clock in; the rest of the staff do, and the Labour Inspectorate knows it. Flexible recording, without the factory aesthetic.
The paradox of the sector: few professions know art. 34.9 of the Workers' Statute better than an employment law firm, and few break it more casually in their own house. The lawyers on the payroll are workers like everyone else, and a firm sanctioned for failing to record hours worked is a headline no client forgets.
The firm's 4 challenges
The firm's flexibility is legitimate. Undocumented, it is a liability that one day gets settled by the person with the sharpest legal technique in the room.
Flexible hours and court hearings
The trial starts at 7:30 and the next one at 10:00. The record reflects the real elasticity with a monthly count that adds up, without forcing anyone into a straitjacket.
Clock in without the factory feeling
Chrome extension (one click when you open your laptop), the app on the way to court, or the web. No terminals at the door like a turnstile.
Confidentiality and data
The record is handled in line with the GDPR, with each employee having individual access to their own data and full change traceability. Nothing to do with client case files.
A day in court or at the client
Clock in from your phone with optional location captured only at that moment: the Valencia hearing is logged as a workday without calling the back office.
How Cleverfy works in a law firm
Recording hours worked, not charging billable hours. Two obligations, two tools, zero dangerous mixing.
Chrome extension
Clocking in is one click with your first coffee. Zero friction, zero factory aesthetic.
App for courts and clients
Clock in with two taps, with optional geolocation captured only at the moment of clocking in.
Flexible schedule and monthly count
The firm's elasticity, reflected and balanced. Overtime tracked with alerts.
Reports by practice area
Employment, commercial, litigation: find out which area concentrates the hours (and burns out the team).
Official ChatGPT app
Check your hours and clock in from the chat itself, with controlled access. No other Spanish time-tracking tool has it.
Traceability and 4-year history
Every change is traced and the history is inspection-ready. It doesn't mix with your billable hours: your case management software still handles that.
Time-recording systems for a firm, compared
"We don't clock in here"
€751-7,500 + presumptions against you + the headline you never wanted
Back-office Excel
No traceability, filled in at month-end, indefensible
Case management software
Charges hours to matters (billing), does not record hours worked in a compliant way
HR suite
Minimums of €80-115/month for a 10-person firm: oversized
Cleverfy (Chrome + app + web)
One click, flexible, serious GDPR compliance, from €1.20/user
What the record must contain (and what the Labour Inspectorate looks at)
In a law firm the Labour Inspectorate rarely arrives by chance: it arrives through an internal dispute, from someone who knows how to draft a flawless complaint.
Worker identification
Associates, juniors, paralegals and back office: all employed staff
Real start and end times
Including the hearing day that starts at 7:30
Work outside the office
Courts, notaries, clients: still a recordable workday
On-call and availability
With a documented counting and compensation criterion
Overtime
The junior working 60-hour weeks is the biggest hidden liability of the firm
Remote work
Same record when working remotely (Law 10/2021)
How to roll it out in 5 steps
Define who clocks in
Professional partners: no. Associates, juniors, paralegals and back office on an employment contract: yes. The legal relationship decides, not the robe.
Write down the flexibility framework
Court hearings, monthly count and time off after a trial week. Legitimate flexibility, documented.
Channels without the turnstile aesthetic
Chrome extension, app for hearings and web as a backup. Clocking in takes less than opening LexNET.
A discreet two-week trial run
The back office reviews missed entries daily. Each lawyer sees their own; partners see the picture by area.
Monthly routine focused on juniors
Overtime by area and time off kept current. A junior's burnout costs more than a decade of the system.
A firm with 3 partners and 8 on the payroll
The risk: a junior leaves after two years and claims 24 months of overtime with devastating evidence (emails after 9:00 PM, receipts from the duty court). With no record to counter it, the exposure is around €11,000, and the resulting Labour Inspectorate case reviews the other 7.
The result with Cleverfy: €9.60/month on the annual plan. The first quarter of data reveals that litigation concentrates 70% of the excess in two juniors; the load is redistributed and the 60-hour weeks disappear. The next departure is closed with no claim: there is a record, there is documented time off, there is no case.
Frequently asked questions about time tracking at law firms
Plead compliance, with documentary evidence
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