Your firm tracks your hours for them. SoloBill tracks your hours for you. When year-end compensation rolls around and the firm says you billed X — you can prove you billed Y.
Non-equity attorneys at every level — associates, of-counsel, income partners — face the same situation: compensation tied to hours they didn't personally verify. These are real scenarios.
Zero setup friction. You're tracking independent hours in under 2 minutes.
Create your clients and matters — mirror what you're working on at the firm, or just track by category. This is your private system. No one else sees it.
2 minutes to set upOne-click timers. Log from anywhere. The moment you start work, start the clock. End of day, you have a documented, timestamped record that you created — not the firm.
Your record, your timestampsComp review coming up? Lateral conversation starting? Export your hours by date range, matter, or client. You walk in with documentation. That changes every conversation.
Receipts on demandClio is an excellent product — for firms. It manages billing, compliance, and client matters at a firm level. But that's precisely the problem for non-equity attorneys.
The day you leave, you lose access to every billing record you ever created in Clio. Years of documented work — gone from your hands.
Billing coordinators can write down hours, adjust descriptions, or mark entries non-billable. You often find out when the invoice is sent — or at year-end.
A lateral move means starting from zero — unless you kept your own records. Most associates don't realize this until they're already mid-negotiation.
Your account, your data. Leave a firm, take your records. The timestamps you created are yours. Your shadow ledger travels with you.
Mid-level associate, 160 hours undercounted at year-end. At $300/hr standard rate, that's $48,000 in billed value that disappeared before your bonus was calculated. Even a fraction of that back changes the number significantly.
The term "non-equity" is broad — and so is the need. If your compensation has any connection to billable hours and you don't personally verify them, this is for you.
Billing targets drive bonuses. The difference between 1,900 and 2,000 billed hours can be $10,000–$20,000 in compensation. Verify your own numbers.
Often on custom comp arrangements with less oversight over billing. Shadow tracking is essential when your deal is tied to production but you're not in the billing system.
Compensation is more complex — origination, billing, collections all matter. You should have an independent record of every one of those numbers, not just firm-reported figures.
If you're billing by the hour on a staffing arrangement, you're the last to see the final billing records. SoloBill is your own log — complete and exportable on your timeline.
This is a personal tool. You sign up with your email, start tracking, and that's it. Nothing touches firm infrastructure. Nothing requires approval.
The attorneys who win comp disputes are the ones who started tracking independently six months earlier. Start now. The receipts you build today are the leverage you have tomorrow.