Anyone working in a law firm knows how timekeeping usually goes. You move from call to meeting to email, and somewhere along the way you still need to capture your time. Often that means typing things out, filling in details, and trying to be precise while your day is already moving on.
Verbal Time Entry in Legalsense takes a different approach. You simply say what you did.
“Call with client about contract review, 30 minutes.”
“Drafting memo for matter X, one and a half hours.”
Legalsense automatically turns each of those into a new time entry with the correct duration, client, matter, and activity.
“Diederick Brouwers had a meeting today for 1 hour and yesterday for 2 hours with Clearglass about 10003.001. Today I had litigation on Atlas' Shepard case with Diederick and Hassan for 2 hours.”
“It’s been a busy day: I had a one-hour meeting in the morning with Johnny from Van der Meer Hardware, then traveled to Eindhoven for 1.5 hours, had a meeting with Lomicon about their sponsoring for 2 hours. I drafted some emails in the afternoon for 3 hours, mostly regarding Clearglass' acquisition of Autoglass, and finally from 4 to 5:15 we had an internal meeting about Van der Meer.”
From this, Legalsense creates multiple time entries in one go. Instead of manually creating each entry, you describe your work in mere seconds and let Legalsense do the heavy lifting.
Legalsense's Verbal Time Entry does more than convert speech into text. It interprets what you say and turns it into usable time entries.
Based on your input, Legalsense determines what you worked on, which activity fits best, how long it took, and how that should be registered in your environment. This works across multiple matters, multiple timekeepers, and relative dates like “yesterday” or “last Thursday”.
The real strength is how flexible this approach is in practice. You are not limited to short, clean sentences. You can describe your work the way you naturally would, even if that includes multiple matters, colleagues, or switching between languages.
For example: “Had a call with Sophie about Atlas, then worked on some emails for the ClearGlass acquisition, and later some travel for the Van der Meer matter, about two hours in total.”
From this, Legalsense already does most of the work. It separates the activities, links them to relevant matters like the Atlas litigation and the ClearGlass acquisition, and creates multiple time entries instead of one combined entry. In most cases, this gets you very close to the final result, with only small refinements needed.
Because speaking is faster and more natural, it becomes much easier to track time immediately after doing the work. That leads to:
It shifts timekeeping from something you'll take care of later to something you capture in the moment.
Verbal Time Entry makes timekeeping faster, but you stay in control at any step.
Want to see how Verbal Time Entry works in practice? Our knowledge base article walks through creating entries, reviewing drafts, and getting the most out of the feature.