Billing, Time & Finance Rankings

Where Clio data says lawyers lose the most time — and where the biggest tool opportunity exists.

23 pain points · 10 competing vendors

Leaderboard

# Vendor G S B Score Global Rank
1 Sage Timeslips 3 9 #164
2 Leanlaw 2 1 1 9 #108
3 Shieldpay 2 1 8 #160
4 Oddr 2 1 5 #255
5 Litify 1 3 #11
6 Actionstep 1 3 #12
7 lawtrades 1 3 —
8 Caseglide 1 1 3 #188
9 Elite 1 3 #38
10 PracticePanther 1 3 #13

Global (15)

16 vendors

Billable time estimated from memory hours after the work

Sev 3 Acuity #88
  1. #1 Sage Timeslips rlegaltech #164
  2. #2 Clio rlegaltech #4
  3. #3 Meruscase rlegaltech #23
  4. #4 Actionstep rlegaltech #12
  5. #5 PracticePanther rlegaltech #13
4 vendors

Practice management and accounting are two different planets

Sev 2 Acuity #187
  1. #1 Actionstep rlegaltech #12
  2. #2 Tabs3 rlegaltech #187
  3. #3 Leanlaw rlegaltech #108
  4. #4 Centerbase rlegaltech #156
4 vendors

In-house legal team spends $3M+ annually across 15 outside firms but has no visibility into whether...

Sev 3 Acuity #165
  1. #1 lawtrades
  2. #2 Brightflag rlegaltech #126
  3. #3 Caseglide rlegaltech #188
3 vendors

Solo/small firm invoice review is a one-at-a-time slog

Sev 2 Acuity #98
  1. #1 PracticePanther rlegaltech #13
  2. #2 Leanlaw rlegaltech #108
  3. #3 Oddr rlegaltech #255
2 vendors

Plaintiff attorney shifts to flat-fee or contingency-plus models but has no way to price cases...

Sev 2 Acuity #250
  1. #1 Leanlaw rlegaltech #108
  2. #2 Eve rlegaltech #53
2 vendors

BigLaw billing coordinators spend days processing proformas

Sev 3 Acuity #222
  1. #1 Elite rlegaltech #38
  2. #2 Oddr rlegaltech #255
2 vendors

Law firm's collections process is a manual afterthought — aging AR spreadsheet updated weekly,...

Sev 3 Acuity #100
  1. #1 retrievables
  2. #2 Oddr rlegaltech #255
2 vendors

Corporate client sends a 50-page outside counsel guidelines document with 200+ billing rules

Sev 4 Acuity #252
  1. #1 aderant-onyx
  2. #2 Caseglide rlegaltech #188
2 vendors

Growing startup's 2-person legal team needs outside counsel for a new practice area (trademark...

Sev 2 Acuity #105
  1. #1 Upcounsel rlegaltech #79
2 vendors

Associate or paralegal spends 2-3 hours daily on repetitive administrative tasks

Sev 3 Acuity #226
  1. #1 Caddi rlegaltech #102
  2. #2 Legalmate rlegaltech #295
1 vendors

Small-to-mid firm uses Online for accounting but needs legal-specific billing features (trust...

Sev 3 Acuity #73
  1. #1 Leanlaw rlegaltech #108
1 vendors

Mid-size law firm has used the same desktop billing software for 15 years and it works

Sev 2 Acuity #41
  1. #1 Sage Timeslips rlegaltech #164
1 vendors

When my firm's 20-year-old desktop billing system finally can

Sev 3 Acuity #79
  1. #1 Sage Timeslips rlegaltech #164
1 vendors

Litigation funder has invested in 50+ mass tort cases across 10 law firms but has no real-time...

Sev 3
  1. #1 Bridge Legal rlegaltech #91
1 vendors

Corporate IP department needs to report to management on the full cost of maintaining its patent...

Sev 3 Acuity #228
  1. #1 Patrix rlegaltech #132

United States (6)

2 vendors

Class action settlement awarded $42M to 500,000 claimants but distributing the money takes 6 months...

Sev 4 Acuity #22
  1. #1 Talli rlegaltech #144
  2. #2 Shieldpay rlegaltech #160
1 vendors

Referral tracking is a mess — PI firms owe percentages to referring attorneys but tracking who sent

Sev 4 Acuity #20
  1. #1 Litify rlegaltech #11
1 vendors

PI firm tracks liens from 15+ sources

Sev 5 Acuity #24
  1. #1 Cloudlex rlegaltech #29
1 vendors

Immigration attorney's clients need to pay legal fees but half of them are unbanked — they don't

Sev 5 Acuity #17
1 vendors

Hospital record department charges $200+ for copies of a client

Sev 2
  1. #1 Chartsquad rlegaltech #147
1 vendors

Mid-size firm outgrows or Tabs3 but 3E or feel like overkill

Sev 2 Acuity #30
  1. #1 Surepoint Legal Management System Lms rlegaltech #244

United Kingdom (2)

1 vendors

Law firm completing a £50M M&A deal needs to hold completion funds in escrow

Sev 5
  1. #1 Shieldpay rlegaltech #160
1 vendors

Conveyancing firm handles 500 property completions a month and each one requires receiving, holding

Sev 5
  1. #1 Shieldpay rlegaltech #160