You think you know
where your time goes.
You don’t.
Every attorney I’ve worked with estimates 20% of their week on admin. The actual number is closer to 50. This free template shows you exactly where your hours disappear — and what it’s costing you in lost revenue.
Get the Free Template →The slow leak of admin is invisible
until you measure it.
None of the attorneys below believed the numbers until they saw them in writing. The problem isn’t laziness or poor time management — it’s that a fragmented workday makes admin impossible to feel in real time.
Not legal correspondence. Operational email — scheduling, follow-ups, document requests, client status updates. Eleven hours moving information from one inbox to another.
Not the legal work that generates the bill — just the act of creating invoices, sending them, tracking payments, and following up on accounts that are 30, 60, 90 days out.
One attorney was spending 90 minutes every single day on intake-related tasks — for 3–4 new clients per month. Eight hours of attorney time for a process that should take zero attorney time.
Everything auto-calculates.
Your only job is to track.
The template is built so that five minutes of setup and five days of honest tracking give you a complete picture — including the number that actually changes how attorneys think about their practice.
- Pre-built category dropdowns — no manual typing, consistent data
- Hours-per-category breakdown with % of total week
- Estimated revenue lost calculated against your own billing rate
- Annualized cost projection — the number that makes it real
- Works in Excel and Google Sheets
| Category | Hours | % of Week | Rev. Lost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Client Matters | 18.5 | 39% | Billable |
| Email & Comms | 11.0 | 23% | $3,850 |
| Billing & Invoicing | 6.0 | 13% | $2,100 |
| Client Intake | 7.5 | 16% | $2,625 |
| Total Admin | 29.0 | 61% | $51,100/yr |
See your numbers.
Then decide what to fix.
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