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title: "Time capture at Hamilton Family Law"
description: "A worked example: where a 4-attorney family law practice loses billable time to memory-based tracking, and the numbers a capture app would have to hit."
doc_version: "2026-05-20"
last_updated: "2025-01-15T12:00:00.000Z"
canonical_url: https://www.lightforgeworks.com/blog/hamilton-family-law-case-study/
---

# Time capture at Hamilton Family Law

# Time capture at Hamilton Family Law

Hamilton Family Law is a composite company: a 4-attorney family law practice at $1.8M revenue. The workflow and the failure points are real patterns; the company and the numbers are illustrative.

## The problem

The four attorneys reconstruct their day at the end of it. Client calls, short research, document prep: the fragments that never make it into the timesheet. The partners put the loss at 15 to 20 percent of billable time.

## The build

A time capture app that watches the channels the attorneys already work in. It logs phone calls with the client's matter code attached, reads email threads into the same matter, and takes voice time entries from the car. The attorney approves the entries in one pass instead of reconstructing them from memory. Ten weeks to build. The firm's people spent about ten hours on it.

## The numbers it would have to hit

- Recovered billable time: roughly $205,000 in year one
- Captured billable hours: up 23 percent
- Daily time entry per attorney: 18 minutes down to 3
- Payback at those numbers: about three months

**[Read the full walkthrough →](/blog/hamilton-family-law-case-study-full)**

## Interactive Demo

<div class="solution-embed">
  <iframe src="/static/demos/hamilton-family-law/hamilton-family-law-demo.html" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0" style="border-radius: 8px; box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);"></iframe>
  <p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 10px; font-style: italic; color: #666;">Interactive demonstration of the time capture approach</p>
</div>

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