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Billing On the Go -- Of Course There's an App for That

By Eric Lipman

Jeff Richardson at iPhone J.D. has the news that there is now an iPhone billing app, iSlips, that will sync with the popular non-mobile timekeeping program Timeslips. The demo video does make it look like a pretty simple app to use, once you set up your defaults and get your client/matter list downloaded. At least for those of you who are not plagued by fat finger syndrome. Jeff also says many of the timekeeping apps he included in a survey last year have been significantly improved since then. It's been a while since I had to regularly account for my days in six-minute increments, but I suspect that, like Jeff, I would be more inclined to simply wait until I got back to my desk, or at least somewhere with a pencil and piece of paper, to record what I'd been up to. Though I guess there are situations where such a tool might come in handy. How do you technophile lawyers feel: Is a program like this essential? Does it make you more efficient? Anyone have any horror stories about these apps crashing, causing you to resort to the old trick of flipping through a month's worth of e-mails...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on March 09, 2010 (boomark / email).