Law Office Time Entry and Disbursement Statement

Law Office Time Entry and Disbursement Statement is an offline app (one HTML file in a zip) for the billing administration of a law office. Each lawyer has an hourly rate, each time entry takes the minutes and a short narrative, and each cost paid for a client is recorded with a note. Work stays unbilled until a statement with a cut-off date covers it, and the Today page shows what is ready to bill and what has not been billed for too long.

The problem it removes: Time is remembered at the end of the month from diaries and chat, costs paid at the counter are forgotten and never recharged, and a long file is billed late or not at all. Retainers received on account are tracked on a separate sheet. This app keeps minutes, costs, statements and payments for each file together and shows what is unbilled today.

What is inside:

• Time entries in minutes with the lawyer, a short narrative, an optional rate for that entry and billable or not billable
• Disbursements: court fees, courier, translation, travel and other costs, with a choice to charge them to the client and a VAT choice per cost
• Statements per file with a cut-off date: all time and costs up to the cut-off that earlier statements did not cover are included, with a discount line
• Payments and retainers received on account, with the balance owed or held for each file
• Today page: unbilled work by file, files not billed for a number of days you set, time above an agreed cap, overdue statements
• One tap prepares a draft statement for every file that has unbilled work
• Printable statement of fees and disbursements, a receipt and a billing summary sheet
• Example data you can load in one click, a Start here guide and an Honest limits panel
• JSON backup and restore, CSV export, and CSV import with a check of every row before anything is added

Who it is for: law offices, legal consultancies and small in-house legal teams in the UAE who bill by the hour, or record hours against agreed fees, and want time, costs and payments on account in one place.

What it is NOT: It gives no legal or tax advice, does not know any fee scale or court fee, and the statement it prints is an administrative statement, not a tax invoice. The VAT rate is a setting you enter. It has no timer, no trust accounting rules and no multi-user login. Do not type privileged notes in the narrative. It is not legal, tax or accounting advice, it is not connected to any government system, bank or messaging service, and it does not file or send anything by itself. UAE e-invoicing is not part of it.

Your data stays on this device in your browser. Back it up with Export; clearing browser data loses it otherwise.

Verified by us: scripted tests in Chromium (174 checks through the real screens: adding, editing and deleting records in every table, required-field messages, backup then clear then restore, CSV export then import, keyboard order, print layouts rendered to PDF, no horizontal scrolling at 375 and 1280 pixels, no network requests) and an independent recalculation by a separately written Python evaluator of 2984 calculated values (25 randomised rows plus the example data) with 0 mismatches. Not tested: Safari and Firefox beyond what is stated here, and no real printer was used (print layouts were checked as PDF).