Complex tasks require simple tools. Lawyers can and will use technology that is convenient, easy and advances their work (e-mail, Internet). But, they have no time or tolerance for time-consuming clerical tasks or needless complexities. Lawyers will reject or neglect the use of any system that interrupts and interferes with daily practice.

PensEra developed TimeKM as a time and knowledge tracking “environment” that helps lawyers and professional organizations recover more value with less effort anytime and anywhere. We don’t try to change lawyer behavior. We blend the capture and use of key information with the way lawyers work best – at the office, with their secretaries, at home or on the road.

The TimeKM activity-tracking environment consists of three modules:

• Time
• Knowledge
• Mobile

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TimeKM TIME: Streamlined Activity Tracking
TimeKM’s executive activity tracking is built from the perspective of the busy attorney, not the accounting system. We know a tracking system will not be useful unless it becomes part of the attorney’s natural work process, so we built TimeKM to become part of whatever you do.

The TimeKM tracking environment becomes a constant companion. It instantly appears on any screen (Word, e-mail, etc.) on your desktop, so you don’t have to leave what you are doing to go jot down time. It provides you with a simple, predictable, tracking companion, so you don’t need to change your ways. TimeKM takes less than 10 minutes to learn and less than 10 seconds to use.

Every attorney knows, the most important part of time tracking is to get it down as soon as you do the work, before you move on to other matter and risk forgetting. With TimeKM, if you don’t have all the details or don’t have time to check the numbers, that’s all right. Partial entries are quickly captured for later attention. You share your TimeKM worksheet with your secretary who can review and revise it in whichever way you work best.

Access at anytime, from anywhere (and from almost any computing device!) ensures that on-the-go lawyers can quickly jot-down activity whenever and wherever it occurs. (see Mobile below) As a result, you recover more of your value with improved accuracy – without increasing your effort or aggravation!

TimeKM KNOWLEDGE: The Daily Funnel
When you meet with a client, take a phone call, draft a document or research an issue, you often acquire new knowledge or information that can be re-used or leveraged within your firm. In the long term the most competitive law firms will be those who can effectively tap and exploit the daily flow of collective knowledge in the firm.

How can you find your daily knowledge? We know the one moment when a lawyer is thinking about the client, the case, the business, and the practice is when he or she is doing the work or recording it for billing purposes. So, the one sure place where knowledge can be gathered is the place where every lawyer must naturally go each day: time tracking. That's why we combined the knowledge and time into one streamlined capture system.

TimeKM's unique, patent-pending process offers a quick, practical way to capture knowledge while recording time or working on e-mail, documents, websites and other places.

TimeKM MOBILE: Anytime, Anywhere, Any device!
Attorneys are spending a lot more time working away from their desks: in meetings, in court, with clients and from home. Yet, work performed outside the office is often forgotten, underestimated, or inaccurate - unless it’s captured immediately. More lawyers are carrying a Blackberry™ or Treo™ wireless device to stay connected without physical connections, but mobile e-mail is not enough to recover the value of mobile activity.