Billing, Time & Finance Rankings

Where Clio data says lawyers lose the most time — and where the biggest tool opportunity exists.

30 pain points · 10 competing vendors

Leaderboard

# Vendor G S B Score Global Rank
1 TimeSolv 3 3 2 17 #60
2 Sage Timeslips 4 1 1 15 #360
3 Shieldpay 2 1 7 #190
4 Caseglide 1 2 7 #235
5 apperio 1 1 2 7 —
6 Pay Near Me 2 6 #8
7 Priori 1 1 5 #23
8 Leanlaw 1 1 5 #149
9 Billables AI 2 4 #359
10 Clio 1 3 #6

Global (21)

Billable time estimated from memory hours after the work

Sev 3 90 vendors Acuity #88
  1. #1 Clio rlegaltech #6
  2. #2 Sage Timeslips rlegaltech #360
  3. #3 Meruscase rlegaltech #40
  4. #4 Actionstep rlegaltech #16
  5. #5 PracticePanther rlegaltech #24

In-house legal team spends $3M+ annually across 15 outside firms but has no visibility into whether...

Sev 3 45 vendors Acuity #165
  1. #1 Infinity Loop rlegaltech #86
  2. #2 Priori rlegaltech #23
  3. #3 Lawtrades rlegaltech #107
  4. #4 Brightflag rlegaltech #136
  5. #5 Tymetrix 360 rlegaltech #56

Practice management and accounting are two different planets

Sev 2 36 vendors Acuity #187
  1. #1 Sage Timeslips rlegaltech #360
  2. #2 Actionstep rlegaltech #16
  3. #3 TimeSolv rlegaltech #60
  4. #4 Tabs3 rlegaltech #248
  5. #5 Leanlaw rlegaltech #149

Mid-size law firm has used the same desktop billing software for 15 years and it works

Sev 2 16 vendors Acuity #41
  1. #1 Sage Timeslips rlegaltech #360
  2. #2 TimeSolv rlegaltech #60
  3. #3 Remote Legal rlegaltech #35
  4. #4 Suited rlegaltech #38
  5. #5 legalsense

Plaintiff attorney shifts to flat-fee or contingency-plus models but has no way to price cases...

Sev 2 15 vendors Acuity #250
  1. #1 Leanlaw rlegaltech #149
  2. #2 Eve rlegaltech #65
  3. #3 smart-lockup-assistant
  4. #4 Fasteroutcomes rlegaltech #257
  5. #5 altfee

When my firm's 20-year-old desktop billing system finally can

Sev 3 14 vendors Acuity #79
  1. #1 Sage Timeslips rlegaltech #360
  2. #2 TimeSolv rlegaltech #60
  3. #3 Ansarada rlegaltech #254
  4. #4 federate
  5. #5 Deepjudge rlegaltech #114

Law firm's collections process is a manual afterthought — aging AR spreadsheet updated weekly,...

Sev 3 13 vendors Acuity #100
  1. #1 Pay Near Me rlegaltech #8
  2. #2 TimeSolv rlegaltech #60
  3. #3 Retrievables rlegaltech #271
  4. #4 Profitsolv rlegaltech #162
  5. #5 collbox

Associate or paralegal spends 2-3 hours daily on repetitive administrative tasks

Sev 3 13 vendors Acuity #226
  1. #1 Bighand Workflow Management rlegaltech #244
  2. #2 Caddi rlegaltech #130
  3. #3 Legalmate rlegaltech #380
  4. #4 Billables AI rlegaltech #359
  5. #5 deliberately-ai

Corporate client sends a 50-page outside counsel guidelines document with 200+ billing rules

Sev 4 10 vendors Acuity #252
  1. #1 Aderant Onyx rlegaltech #154
  2. #2 Caseglide rlegaltech #235
  3. #3 apperio
  4. #4 smart-lockup-assistant
  5. #5 poppy-legal

Insurance claims supervisor managing 500 litigated matters across 15 panel defense firms has no...

Sev 4 9 vendors Acuity #247
  1. #1 Caseglide rlegaltech #235
  2. #2 apperio
  3. #3 poppy-legal
  4. #4 Claimdeck rlegaltech #351
  5. #5 acuity-elm

BigLaw billing coordinators spend days processing proformas

Sev 3 8 vendors Acuity #222
  1. #1 Elite rlegaltech #39
  2. #2 Billables AI rlegaltech #359
  3. #3 Oddr rlegaltech #283
  4. #4 Aderant Onyx rlegaltech #154
  5. #5 Accurate Legal Billing rlegaltech #315

Solo/small firm invoice review is a one-at-a-time slog

Sev 2 7 vendors Acuity #98
  1. #1 Sage Timeslips rlegaltech #360
  2. #2 PracticePanther rlegaltech #24
  3. #3 TimeSolv rlegaltech #60
  4. #4 Leanlaw rlegaltech #149
  5. #5 Oddr rlegaltech #283

Small-to-mid firm uses Online for accounting but needs legal-specific billing features (trust...

Sev 3 7 vendors Acuity #73
  1. #1 TimeSolv rlegaltech #60
  2. #2 Leanlaw rlegaltech #149
  3. #3 Sage Timeslips rlegaltech #360
  4. #4 federate
  5. #5 Cosmo Lex rlegaltech #92

Corporate IP department needs to report to management on the full cost of maintaining its patent...

Sev 3 7 vendors Acuity #228
  1. #1 Patrix rlegaltech #172
  2. #2 Patentrenewal rlegaltech #261
  3. #3 prokurio
  4. #4 inspireip
  5. #5 aalbul-ltd

Mid-size firm runs 200+ open matters but has zero visibility into which ones are on budget

Sev 3 7 vendors Acuity #276
  1. #1 apperio
  2. #2 legalsense
  3. #3 altfee
  4. #4 Hivelight rlegaltech #421
  5. #5 myfirmdata

Attorneys forget to record time and reconstruct their day from memory at 7pm

Sev 3 5 vendors Acuity #119
  1. #1 TimeSolv rlegaltech #60
  2. #2 Billables AI rlegaltech #359
  3. #3 chrometa
  4. #4 Surepoint Legal Management System Lms rlegaltech #277
  5. #5 billseye

Growing startup's 2-person legal team needs outside counsel for a new practice area (trademark...

Sev 2 5 vendors Acuity #105
  1. #1 Priori rlegaltech #23
  2. #2 Upcounsel rlegaltech #101
  3. #3 apperio
  4. #4 poppy-legal
  5. #5 priori-scout

Pricing or finance team at a law firm has years of billing history locked in or 3E

Sev 3 4 vendors Acuity #289
  1. #1 lexpipe
  2. #2 altfee
  3. #3 bighand-matter-pricing
  4. #4 clocktimizer

Litigation funder has invested in 50+ mass tort cases across 10 law firms but has no real-time...

Sev 3 2 vendors
  1. #1 Bridge Legal rlegaltech #119
  2. #2 Caseglide rlegaltech #235

Law firm finance team has vendor invoices, card charges, and employee expenses in three different...

Sev 3 2 vendors
  1. #1 xpens-ai
  2. #2 nth-degree-tech

When I'm running one firm across several offices that bill through different entities and...

Sev 4 1 vendors
  1. #1 lex247

United States (6)

Class action settlement awarded $42M to 500,000 claimants but distributing the money takes 6 months...

Sev 4 19 vendors Acuity #22
  1. #1 Talli rlegaltech #187
  2. #2 Angeion rlegaltech #216
  3. #3 Shieldpay rlegaltech #190
  4. #4 nrf-matter-hub
  5. #5 Goodlawyer rlegaltech #11

Immigration attorney's clients need to pay legal fees but half of them are unbanked — they don't

Sev 5 4 vendors Acuity #17
  1. #1 Pay Near Me rlegaltech #8
  2. #2 feesier
  3. #3 gravity-legal
  4. #4 juspay

Referral tracking is a mess — PI firms owe percentages to referring attorneys but tracking who sent

Sev 4 3 vendors Acuity #20
  1. #1 Litify rlegaltech #15
  2. #2 qase
  3. #3 cocounselor

PI firm tracks liens from 15+ sources

Sev 5 3 vendors Acuity #24
  1. #1 Cloudlex rlegaltech #41
  2. #2 Quilia rlegaltech #492
  3. #3 casepeer

Hospital record department charges $200+ for copies of a client

Sev 2 2 vendors
  1. #1 Chartsquad rlegaltech #191
  2. #2 arctrieval

Mid-size firm outgrows or Tabs3 but 3E or feel like overkill

Sev 2 2 vendors Acuity #30
  1. #1 TimeSolv rlegaltech #60
  2. #2 Surepoint Legal Management System Lms rlegaltech #277

United Kingdom (3)

Law firm completing a £50M M&A deal needs to hold completion funds in escrow

Sev 5 1 vendors
  1. #1 Shieldpay rlegaltech #190

Conveyancing firm handles 500 property completions a month and each one requires receiving, holding

Sev 5 1 vendors
  1. #1 Shieldpay rlegaltech #190

After winning a litigation matter the attorney needs to prepare a detailed bill of costs for...

Sev 3 1 vendors
  1. #1 briefco-new