LegalDocumentTools

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Documents fail on details, not on substance

Four tools for document work: convert review minutes into billable units honestly, estimate a production or drafting project by timekeeper level, and work through the review and closing steps that get skipped under time pressure.

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Document Review Time Calculator

Convert review minutes into billable units under your rounding rule, and see what a review session is actually worth.

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Results update as you type. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Result

Billable units

8

Value at your rate

$260.00

Billed hours
0.8
Minutes worked
47
Minutes billed
48
Rounding difference
1
Value per unit
$32.50
Units per hour
10

This tool performs arithmetic on the values you enter. It does not provide legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship.

Six-minute increments (tenths of an hour) are the most common billing unit, but the agreed increment belongs in the engagement letter.

Rounding every short task up adds real money across a year - and it is also the thing clients audit most closely. Use the rule your engagement letter states.

Read the full guide, worked examples and FAQ for this calculator →

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The problems that arise with legal documents are rarely questions of legal skill. A cross-reference to a renumbered clause. A defined term used before it is defined. Metadata revealing which client the precedent came from. An execution block for the wrong entity type.

All of those are process failures, and process failures are fixed with process. These tools cover the two document tasks that carry real money - billing review time and estimating production cost - and the two checklists that catch the rest.

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Why use LegalDocumentTools

Review time billed honestly

Document review is the task most exposed to increment arithmetic. The calculator shows what your logging convention actually produces against the clock.

Production costed by level

Staffing decides the blended rate on document-heavy work far more than the rate card does. Estimating by level makes that visible.

Vendor costs kept separate

Hosting, processing and printing scale with volume rather than effort. Keeping them out of the fee estimate makes both numbers defensible.

Checklists saved locally

Review and closing checklists that keep their state in your own browser. Nothing uploaded, and downloadable as text for the file.

How it works

  1. Estimate a document project by timekeeper level before agreeing to a budget.
  2. Log review time in blocks and convert it with the increment your engagement letter states.
  3. Run the document checklist before anything leaves the office.
  4. Assemble the closing binder during the closing, not after it.

Frequently asked questions

Is this legal advice?

No. This website provides general informational and productivity tools and does not provide legal advice or create an attorney-client relationship.

Should each document reviewed be a separate time entry?

That is an engagement-letter question. Block logging with the document count in the narrative is common, reconciles to the clock, and is generally easier to defend in a fee audit.

Do the checklists cover my jurisdiction?

No. Execution formalities, witnessing requirements and filing obligations differ by jurisdiction and entity type. The checklists flag that these need checking, not what the answer is.

Are my checklist entries stored anywhere?

Only in your own browser, using local storage. Nothing is uploaded, and clearing site data removes it.

Why is metadata on the checklist?

Because a precedent named after another client is a confidentiality problem, not an embarrassment. Scrubbing takes seconds and is the highest-value item for anything sent externally.