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What is mechanical case work costing you?

Chasing records, reading bills, tracking liens, telling clients where their case stands. Put your own numbers in and see what that time adds up to.

Your numbers

People doing case management work, not attorneys.
Roughly what one person carries at a time.
Per person, chasing records, reading bills, tracking liens and sending status updates.
Fully loaded - salary, tax and benefits, not take-home pay.

This is the assumption doing the most work on this page, so it is yours to set rather than ours to bury. It starts at 40% because a number has to start somewhere - we have not measured one, so move it to whatever you would actually believe.

83 hrs

Reclaimed each month

Across the team, out of 208 spent on mechanical work.

0.5

Full-time people, equivalent

What those hours add up to at a 40-hour week.

$3,162

Salary cost, per month

$37,939 a year at the rate you entered.

+28

Cases of extra capacity

If that time went onto more files, at your team's current cases per person.

What this does not claim

There is no revenue figure here, and that is deliberate. Multiplying spare capacity by an average fee would be the biggest number on this page and the least defensible - it assumes every case you have room for is a case you can sign, which is our assumption to make, not yours.

These are estimates from figures you supplied, for your own discussion. They are not a guarantee of results.

How it is worked out

Four inputs, no hidden multiplier

Mechanical hours per person per week, times your headcount, times 52/12 - not four, which quietly loses a month a year. That gives the monthly total. The share you set is applied to it, and the result is costed at the hourly rate you entered. Capacity uses your team's own cases-per-person rate rather than a figure of ours, so it is a projection from how your firm actually works rather than a claim about our software.

Why there is no revenue number

Most calculators of this kind end with a large annual revenue figure, reached by multiplying spare capacity by an average case fee. We have left it out on purpose. That number assumes every case you have room for is a case you can sign, and whether that is true depends on your marketing, your intake and your market - none of which we know anything about.

It would also be the biggest number on the page and the easiest to argue with, which is a poor trade for a figure meant to help you make a decision rather than help us make a sale.

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We will go through them with you against your actual caseload, and tell you plainly if the case does not hold up.

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