Law Firm Timekeeper Rate & Spend Dashboard
An interactive analytics dashboard designed to analyze law firm timekeeper rates, rate growth, and spend patterns across vendors, matters, regions, and staff levels. The dashboard enables easy comparison of timekeeper costs across countries, tracks rate changes over time, and supports data-driven decisions for managing legal spend.
Client Overview
The client is a Canadian professional investment management organization whose purpose is to help provide a foundation upon which more than 22 million Canadians build their financial security in retirement.
Technical Stack
Industry
Services
Region
Canada
Project-size
Non-Disclosable
Company size
Large scale company
Implementation Highlights
Integrated timekeeper, rate history, invoice, and matter data from AWS Athena.
Built visuals such as rate heatmaps, average rate by country, and top timekeepers by spend.
Enabled drill down analysis from law firm to individual timekeeper level.
Added filters for staff class, region, invoice year, and currency.
Challenges & Solutions
Timekeeper and rate data existed across multiple tables with no unified view.
Solution: Created a standardized Tableau data model for consistent analysis.
Difficulty identifying rate growth trends and cost outliers.
Solution: Implemented YoY rate growth heatmaps and comparative visuals.
Manual effort to evaluate vendor efficiency
Solution: Built automated analytics for spend, rate comparison, and usage trends
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8+
Years of Business
Experience
100+
Happy
Customers
15+
Countries with
Happy Customers
100+
Agile enabled
employees
Results & Impact
- Improved visibility into global rate variations.
- Enabled faster and more accurate analysis of legal spend.
- Identified high growth timekeeper rates for negotiation planning.
- Increased transparency across vendors, matters, and timekeepers.
Key Learnings & Achievement
- The timekeeper analytics solution has been formalized into a reusable framework, allowing other organizations to adopt and adapt the approach for legal spend tracking. This positions the solution as a reliable model for managing law firm rates and spend patterns globally.
- Integrating timekeeper, rate history, and matter data into a single analytics platform is essential to uncover rate trends and cost outliers. Interactive visualizations and automated reporting enhance transparency, support strategic negotiations, and streamline cross-regional legal spend management.
