While legal professionals can't ignore all the tedium they encounter in a day, they can make it easier on themselves. Automated timekeeping, a more advanced AI counterpoint to traditional timekeeping tools, can liberate time for the meaningful work lawyers actually want to do—like developing strategy, legal drafting, and advising clients. Timekeeping has long been recognized as an onerous, unsatisfying aspect of legal work (especially in private practice), so disruption in this area seems like an obvious opportunity for automation.
