CASE STUDY: COPYRIGHT © ADERANT | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | CMMXX How Severson & Werson Drives Compliance with Contemporaneous Time Entry The Challenge The culture at Severson & Werson isn’t policy driven. The firm operates under very few rules, and until recently had no formal time entry policy in place. While a handful of attorneys at the firm dutifully entered their time daily, most did not. In fact, most attorneys’ time entry was submitted 30 days after the work was completed. Timekeeping simply wasn’t a priority for Severson’s 120 attorneys managing aggressive case loads. Given the lag between action and entry, the firm’s management suspected that the firm was missing out on billable hours that weren’t being recorded. After all, how accurate can a time sheet be when a busy attorney

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