Claude for Lawyers: How to Review, Log, and Fix Your Time with PointOne in Claude

What Does the PointOne Connector Let Claude Do?

• Find things. Look up clients, matters and timekeepers, and read billing rules and task codes.

• Read time. Read entries and captured-activity suggestions, summarize time, review existing compliance findings, and check active timers.

• Change time. Log entries, up to 100 at once. Edit them, move them to another date or matter, delete them, start and stop timers, and release finished time.

How Do Attorneys Connect PointOne to Claude?

First, PointOne has to turn the connector on for the firm. Then:

1. In Claude, search up "PointOne" in the connector directory and add the PointOne connector.

2. Sign in through the PointOne login window with the normal PointOne account.

3. Review the approval screen and approve the requested data categories.

4. Ask a question in plain language. Claude then selects the appropriate connector tools.

The connection remains active until it is removed in Claude or revoked from PointOne. Revocation stops access within about a minute, and firms can review PointOne’s other connections separately.

Which Permissions Does the Connector Ask For?

The approval screen may request some or all six permissions, depending on the user's prompt, and only user-approved actions in those scenarios will be executed. The one exception is timekeeper lookup: without firm-wide access, it returns only the connected user.

How Can Attorneys Use Claude to Review and Fix Their Time?

Attorneys can ask Claude to review their timesheets, identify existing issues, and change their own entries when the corresponding permissions are approved.

Examples include:

• “What did I bill on the Acme matter last month, and how much of it was non-billable?”

• “What did I work on yesterday that isn’t logged yet?”

• “How much unbilled work in progress do I have, by matter?”

• “Are there any compliance problems in my time this week?”

• “What are Acme’s billing guidelines on block billing?”

• “Which task codes should I be using on this matter?”

• “Log two hours to the Acme matter for reviewing the production protocol.”

• “Fix the narrative on yesterday’s 1.5-hour entry, it should say ‘drafted,’ not ‘reviewed.’”

• “Start a timer on the Henderson entry,” followed later by “Stop it.”

• “Delete the duplicate entry from Tuesday.”

• “Release my time for last week.”

How Can Firm Leaders Use Claude for Time Summaries and Billing Guidelines?

Owners and Admins with firm-wide read access can get summaries of released time for any colleague going back up to one year, or for the whole firm up to 31 days at a time. Unreleased drafts stay visible only to the people who wrote them. An attorney can also look back over their own time for up to one year.

If you run the firm's finances

Ask for released hours by client, matter or timekeeper, and get the totals without waiting for a report. Firm-wide totals cover up to 31 days at a time. You can track a matter against a fee cap or alternative fee arrangement by giving Claude the figure, or by pointing it to a cap written into the matter's billing rules. That supports mid-month realization checks and faster answers when a partner or client asks where a matter stands.

If you lead a practice group or office

Name the timekeepers on your team and see how their time is spread across a client or matter: who is carrying the load and where hours are concentrating. That gives you data for staffing and pricing conversations based on what was recorded, not on what people remember.

Example Claude Prompts for Law Firm Executives

• "Summarize released time on [Client] for September, grouped by matter and timekeeper."

• "Which billing rules apply to [Matter], and are any September entries likely to conflict with them?"

• "How many hours have [Name], [Name] and [Name] released in the last 30 days, by client?"

• "Show total released time on [Matter] this month against a budget of [$X]."

What Should You Check Before Claude Writes or Releases Time?

Check the entry’s narrative, matter, duration, codes, compliance status, and release state before allowing Claude to submit it.

Release is usually permanent and sends the entry toward the firm's billing system. Logging alone does not submit the entry, which means an integration that creates time without releasing it can leave work unavailable for billing. A release can be refused if:

• A release delay has been set

• The matter is missing or temporary

• A required code is missing

• The narrative is empty and the firm requires one

• The narrative is too long or uses a banned word

• The attorney isn't approved to bill that matter

What Can’t the Connector Do?

The connector cannot:

• Log or change anyone else's time, even for admins

• Set task codes (codes are readable but must be written in PointOne)

• Undo a release

• Get around firm-wide access rules

Note: you should always confirm actions made on Claude are accurately reflected in PointOne.

How Does the Connector Keep Firm Data Secure?

The PointOne login determines the user’s identity and firm, and database-level controls apply to every request.

Row-level security and ethical-wall filtering govern every read and write. A screened matter remains absent from search results, and its entries and rules remain inaccessible through Claude.

The connector is designed so that Claude reports rule text and compliance findings as data rather than following them as instructions, which reduces the risk that text within a client document redirects the assistant's behavior. Access credentials expire and refresh in the background, while revoking a connection stops access within about a minute.

Further details are available in PointOne’s security and compliance documentation.

Claude can make timekeeping data easier to query and update, but the connector’s value depends on clear permissions and careful release practices. Among current law firm AI tools, its boundaries are explicit: reads follow roles and ethical walls, while writes remain the connected user’s own work.

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