Hey everyone, hoping someone here has figured out a better workflow.
I'm a CJA panel attorney and my current process for tracking and reporting time is honestly embarrassing. I use Hours Tracker on my phone throughout the week, then every 1-2 weeks I sit down and manually move everything into an Excel spreadsheet, clean it up to match the e-Voucher format, double check the 0.1 rounding, and then upload the CSV. The whole thing takes me 2-3 hours every time and feels completely overwhelming.
The things I specifically struggle with are remembering to log time at the moment it happens especially at jail visits where there's no signal, the reformatting step since Hours Tracker doesn't export in e-Voucher format so I'm always manually fixing columns, keeping track of which service code goes with which entry, and making sure I haven't accidentally gone over the statutory cap.
Is there a better way people are doing this? Are there tools built specifically for CJA billing that I'm missing? Or is everyone just suffering through Excel?
Would love to hear how other panel attorneys handle this.