Intelligent Legal Reporting Software Delivers Powerful Learnings

Quickly identify your most lucrative practice areas and matters to focus your firm’s activity and business development efforts. Smokeball’s Law Firm Insights use real-time data to inform smarter decision-making, showing your most recent firm activity at a glance. Configure our Firm Insight Reporting and Dashboards to your specific practice area and firm, so you get the data you need for sound decisions.

Financial-focused Firm Insight Reports, including trust statements and income allocation reports, keep you well informed about all your firm’s accounting efforts. Quickly identify red flags, monitor work in progress and rest comfortably knowing your finances are compliant.

Smokeball’s Firm Insights and Reports help you track progress and profitability against firm-wide deadlines and goals. And for an added level of protection, Smokeball’s Firm Insights are only available to admin-level users. Break down your Firm Insights by:

• Individual matter profitability

• Court and settlement date

• Matter type profitability

• Profitability by fee earner/staff

• Billing status

• Matter stage

• And more

What it shows: Use this report to analyze firm trends. You can quickly understand what matters have been opened in the past week, month and year, broken down by matter type, referral source and responsible attorney.

Why it’s valuable: This report can help you understand where to spend money on advertising, marketing, hiring, and business development.

What it shows: Use these reports to analyze each lead source, including referrals and matters opened within various time frames.

Why it’s valuable: New Matter Insights + Lead Insights helps you understand which people or referral resources bring clients through your door.

What it shows: Use this report to understand your fees created over time, broken down by fee type, top clients and top matter types.

Why it’s valuable: Fee insights help you follow up with delinquent clients, adjust your fees and spot areas of growth.

What it shows: Use this report to see whether your firm uses Smokeball to its full potential. Review the number of matters created, files stored, documents automated and other Smokeball actions in a week.

Why it’s valuable: Your usage report benchmarks your usage compared to similar firms. It’s also a great way to see whether you’re ready to activate a new area of automation or if certain firm members could use more focused Smokeball training.

What it shows: Use this report to review your firm’s average daily billing performance. You can also filter this data by fee-earner.

Why it’s valuable: Understand what work you’re billing daily and the number of lost billable hours. You can also see if a fee earner bills what seems too many hours on a particular task. They may need some coaching and guidance.

What it shows: Whatever you like!

Why it’s valuable: While almost every report you need is readily available in Smokeball, you may have created or used custom reports in the past. If the required data already exists in Smokeball, our team can build you a custom report.

Side-by-side work isn’t always possible, or best. Smokeball’s matter reporting shows your whole team who’s doing what, when, and on which case. Keep on top of your deadlines with area-of-law-specific reporting that shows every upcoming court date and settlement date; statues of limitations; and matters with no activity in a certain time period.

Without desk-side check-ins, how can you be sure everyone’s on-task? Smokeball Law Firm Insights use automatic time tracking to break down per-earner activity. Gain better visibility into your most productive employees — and those who need support.

Put the right people on the right cases, and easily identify any risks or blockages with Law Firm Insights.