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Meet LegalMate in Boston
Heading to ClioCon Oct 26-27?
Meet LegalMate in Boston
Heading to ClioCon Oct 26-27?
Meet LegalMate in Boston
Heading to ClioCon Oct 26-27?
Meet LegalMate in Boston
Time Miner alternative for Clio and Filevine firms
Time Miner vs LegalMate: which one for a phone-heavy firm?
Time Miner mines your call, text and email logs after the fact and turns the qualifying ones into time entries you review and export to Clio. LegalMate records and transcribes every client call on RingCentral, Dialpad, Zoom Phone or Quo and writes the summary, the matter note, the follow-up task and a detailed time entry in Clio or Filevine the same day. One bills the log. The other bills the conversation.
20 minutes. We walk through the unbilled-time math for your firm.
Integrates with
& more
Integrates with
& more
Why LegalMate?
Why phone-heavy firms choose LegalMate over Time Miner.
Time Miner is a retroactive time capture tool that mines your logs. LegalMate is communication intelligence for the phone system you already use, into Clio and Filevine.
A call log is not a call record.
Time Miner reads the log: who you spoke to, when, and for how long, then suggests a time entry for each billable contact when you run a mine. LegalMate records and transcribes the call itself, so the time entry arrives with the summary, the matter note and the follow-up task, logged to the matter in Clio or Filevine the same day. The whole firm knows what was said, not just how long it took.
Same-day entries, written your way.
Time Miner creates entries for qualifying calls, texts and emails that you review and export to Clio, after you link each contact to its matter by hand. LegalMate auto-matches every call to the client and matter, writes the time entry in detail from the transcript, and lets you prompt notes and entries to fit your practice area and the way your firm bills.
Texts and calls are where the file moves.
Time Miner mines call and text logs from RingCentral, Dialpad, your carrier or an Android phone, and email metadata from Gmail and Outlook. LegalMate logs and times calls and texts on RingCentral, Dialpad, Zoom Phone or Quo today, your email is searched and surfaced by the LegalMate agent, and you can ask Claude, ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot about your firm’s calls through the LegalMate MCP connector. Time Miner captures what the logs show.
Why LegalMate?
Why phone-heavy firms choose LegalMate over Time Miner.
Time Miner is a retroactive time capture tool that mines your logs. LegalMate is communication intelligence for the phone system you already use, into Clio and Filevine.
A call log is not a call record.
Time Miner reads the log: who you spoke to, when, and for how long, then suggests a time entry for each billable contact when you run a mine. LegalMate records and transcribes the call itself, so the time entry arrives with the summary, the matter note and the follow-up task, logged to the matter in Clio or Filevine the same day. The whole firm knows what was said, not just how long it took.
Same-day entries, written your way.
Time Miner creates entries for qualifying calls, texts and emails that you review and export to Clio, after you link each contact to its matter by hand. LegalMate auto-matches every call to the client and matter, writes the time entry in detail from the transcript, and lets you prompt notes and entries to fit your practice area and the way your firm bills.
Texts and calls are where the file moves.
Time Miner mines call and text logs from RingCentral, Dialpad, your carrier or an Android phone, and email metadata from Gmail and Outlook. LegalMate logs and times calls and texts on RingCentral, Dialpad, Zoom Phone or Quo today, your email is searched and surfaced by the LegalMate agent, and you can ask Claude, ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot about your firm’s calls through the LegalMate MCP connector. Time Miner captures what the logs show.
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Why LegalMate?
Why phone-heavy firms choose LegalMate over Time Miner.
Time Miner is a retroactive time capture tool that mines your logs. LegalMate is communication intelligence for the phone system you already use, into Clio and Filevine.
A call log is not a call record.
Time Miner reads the log: who you spoke to, when, and for how long, then suggests a time entry for each billable contact when you run a mine. LegalMate records and transcribes the call itself, so the time entry arrives with the summary, the matter note and the follow-up task, logged to the matter in Clio or Filevine the same day. The whole firm knows what was said, not just how long it took.
Same-day entries, written your way.
Time Miner creates entries for qualifying calls, texts and emails that you review and export to Clio, after you link each contact to its matter by hand. LegalMate auto-matches every call to the client and matter, writes the time entry in detail from the transcript, and lets you prompt notes and entries to fit your practice area and the way your firm bills.
Texts and calls are where the file moves.
Time Miner mines call and text logs from RingCentral, Dialpad, your carrier or an Android phone, and email metadata from Gmail and Outlook. LegalMate logs and times calls and texts on RingCentral, Dialpad, Zoom Phone or Quo today, your email is searched and surfaced by the LegalMate agent, and you can ask Claude, ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot about your firm’s calls through the LegalMate MCP connector. Time Miner captures what the logs show.
Time Miner vs LegalMate
What’s the difference?
LegalMate is built for family, PI, immigration and criminal defense practices where the file moves by phone. Every client call, opposing counsel call and text becomes a matter note, a billable entry at the timekeeper’s rate, and a follow-up task through the LegalMate Clio integration or Filevine integration, from the phone system you already run.
Feature
Time Miner
Time Miner
LegalMate
LegalMate
Works on your phone system
RingCentral and Dialpad, plus carrier call and text logs from Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile; Zoom Phone and Quo not listed
RingCentral and Dialpad, plus carrier call and text logs from Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile; Zoom Phone and Quo not listed
Runs on RingCentral, Dialpad, Zoom Phone or Quo
Runs on RingCentral, Dialpad, Zoom Phone or Quo
Built around
Retroactive time capture: mine your logs for a date range, review the suggested entries, export
Retroactive time capture: mine your logs for a date range, review the suggested entries, export
Calls and texts on the phone system you already run, plus email searched by the LegalMate agent
Calls and texts on the phone system you already run, plus email searched by the LegalMate agent
What a client call becomes
A suggested time entry from the log: who, when and how long
A suggested time entry from the log: who, when and how long
Transcript, AI summary, matter note, follow-up task and a detailed time entry, logged to the matter
Transcript, AI summary, matter note, follow-up task and a detailed time entry, logged to the matter
Call transcripts
Not documented
Not documented
Full searchable transcript in Clio and LegalMate. Ask the LegalMate agent to catch you up on a client and it retrieves every file note: client calls, opposing counsel, the court
Full searchable transcript in Clio and LegalMate. Ask the LegalMate agent to catch you up on a client and it retrieves every file note: client calls, opposing counsel, the court
Matter matching
Each contact linked to a Clio matter by hand; only contacts marked billable are mined
Each contact linked to a Clio matter by hand; only contacts marked billable are mined
Every call and text auto-matched and logged to the matter
Every call and text auto-matched and logged to the matter
Time entries
Created for qualifying calls, texts and emails when you run a mine; you review and export to Clio or MyCase
Created for qualifying calls, texts and emails when you run a mine; you review and export to Clio or MyCase
Detailed entry written from the transcript, in your firm’s billing style
Detailed entry written from the transcript, in your firm’s billing style
Text messages
Text logs mined from RingCentral, Dialpad, carrier records or an Android phone
Text logs mined from RingCentral, Dialpad, carrier records or an Android phone
Daily text threads on the matter, each one billable
Daily text threads on the matter, each one billable
Gmail and Outlook metadata mined into time entries; the first fetch goes back 30 days
Gmail and Outlook metadata mined into time entries; the first fetch goes back 30 days
Searched and surfaced by the LegalMate agent, never logged
Searched and surfaced by the LegalMate agent, never logged
Follow-up tasks
Not documented
Not documented
Follow-ups become Clio tasks, and the Waiting-on-us list flags replies that are late or at risk
Follow-ups become Clio tasks, and the Waiting-on-us list flags replies that are late or at risk
Attorney workflow
Run a mine, review the suggested entries, export; entries can take up to 45 minutes to appear in Clio
Run a mine, review the suggested entries, export; entries can take up to 45 minutes to appear in Clio
No dashboard to check; entries arrive in Clio or Filevine as drafts to approve or edit
No dashboard to check; entries arrive in Clio or Filevine as drafts to approve or edit
Ask your AI assistant
Not documented
Not documented
Read-only MCP connector for Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot
Read-only MCP connector for Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot
When the time gets logged
After the fact: mining runs when you start it, for the dates you pick; a Deep Dive goes back years for fee disputes
After the fact: mining runs when you start it, for the dates you pick; a Deep Dive goes back years for fee disputes
Same day: every call and text logged to the matter as it happens
Same day: every call and text logged to the matter as it happens
Time Miner is a legitimate option for a firm that bills from a month-end review of its logs and wants the calls, texts and emails it forgot to time. The comparison is really about whether you want the time or the whole conversation.
Honest fit
Who each one is right for.
We would rather tell you now than after onboarding. If you are in the middle column, we are not the right fit yet.
LegalMate fits if
Your billable work happens on the phone and by text, and you want every call recorded, auto-matched and logged the day it happens
You want the note, the task and the time entry written from the transcript, in your firm’s own style
You are on Clio or Filevine with RingCentral, Dialpad, Zoom Phone or Quo, and want capture live this month
LegalMate is not for you if
You are a solo practice or under four team members
The firm takes fewer than ~150 client calls a month
Your phones are not on RingCentral, Dialpad, Zoom Phone or Quo
You are not on Clio Manage or Filevine
Time Miner fits if
You want your cell-phone carrier call and text logs mined, or you bill from a month-end review of suggested entries
Most of what you miss is email and calendar time, and you want years of history mined for a fee petition or audit
You are on MyCase, or you want a per-user tool each timekeeper runs for themselves
A system that works
Already on RingCentral, Dialpad, Zoom Phone or Quo? Keep it.
Already on RingCentral, Dialpad, Zoom Phone or Quo? Keep it.
LegalMate connects to your existing account in one session. AI notes, auto-matched matters and detailed time entries on every call and text, without running a mine or reviewing a month of suggested entries.
LegalMate connects to your existing account in one session. AI notes, auto-matched matters and detailed time entries on every call and text, without running a mine or reviewing a month of suggested entries.
FAQ
Your questions answered.
Still have questions? Book a free call and we will walk you through it on your own call logs.
Is Time Miner a replacement for LegalMate?
No. They do different jobs. Time Miner is a retroactive time capture tool: it mines your call, text and email logs for a date range, suggests a time entry for each billable contact and exports what you approve to Clio or MyCase. LegalMate records and transcribes the call itself on your phone system and writes the summary, the matter note, the follow-up task and a detailed time entry in Clio or Filevine the same day. If you need the record of what was said, not just that a call happened, Time Miner does not document that.
Is Time Miner cheaper than LegalMate?
Per user, often. Per firm, it depends on what you count. Time Miner prices per user per month, and each timekeeper runs their own mines, links their own contacts to matters and reviews their own entries. LegalMate is one clear price for the firm with full functionality included, and it writes the note, the task and the time entry for every call and text, so nobody has to ask a paralegal what happened. Lower operational cost, higher efficiency. Book a call and we will run the full number for your firm.
Does Time Miner work with Clio?
Yes. Time Miner exports time entries to Clio once each contact is linked to a Clio matter, and its FAQ says exported entries can take up to 45 minutes to appear. LegalMate integrates with Clio too; the difference is what gets logged. Every call and text becomes a transcript, a summary, a matter note, a follow-up task and a time entry, not only the time.
Does Time Miner work with Filevine?
Filevine is not on Time Miner’s published integrations list, which covers Clio and MyCase. LegalMate integrates with both Clio and Filevine on your existing phone system.
Does Time Miner record or transcribe phone calls and texts?
Time Miner mines call and text logs: the number, the time and the duration, from RingCentral, Dialpad, carrier records on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, or an Android phone. It does not document call recording, transcripts, summaries or notes. LegalMate records and transcribes every call on RingCentral, Dialpad, Zoom Phone or Quo, writes the summary, the note and the time entry from the transcript, and syncs texts as daily threads on the matter so each day can be billed.
Can I use Time Miner and LegalMate together?
You could. A firm might keep Time Miner for email and calendar time, for MyCase, or for a Deep Dive on old email in a fee dispute. If both connect to the same RingCentral or Dialpad account, tell us on the call and we will scope how call time is handled so nothing is billed twice.
Does LegalMate replace my phone system?
No. LegalMate connects to the phone system you already run (RingCentral, Dialpad, Zoom Phone or Quo) and to Clio or Filevine. Your numbers, plans, desk phones and devices stay exactly as they are.
What does LegalMate log for each call or text?
A searchable transcript, an AI summary prompted to your practice area, the call communication and phone activity on the matter it was auto-matched to, a detailed billable time entry written from the transcript, and any follow-up tasks. Texts sync as daily threads on the matter, so each day can be billed.
Do attorneys have to change how they work?
No. There is no mine to run, no dashboard to check and no per-user sign-up. After the one-time connection, every call and text is logged to the matter in the background. Entries arrive as drafts the attorney can approve or edit.
What does LegalMate cost?
One clear price with full functionality included; nothing is held back for a higher tier. Book a free call and we will quote it for your timekeeper count and walk through the unbilled-time math per attorney: calls per month, minutes per call, blended rate.
Where does my call data go?
Time Miner states AES-256 encryption and says it reads Gmail metadata only, not the body of your emails; it does not publish where its servers are. All LegalMate servers are US-based, and we support firms in the EU, Canada and Australia. LegalMate also runs a zero data retention policy: your call data is processed for your Clio or Filevine records, not kept.
Can I ask Claude or ChatGPT about my calls?
Yes. The LegalMate MCP connector gives Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot read-only access to your firm’s call summaries, notes and transcripts, with every answer linked back to the call in LegalMate. It needs a LegalMate account, and the 7-day free trial includes it. Time Miner does not document an equivalent.
FAQ
Your questions answered.
Everything you need to know about working with us. Still have questions? Book a free call and we'll walk you through it.
Is Time Miner a replacement for LegalMate?
No. They do different jobs. Time Miner is a retroactive time capture tool: it mines your call, text and email logs for a date range, suggests a time entry for each billable contact and exports what you approve to Clio or MyCase. LegalMate records and transcribes the call itself on your phone system and writes the summary, the matter note, the follow-up task and a detailed time entry in Clio or Filevine the same day. If you need the record of what was said, not just that a call happened, Time Miner does not document that.
Is Time Miner cheaper than LegalMate?
Per user, often. Per firm, it depends on what you count. Time Miner prices per user per month, and each timekeeper runs their own mines, links their own contacts to matters and reviews their own entries. LegalMate is one clear price for the firm with full functionality included, and it writes the note, the task and the time entry for every call and text, so nobody has to ask a paralegal what happened. Lower operational cost, higher efficiency. Book a call and we will run the full number for your firm.
Does Time Miner work with Clio?
Yes. Time Miner exports time entries to Clio once each contact is linked to a Clio matter, and its FAQ says exported entries can take up to 45 minutes to appear. LegalMate integrates with Clio too; the difference is what gets logged. Every call and text becomes a transcript, a summary, a matter note, a follow-up task and a time entry, not only the time.
Does Time Miner work with Filevine?
Filevine is not on Time Miner’s published integrations list, which covers Clio and MyCase. LegalMate integrates with both Clio and Filevine on your existing phone system.
Does Time Miner record or transcribe phone calls and texts?
Time Miner mines call and text logs: the number, the time and the duration, from RingCentral, Dialpad, carrier records on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, or an Android phone. It does not document call recording, transcripts, summaries or notes. LegalMate records and transcribes every call on RingCentral, Dialpad, Zoom Phone or Quo, writes the summary, the note and the time entry from the transcript, and syncs texts as daily threads on the matter so each day can be billed.
Can I use Time Miner and LegalMate together?
You could. A firm might keep Time Miner for email and calendar time, for MyCase, or for a Deep Dive on old email in a fee dispute. If both connect to the same RingCentral or Dialpad account, tell us on the call and we will scope how call time is handled so nothing is billed twice.
Does LegalMate replace my phone system?
No. LegalMate connects to the phone system you already run (RingCentral, Dialpad, Zoom Phone or Quo) and to Clio or Filevine. Your numbers, plans, desk phones and devices stay exactly as they are.
What does LegalMate log for each call or text?
A searchable transcript, an AI summary prompted to your practice area, the call communication and phone activity on the matter it was auto-matched to, a detailed billable time entry written from the transcript, and any follow-up tasks. Texts sync as daily threads on the matter, so each day can be billed.
Do attorneys have to change how they work?
No. There is no mine to run, no dashboard to check and no per-user sign-up. After the one-time connection, every call and text is logged to the matter in the background. Entries arrive as drafts the attorney can approve or edit.
What does LegalMate cost?
One clear price with full functionality included; nothing is held back for a higher tier. Book a free call and we will quote it for your timekeeper count and walk through the unbilled-time math per attorney: calls per month, minutes per call, blended rate.
Where does my call data go?
Time Miner states AES-256 encryption and says it reads Gmail metadata only, not the body of your emails; it does not publish where its servers are. All LegalMate servers are US-based, and we support firms in the EU, Canada and Australia. LegalMate also runs a zero data retention policy: your call data is processed for your Clio or Filevine records, not kept.
Can I ask Claude or ChatGPT about my calls?
Yes. The LegalMate MCP connector gives Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot read-only access to your firm’s call summaries, notes and transcripts, with every answer linked back to the call in LegalMate. It needs a LegalMate account, and the 7-day free trial includes it. Time Miner does not document an equivalent.
Time is your inventory
Every client call, understood and billed. Your phones.
Book a 20-minute call. We walk through your call and text volume and the unbilled-time math per attorney.