Slips in, bills out, and every trust dollar traced to its client. The exports from your old program move in with every left-out row named before anything is written.
| Date | Entry | Amount | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/02 | Retainer deposit, check 1042 | 12,500.00 | 12,500.00 |
| 05/14 | Filing fee, county clerk | 435.00 | 12,065.00 |
| 06/01 | Fees applied, bill KLC-00018 | 3,250.00 | 8,815.00 |
| 06/18 | Appraiser, disbursement | 900.00 | 7,915.00 |
Everything below is in the product today. Nothing on this page describes a plan.
Tenth of an hour increments, UTBMS categories and your own task codes, billable or not. Each entry picks up the right rate for the client, matter and timekeeper.
Every dollar traced to a client with a running balance. A disbursement that would overdraw a client is refused before it is written.
Clients read their invoices, pay by card through Stripe and message the firm, with the payment reconciled against the invoice.
Unbilled time and costs become a numbered bill in one step, in your own numbering, with terms, aging and payments tracked against the balance.
Filing deadlines and statute dates in one list, sorted by what is due next, with overdue entries flagged.
Search clients, matters and opposing counsel by name before a new case is accepted.
Low trust balances, depleted retainers, clients whose unbilled time exceeds their deposit, and statute dates ranked by urgency.
Overdue bills in aging buckets with a suggested next step, write-offs, and payments recorded by hand when a client pays by check.
Trust balances, trust reconciliation, receivables aging and work in progress. Billing summary, productivity, matter profitability, timekeeper rates and collections sit beside them.
Opening balance, bills, payments and trust activity for any period, with the closing balance, saved as a PDF from the Mac or iPhone app.
Probate and trust administration carry their own facts: a decedent, a court, a case number, a fiduciary and the people who inherit. Tier 4 Legal keeps them on the matter and reconciles the money around them.
| Decedent | Margaret Okafor |
|---|---|
| Probate court | Los Angeles Superior Court |
| Case number | 26STPB01234 |
| Fiduciary | James Okafor, Executor |
| Beneficiaries | 3 named |
Decedent, date of death, probate court, case number, fiduciary and role, and beneficiaries, on the matter and in the detail view.
Time, costs, bills, payments, trust and retainer movements read from one ledger export and placed where they belong.
Rates by client, matter and timekeeper, resolved on every entry and shown in plain words.
Your codes, kept as managed lists with default rates and a picker on every time entry.
Opening balance, bills, payments, trust lines and the closing balance for any period, as a PDF.
Running balances, overdraw refused, a tie-out and three way reconciliation of ledger, client balances and the adjusted bank balance.
Court dates and deadlines kept with the matter, imported from your calendar export and flagged when overdue.
Bills continue after the highest number you already use, with your own prefix, gapless.
Coming from Timeslips or Tussman? Each has its own page: what to bring, what moves, and what is left out, by name.
Every competitor cell carries a dated source. A feature the vendor pages do not mention is left blank and says so.
| Feature | Tussman | Timeslips | Clio | Tier 4 Legal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs on | Windows desktop; hosted copy reachable from a Windows or Apple desktop1 | Desktop (Premium), web and mobile (Go), cloud (Anywhere)5 | Nothing to install, used from anywhere; mobile app for iOS and Android6 | Mac and iPhone apps. Move-in and client portal in any browser |
| Use it away from the office | Hosted option, priced on request2 | Yes, with Timeslips Anywhere or Timeslips Go5 | Yes46 | Yes |
| Client portal | not stated on the pages we read | not stated on the pages we read | Yes, message, pay and track the matter6 | Yes |
| Trust accounting | Retainer and trust transactions, trust check register1 | Client funds (Anywhere)5 | Yes, trust and operating accounts reconciled6 | Yes, with three way reconciliation |
| Card payments | not stated on the pages we read | Through payment integrations (AffiniPay, Nuvei)5 | Online: card, eCheck, Apple Pay, Google Pay6 | Online, through Stripe |
| Phone app | not stated on the pages we read | Companion app3 | Yes4 | iPhone app on TestFlight, Mac app on TestFlight |
Every vendor cell carries a dated source: a vendor page read in a browser and captured, or the Apple App Store listing. Blank cells say “not stated on the pages we read”: the pages named below do not mention that feature.1. tussman.com, Products page: designed to operate on any computer running Windows XP or higher; with the cloud hosting option the program is reached from any Windows or Apple desktop or laptop; records retainer and trust transactions; check registers for both office and trust accounts. Read September 3, 5 and 6, 2026.2. tussman.com, Cloud Hosting and Order pages: a hosted copy on a cloud server; ordering and pricing by phone. Read September 3, 5 and 6, 2026.3. Apple App Store, Sage Timeslips Go by Sage Software International, a companion to Sage Timeslips Premium. Read September 3, 2026.4. Apple App Store, Clio for Law Firms and Lawyers by Themis Solutions Inc. Read September 3 and 5, 2026.5. sage.com, Sage Timeslips product, Timeslips Anywhere and pricing pages: desktop (Premium), web and mobile access with Go, fully cloud based Anywhere with client funds among its features; payments through AffiniPay or Nuvei integrations. Read September 6, 2026 in a browser; the same pages refused a non-browser reader on September 3 and 5.6. clio.com, pricing page: nothing to install, used from anywhere; mobile app for iOS and Android; clients pay online with card, eCheck, Apple Pay or Google Pay; trust and operating accounts reconciled; a client portal to message, pay and track the matter. Read September 6, 2026 in a browser; the Clio feature pages presented a bot challenge and were not read.Tier 4 Legal cells describe the product as shipped on September 6, 2026.
Each plan is sized by the number of attorneys it covers. Ask for a quote and we walk your own data through the product before you decide.
Plans are sized by attorney count and quoted on request.
The trust ledger tracks every dollar per client with a running balance. A disbursement that would overdraw a client balance is refused before it is written. Three way reconciliation of the ledger, the client balances and the adjusted bank balance is in the product, with the tie-out kept for the auditor.
Data is encrypted in transit with TLS 1.3 and stored in managed PostgreSQL with daily backups. We never share or sell firm data.
Yes. The client portal takes card payments through Stripe. Send a portal link and the client reads the bill and pays it; the payment reconciles against the bill automatically.
It moves in. The exports from your old program are read, previewed and written only when you say so, and every row that cannot be placed is named by file and row before you finish. The whole move-in can be undone from inside the app as long as nothing new has been built on top of it.
Bring your exports. We walk the preview with you and read every left-out row together.