Legora and PointOne partner to log AI work as billable time automatically

Legora and PointOne will connect their platforms so that work lawyers do inside Legora is recorded as time entries in PointOne automatically. Each entry will carry the client, the matter number and a description of the task, tied to the lawyer who did the work and billed at that lawyer's rate.

Law firms want proof that legal AI pays

The deal answers a question that now follows legal AI into every law firm: what is it actually worth? Firms that license Legora want to know whether first drafts come together faster, whether write-offs fall, and how much billed time now runs through the tool. None of that can be measured without clean time data.

Legora says it serves more than 140,000 legal professionals at over 2,000 law firms and in-house teams across more than 80 markets, and it is currently promoting a $550 million Series E. PointOne, an AI time entry platform, reports more than 250 law firm customers on four continents, including Am Law 50 firms. Legora has announced several firmwide deployments in recent weeks, which raises the stakes on showing value at scale.

A three-stage integration, starting with time entry

The first stage generates time entries from activity in Legora, with descriptions such as drafting a memorandum in support of a motion to dismiss. Because each entry maps to the timekeeper, the correct billable rate applies without manual input.

The second stage is a value dashboard that Legora will build, powered by PointOne time data for mutual customers. The third adds usage analytics in Legora showing how lawyers spend their time in the product. The integration will only be available to firms that license both products and authorize its use. Interested firms can register through either company's account team now. No release date has been given.

Timekeeping is becoming the measurement layer for legal AI

Time capture is turning into strategic territory. PointOne, Laurel and other vendors now pitch automated timekeeping as the data that proves what AI delivers, not only as a fix for revenue leakage. For an AI platform like Legora, a time data partner offers a before-and-after comparison that self-reported usage figures cannot. Competing platforms will face buyer pressure to show similar evidence. The tie-up also shows that the billable hour still governs how firms judge technology, even as AI shortens the work being billed.