Offices

Offices let a firm with more than one physical location group its fee earners by location, so you can report on performance and workload per location instead of only per individual timekeeper.

Note: The Offices tab only appears in the Users menu when the office feature is enabled for your firm. Contact Legalsense support to enable it.

Why Legalsense uses offices

When you enable offices, you can define your firm's locations and assign each user to one. Legalsense then makes the office available throughout reporting: as a filter on the matter list (matters supervised by fee earners of that office), as a column and grouping in custom reports, in the office performance report, and in the user export.

Important: Offices do not create separate invoice number series, letterheads, or bank accounts per location. They are a reporting grouping only, not a billing or branding structure. Offices also differ from configuring multiple firms in Legalsense, which serves law firms with multiple legal entities sharing one Legalsense installation.

Offices are one of three parallel ways to group users for reporting, alongside practice groups and leverage teams. All three appear together in the Users menu.

Where to find it

Go to Users → Offices.

Overview of existing offices

The Offices page lists all offices configured for your firm. Each row shows an edit icon and a delete icon so you can update or remove the office.

Page showing the overview of the offices page.

A user belongs to at most one office at a time. Each assignment has a start date and, optionally, an end date, so a user can move between offices over time while Legalsense keeps a clean history of past assignments.

Entering a new office

1. Go to Users → Offices.
2. Click New office.
3. Fill in the name and the users that belong to this office.
4. Click Save.