Efficient timekeeping is an attorney’s paradise. Firms require that partners and associates hit their minimums to stick around or stay eligible for the bonus pool. That’s hard because while minimums start at 1,700 hours, they go up to 2,300 hours a year. Even the Yale Law School points out how difficult hitting the minimum can be: only 75% of your time working ends up being billable hours, because the rest is consumed by administrative tasks.