ROI CALCULATOR

You're already paying for this. You just don't see it.

Most firms don't track how much time is spent moving work between people. This calculator shows the billable capacity your team is losing to coordination every month.

Your Firm Profile

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Your Firm's Recovered Capacity

$7,350

Monthly Recovered Capacity

98h

Hours Reclaimed

What This Means for Your Firm

This is the capacity your firm is currently not capturing

$88,200

per year. You're already paying for this capacity in salaries. You're just not billing it.

0.6

Full-Time Equivalent employees worth of reclaimed capacity — without hiring.

Get a custom efficiency audit based on your practice area.

How we calculate this.

Conservative assumptions. Most firms find the real numbers are higher.

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Automation Savings

Matters × 8 automations × 3 minutes each. Conservative estimate — most firms spend longer per task.

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Administrative Recovery

15 minutes per person per day recovered from status checking. That's 5+ hours per person per month.

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Billable Capacity

Recovered hours × hourly rate = capacity your firm could be billing. This isn't cost reduction — it's revenue recovery.

BEFORE YOU HIRE

Before you add headcount, look at the capacity you already have.

Hiring adds cost. Legalboards unlocks capacity your team already has — without salary, benefits, or training overhead.

Hiring a Paralegal

Avg. Salary$52,000/yr
Benefits & Overhead$15,600/yr
Training Period3–6 months
Office Space$6,000/yr
Total Cost$73,600/yr

Legalboards Automation

Capacity Recovered0.6 FTE
Setup TimeUnder 10 min
Training RequiredNone
Infrastructure$0 additional
ROIPositive in 30 days

What changes when you stop losing those hours.

This isn't about saving money. It's about using the capacity you're already paying for.

Take more cases without hiring

Recovered hours mean your existing team has bandwidth to grow the practice — without adding headcount.

Reduce overload on key staff

When workflows are visible and handoffs are automatic, the pressure stops concentrating on your best people.

Stabilize workload across the team

Capacity becomes visible. You redistribute before someone burns out or a deadline gets missed.

If you're making a decision based on this, these are the questions that matter.

Yes. Our formula uses conservative estimates: 8 automations per matter at 3 minutes each, plus 15 minutes of daily admin recovery per person. Most firms find the actual savings are higher.

Most firms see measurable improvements within the first 30 days. Automation savings kick in immediately. Administrative recovery builds as your team adopts visible workflows.

Download your results as a PDF and share them. Or book a demo — we'll walk through the numbers with your leadership team and show how they apply to your specific practice areas.

The calculator uses averages across law firms. Immigration, family law, and personal injury firms often see higher savings due to higher matter volumes. Book a custom audit for practice-specific numbers.

CMS automations typically handle document generation and calendar entries. Legalboards automates the coordination layer — handoffs, status tracking, and stage transitions — which is where most unbillable time is lost.