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Billable Hours Agenda 2028
A dated agenda built around a weekly timesheet: start, stop, client, matter, and whether the entry has been invoiced.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 100
- Leaves
- 50
- Sheets
- 25
- Signatures
- 5 × 20pp
- Spine
- 5.72 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 9.17 mm · 26.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 18
- Year
- 2028
Billable time goes missing in the gaps between appointments. Fifteen minutes on the phone before a hearing, an email answered from a taxi, a call that ran long because the other side would not settle: none of it sits in a calendar, and by the time you are back at your desk it has already become a guess. A guess is not what goes on an invoice.
Every week gets one ruled page, split into five fields: start, stop, client, matter, and whether the entry has been sent to billing. The same five fields, week after week, so a file reopened months later reads the way it did the day you wrote it. Behind the weekly run, lined notes pages catch whatever a five-field row will not hold: a conflict check, a retainer renegotiated mid matter, an instruction that changed twice in one phone call.
It sets no rate and no rounding convention. What you charge for the hour, and whether you bill in six-minute units or round to the quarter, are decisions your firm makes, and they differ by firm and by jurisdiction. A printed book cannot be corrected once the year is underway, so it leaves both to you.
What is inside
- Month
- 12pp
- A month spread for court dates and appointments set outside the weekly timesheet.
- Notes
- 24pp
- Lined pages for whatever a five-field row will not hold.
- Timesheet
- 52pp
- One ruled page per week: start, stop, client, matter, invoiced or not.
- Year
- 1pp
- A single page for the year ahead, before the weeks begin.
- Reference
- 11pp
- Owner details, conversion tables worked from definitions, and emergency numbers checked against two independent sources.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Billable Hours Agenda 2027Works alongsideshares calculation, lawyer, scheduling
- Court Diary 2027Works alongsideshares lawyer, scheduling
- Court Diary 2028Works alongsideshares lawyer, scheduling
- Duty Roster Diary 2027Works alongsideshares scheduling
- Duty Roster Diary 2028Works alongsideshares scheduling
- Event Countdown AgendaWorks alongsideshares scheduling
- Week on Two Pages 2027Works alongsideshares scheduling
- Week on Two Pages 2028Works alongsideshares scheduling
Questions
What are the five timesheet fields?
Start, stop, client, matter, and whether the entry has been invoiced.
Does it set a billing rate?
No. Your rate and your rounding convention are decisions your firm makes, and they differ by firm and by jurisdiction.
What are the notes pages for?
Whatever the weekly row will not hold: a conflict check, a retainer renegotiated mid matter, an instruction that changed twice in one call.
Is it dated?
Yes, one ruled week runs through 2028, month by month.
Who is it for?
Anyone who bills time by the hour and needs the week to read the same way every week: solicitors, advocates, and firms that account for the day in units rather than appointments.
Do instantly whatever is to be done, and take the hours of recreation after business, never before it.
