Kamykowski & Taylor case study: run, don't walk
Mandy Kamykowski, managing partner of Kamykowski & Taylor, a medical malpractice defense firm in Clayton, Missouri, used to lose the last Saturday morning of every month to her timesheet. Her description of the firm's two camps: "Our group is either very close to Michael, very good at entering time in every day. Or much more like me, where I spend my last Saturday morning of the month going back and recreating my time."
At more than 2,000 individual time entries a month across the firm, recreating time from memory was not a small problem.
Day one
Kamykowski works across three screens with everything open at once, which is exactly the working style manual timekeeping punishes. Her reaction on the first day of the pilot: "You should see all the things that Ajax has already started working on."
Ajax reads the actual work on screen, the defense filings, the expert correspondence, the carrier reporting, and drafts matter-matched entries in each person's own style. The person reviews and releases; nothing else about how they work changes.
A few weeks in, the review rhythm looked like this, in her words: "So this morning, I clicked on what hadn't been released in April and I had 88 entries and I was like, oh, it took me like 12 minutes to get through them." Nearly all of them arrived with the right codes already attached.
And the Saturday problem? "It's going to prevent me from spending the last weekend of every month doing all my time."
The return, in her words
On the administrative side: "It certainly is saving me at least 10 to 15 hours a month of administrative time, which is huge."
On revenue: "As far as the return on investment, I think the first month that we did the pilot, the report that we got from Ajax was in the five figures... of additional revenue that was put onto a bill above and beyond what we had been putting onto bills." Extrapolated over a year, she puts the recovered revenue in the six figures. "I guarantee it."
Her advice to other firms came out unprompted, and it is the line we remember: "I would say run, don't walk and sign up for it." She was blunter still about the timing: "I'm actually frustrated with myself that I wasn't aware enough of the product to ask for it sooner."
Why defense practices see this
Medical malpractice defense combines high matter volume, carrier billing standards, and long document review sessions broken up by constant correspondence. Those fragmented touches are precisely what memory-based timekeeping drops. Capture that sees the work itself, rather than asking the lawyer to remember it, recovers the difference, and drafts entries specific enough to survive carrier review.
Frequently asked questions
What results did the firm see first? Five figures of additional billed revenue in the first month of the pilot, per the firm's own reporting, plus 10 to 15 hours a month of administrative time back for the managing partner.
Does Ajax handle task codes for defense work? Yes. Ajax supports UTBMS, LEDES, and custom task codes configured per client, and Kamykowski's April batch arrived with codes already assigned on all but two new-matter entries.
How much review time should a busy partner expect? Kamykowski cleared 88 entries in about 12 minutes. Review is a read-and-release pass, not data entry.
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