Litson case study: criminal defense finds its tenths
Midway through a check-in call with our team, Alex Little of Litson PLLC paused and mentioned what he had just finished doing while everyone talked: "I just did all the time entries for Monday for 15.4 hours."
A full day of time, fifteen-plus hours of it, reviewed and released during a conversation. That is the whole pitch for how Ajax changes the review workload, delivered accidentally.
The firm
Litson is a Tennessee criminal defense firm. Defense work generates exactly the time pattern that manual tracking loses: client calls at odd hours, quick filings, correspondence threaded between hearings, and research detours that never feel long enough to log. Little's team had felt the drag for years. His reaction when he first saw Ajax: "It looked great. Exactly what I wish somebody had made. And I'm glad that it has been made. So we're super excited. I've actually already told half our team about, hey, we're doing this."
Part of what sold the firm was what Ajax does not ask of anyone. In Little's words: "The reason we were so excited about Ajax in part is you don't have to stop and write down your time... don't have to stop and press start on the timer."
What the attorneys measured
John R. Glover tracked his own delta: "I've noticed it's really capturing a lot of my 0.2s and 0.3s that I would otherwise just kind of forget or neglect during the day, which over the course of my day do add up to be anything from a 0.7 to a 1.2 somewhere in there that I'm just kind of missing during the day."
And after four days: "I've just noticed the past four days I've probably captured between 1 and 1.5 more than I otherwise would have."
An extra hour to hour and a half of billable time per day, per attorney, from work that was already happening.
The rest of the team
Fer Guillén: "I mean, I do like it because it saves a lot of time."
Ally Foresman: "The less I have to admin, the more I can actually build and work and do the parts of what we do today."
Sloan Nickel, looking backward: "I think we've all been saying the same thing, which is like, oh God, how much time were we losing for this?"
And Ridwan Ahmed, whose complaint file came up empty: "But really, like, at this point, I'm just grasping for straws or something to complain about."
Frequently asked questions
Does AI timekeeping work for criminal defense? Yes. Defense practices bill in frequent small increments across many matters, and Litson's attorneys measured 1 to 1.5 extra captured hours per day. The fragmented pattern that breaks manual tracking is the pattern Ajax is built for.
How long does daily review actually take? Alex Little reviewed and released an entire 15.4-hour day during a phone call. Entries arrive drafted and matter-matched; review is reading, not writing.
What about confidentiality in a defense practice? Draft entries are private to each user, captured data is deleted automatically on a rolling basis, and nothing is used to train AI models. The details are in our answer on whether AI timekeeping is safe for law firms.
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