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Fee earner budgets


We have recently set our budgets for each fee earner for the next 12 months.

Other than the Estimated Annual Cost field in the staff tab of the firm details which won’t work for what we want to do, is there a spot that we can enter each fee earner’s budget, for that to be used in reports for how each fee earner is tracking in meeting that budget?

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  • Smokeball Team
  • 60 replies
  • August 21, 2024

Hi @ARendell,

We are sorry for the delayed response. I can see that my colleague, James, already answered your question over the phone in Zendesk with ticket number 436466.

If you have any other questions or need further assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out.


  • Contributor
  • 1 reply
  • August 24, 2024

Can you post the answer here please?  I would also like to know the answer to this.


  • Regular
  • 39 replies
  • August 26, 2024

@Jess Santos, can you post the answer here as well? Thank you. 


  • Smokeball Team
  • 60 replies
  • August 29, 2024

Hi @Bron & @MFD,

Our Product Team confirmed that this functionality is not yet available and they’re currently doing some research into this for consideration in a future version.


  • Contributor
  • 1 reply
  • October 15, 2024

Is there an update on whether staff budgets is something that will be included in the platform. It seems ludicrous that it isn’t an available function when lawyers work on budgets and this is something that needs to be tracked for performance?


  • Contributor
  • 1 reply
  • March 27, 2025

I would also love to know whether this is an improvement in the works - it’s an essential part of the profitability of any firm I'm rather shocked it’s not already a feature!


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