timevolt
Opening soon. Receipts and payments aren't open yet.
Timevolt / Lawyer invoices and trust deposits
legal bills and trust deposit checklist

Keep your copies of the bill and deposit records together.

Legal bills and trust deposit checklist — Keep your copies of the bill and deposit records together. Save the invoice and deposit record exactly as received.

Try a file locally

Your photos and files stay on your device, so keep them.

EXAMPLE
Lawyer invoices and trust deposits
1 Nov 2026
Authority time: 14:02 UTC · example
Bitcoin block time: 14:10 UTC · example
Last checked: 15:02 UTC · example
✓ Dated◆ Permanent
Now keep it safe: three things
  1. Keep your photos and files unedited. The receipt only matches the originals. Put them in an album such as “My records”.
  2. Save this receipt to your camera roll.

    Keep the receipt file too. The image is a handy copy; checking needs the file.

  3. Email it to yourself.Email it to myself

    Your mail app opens a draft. Attach your receipt image and receipt file. Don’t attach your photos or documents. Timevolt does not send it or know whether it was sent.

Your record, one step at a time.

Your photos and files stay on your device, so keep them.

Local preview: files are fingerprinted here. Notes and progress stay in this browser. Keep downloaded copies; browser storage is not a backup.

0 items
How?

Add the exact original files for this part of the record. Keep them unchanged; a different export or edit has a different fingerprint.

Add link and screenshots

The link is recorded, not fetched or verified.

    0 items
    How?

    Record the date, time, place and who you spoke to. New notes are saved separately rather than editing an old note.

    How to keep notes that hold up
    Write it down

    By making a receipt you agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy. The Bitcoin record is permanent.

      By making a receipt you agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy. The Bitcoin record is permanent.

      How to keep notes that hold up

      Write notes as soon as you can. Keep the original account rather than replacing it later; the venue decides what weight it gets.

      1. Write it down straight away, on paper or in the box on a step.
      2. Put the date, time and place at the top, and who you spoke to.
      3. Use their words where you can; separate what you saw from what you were told.
      4. Sign or initial a paper note, photograph it and add the photo.
      5. Never edit an old note. Add a new dated entry when something changes. A device save time is not independent time evidence or proof of event order.
      Lawyer invoices and trust deposits
      Lawyer invoices and trust deposits

      01 · Keep the exact files

      Save the invoice and deposit record exactly as received.

      Records to keep: Each invoice and trust-account statement as it was received

      Lawyer invoices and trust deposits

      02 · Date the file’s code

      Your device fingerprints the selected file or manifest. Dated follows an independent timestamp; Permanent follows Bitcoin anchoring.

      An independent time, tied to the exact bytes.

      Lawyer invoices and trust deposits

      03 · Keep the evidence

      Keep payment acknowledgments and use the relevant fee-dispute process separately.

      Keep the originals too. A changed or compressed copy has a different fingerprint.

      Try a file. It stays here.

      Make a test receipt on this device.

      By making a receipt you agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy. The Bitcoin record is permanent.

      or drop a file here

      Real cases: why the saved copy matters.

      Real cases where dated records mattered. We don’t claim a time receipt would have changed the result.

      US-WV · 2025

      Keep fee terms and send clear bills

      A client asked for a bill and unused fees back after ending a lawyer's work. The bill and an old fee letter came more than four months later. The court imposed a two-year work ban and other penalties.

      Summarized on Oct 29, 2026

      Read the decision ›
      US-MD · 2012

      A refund promise needs the money returned

      A lawyer's bill promised unused fees back, but no cheque came. The lawyer used client funds for business costs and left too little in the holding account. The court barred the lawyer from practice.

      Summarized on Oct 29, 2026

      Read the decision ›
      US-AK · 2021

      Later hourly bills can clash with fixed fees

      A lawyer failed to supply fee deals and bills when asked. A later bill used hourly rates despite a fixed-fee deal. The agreed penalty was a 30-month work ban, with two years and one day to serve.

      Summarized on Oct 29, 2026

      Read the decision ›

      What courts, schemes and regulators say.

      Positions below refer to the cited rule or record type, not endorsement of Timevolt. This service is not represented as an eIDAS qualified timestamp provider. A non-qualified timestamp does not receive the qualified timestamp presumption.

      Accepts · US-federal

      Federal courts, Federal Rules of Evidence

      FRE 902(14), data copied from an electronic device, storage medium or file, authenticated by a process of digital identification

      The 2017 Committee Note says copied electronic data is ordinarily authenticated by hash value. The proponent must give notice and a qualified certification. This helps show a file is unchanged; it does not decide relevance, hearsay or weight. Read through Cornell LII.

      Source summary as of 2026-10-28. Check the current source and applicable local rules.

      Read the source

      Related workflows.

      Quarterly user access review: the reviewer list, decisions and removals frozen as submittedAccess or license request, manager approval and grantQuarterly user access review: the list shown to the reviewer, each keep/remove decision and proof removals happenedHuman-in-the-loop approval before an AI agent executes a high-impact action (refund, payment instruction, production change, customer message)Who was physically present at a members' or condo board meetingHuman-made process record

      Proves / Doesn’t prove

      Proves

      A completed time receipt shows that the exact selected file existed by the independently witnessed time. You can check whether a later copy has the same bytes. It does not establish creation time, authorship, identity, event order, location or the truth of the contents.

      Doesn’t prove

      It does not prove who issued the invoice, that the charges were fair or true, that a deposit was received or applied, or who wins a fee dispute.

      This cannot establish a fair bill, funds received or applied, a genuine issuer or a fee outcome.

      These are the bounds of a completed proof. The local tester does not establish any time. The chosen court, scheme or regulator decides what to accept.

      Questions, answered plainly.

      Your file stays on your device. During normal receipt creation, your device sends a randomized code made from its fingerprint, plus encrypted recovery data. It doesn't send the plain fingerprint or the random value that opens the code. Keep the original file and the complete receipt for checking. Privacy Policy.

      What should I save from my lawyer?

      Save the signed engagement or fee agreement, every invoice as you received it, every retainer or trust-account statement, and proof of each payment you made. Keep the original emails or PDFs and do not edit them. A time receipt then dates the exact files.

      Can a time receipt show my lawyer applied my deposit wrongly?

      A completed time receipt shows that the exact selected file existed by the independently witnessed time. You can check whether a later copy has the same bytes. It does not establish creation time, authorship, identity, event order, location or the truth of the contents.

      What if the firm reissues an invoice later?

      A completed time receipt shows that the exact selected file existed by the independently witnessed time. You can check whether a later copy has the same bytes. It does not establish creation time, authorship, identity, event order, location or the truth of the contents. Keep separate identity, process and entry-history evidence where needed.

      Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.

      Context for this answer
      Will a bar fee arbitration panel accept a time receipt?

      No applicable published acceptance rule is established by the sources cited here. The venue sets its own requirements. Keep your engagement letter, invoices and payment records, and ask the relevant program what it accepts.

      Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.

      Context for this answer
      Do my invoices get uploaded?

      Your file stays on your device. During normal receipt creation, your device sends a randomized code made from its fingerprint, plus encrypted recovery data. It doesn't send the plain fingerprint or the random value that opens the code. Keep the original file and the complete receipt for checking.

      Do federal courts accept hash values for electronic files?

      Federal Rule of Evidence 902(14) lets copied electronic data be authenticated by a process of digital identification, and the 2017 Committee Note says that is ordinarily done by hash value. Admission and weight are still up to the court.

      Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.

      Context for this answer
      How do I ask my lawyer for an itemized bill?

      Ask in writing, by email so there is a dated request, and state the matter and period. Keep a copy of the request, and get a time receipt for whatever comes back.

      Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.

      Context for this answer

      The file tester runs on your device. It does not issue a timestamp or take a payment.

      Keep the records you already have.

      Keep your original files and any existing official records while the receipt service is being prepared.