Built for the compliance standards legal firms require

Tracking paralegal timesheets and chasing onboarding paperwork drains billable hours. Employment Hero automates your onboarding, time-tracking and payroll, keeping your practice compliant and focused on clients.

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What’s making it difficult to stay on top of your workforce?

PAIN POINT 1

Administrative paperwork stealing billable time

Onboarding graduate lawyers, tracking paralegal timesheets and updating employee files shouldn’t consume hours of a practice manager’s week. When contracts, IR330 tax forms and bank details are handled via scattered emails or paper forms, it delays start dates, creates data bottlenecks and pulls focus away from supporting your clients.

✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO

Employment Hero pushes paperless onboarding checklists and self-service files straight to your staff’s phones. New hires submit their own tax, bank and personal details before day one, eliminating manual data entry.

PAIN POINT 2

Managing employment agreements and variable hours

Legal practices manage a highly varied workforce, from casual clerks and hourly paralegals to salaried solicitors working long billable hours. Manually calculating overtime rules, salary tracking and variable hours across spreadsheets creates a heavy administrative burden and increases the risk of payroll errors or non-compliance under the Holidays Act 2003.

✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO

Employment Hero automatically applies the correct employment agreement rules based on each staff member’s profile. Approved digital timesheets flow directly into payroll, ensuring precise overtime and statutory leave calculations without manual effort.

PAIN POINT 3

Chasing practising certificates and compliance documents

For a legal firm, there is zero margin for error with compliance. Manually tracking current practising certificates, professional indemnity insurance renewals and mandatory policy sign-offs leaves the firm exposed. If a critical credential lapses or a record is misplaced, it creates immediate reputational and legal liability.

✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO

Employment Hero logs mandatory qualifications and policy signatures in an unalterable digital audit trail. The system automatically monitors expiry dates and issues automated alerts to employees for certificate renewals.

Still losing billable hours to manual admin? See how we help

Employment Hero automates your firm’s employment documentation across the entire employee lifecycle. The platform builds a secure digital profile for every team member, automatically capturing and storing signed contracts, policy acknowledgements and variation letters. When an employee changes roles or updates their details, the system logs the change instantly to keep your compliance records current without manual data entry.

Employment Hero coordinates your entire onboarding sequence through a single, automated workflow. The moment an offer is accepted, the system triggers a digital pre-boarding pack for the new hire to complete their IRD tax forms, KiwiSaver enrolment and contract signatures securely online. Simultaneously, the platform assigns internal tasks, like provisioning IT systems or scheduling partner check-ins, to the relevant team members, tracking completion automatically.

Employment Hero replaces the manual back-and-forth of employment variations with unified digital workflows. From salary adjustments to altering agreed hours under individual employment agreements, a single digital update flows directly into your live payroll database. This eliminates the risk of delayed pay adjustments, complex back-pay calculations or disconnected records between your HR and practice management teams.

Employment Hero secures your firm’s sensitive HR data using granular, role-based permission controls. The platform locks down payroll figures, performance reviews and contract variations based on custom access levels. Partners, practice managers and support staff only see the specific files they are explicitly authorised to access, maintaining complete confidentiality and oversight across the practice.