Files
Records scatter
A single probate matter spans the will, inventory, court filings, correspondence, and task lists. When those live across folders, drives, and inboxes, no one can say with confidence what the file actually contains.
Project — Live
EstateClock
Track. Manage. Settle. Confidently. EstateClock is probate and estate matter management software that keeps every file, statutory deadline, court hearing, and task in one place for the law firms that handle estate work.
- Legal Software
- Probate
- Estate Management
- Live
The Problem
Probate work runs on deadlines a spreadsheet won’t catch
Estate and probate practice is unforgiving about dates and detail. Files scatter across folders and inboxes, statutory deadlines pass unflagged, and conflict checks depend on someone remembering to run them. The structure gap is where matters quietly go wrong.
Deadlines
Statutory dates slip
Probate is governed by statutory deadlines and court hearings. A missed date is not a missed reminder — it can carry real consequence for the estate and the firm. Memory is not a system.
Conflicts
Checks get skipped
Conflict checks across clients and related parties are only effective when they are fast and routine. When they are slow and manual, they get deferred — and a deferred conflict check is a risk the firm is carrying unknowingly.
What It Does
One place to track, manage, and settle every matter
EstateClock is built for the firms that handle estate planning, probate, and real-estate transfer work in Wisconsin and Minnesota — attorneys, paralegals, assistants, and interns — with software support for every stage of a matter.
State-specific workflows
Wisconsin and Minnesota workflows auto-seed the correct tasks and statutory deadlines at intake, so a new matter starts with the right roadmap instead of a blank file.
Deadline & hearing timeline
An integrated timeline tracks every statutory deadline and court hearing, with calendar feeds that put the dates that matter where the team already works.
Fast conflict checking
Conflict checks run quickly across all clients and related parties, surfacing a potential conflict before it becomes a problem rather than after.
Role-based access
Access controls fit the firm: attorneys, paralegals, assistants, and interns each see what their role requires and nothing it does not.
NetDocuments integration
EstateClock connects to NetDocuments, so document management stays in the system firms already trust instead of fragmenting across tools.
Audit trails & settlement reports
Complete audit trails record who did what and when, and downloadable settlement reports give a clean account of how a matter was closed out.
The through-line is confidence. EstateClock treats a probate matter as a managed file with a known timeline, a clear roster of related parties, and a complete record of every action taken — so the firm always knows what is due, what is done, and what the file will show if anyone ever asks.
Security
Built to be trusted with sensitive matters
Estate files hold deeply personal and financial information. EstateClock is built around the safeguards a law firm should expect before it puts a client matter into any system.
Encryption
AES-256 encryption
Matter data is protected with AES-256 encryption, the standard firms expect for sensitive client and estate information.
Integrity
Append-only audit logs
Audit logs are append-only: every action is recorded and nothing is silently overwritten, so the history of a matter stays intact and verifiable.
Access
Role-based controls
Role-based access ensures attorneys, paralegals, assistants, and interns reach exactly the matters and functions their role calls for — no more, no less.
Status
Live, and built by a practitioner
EstateClock is live at estateclock.com. It is William Horschak’s legal-software venture, built where his legal path and his civic-tech work meet.
William Horschak is the founder and builder of EstateClock. The product grew out of his work in the legal field and his broader practice of building systems that turn careful procedure into usable software — the same instinct behind his open-records and civic-technology work.
EstateClock bridges those two paths directly: a legal-software venture shaped by an understanding of how probate and estate matters actually move through a firm, and by a builder’s discipline about deadlines, documentation, and trust.
See it live at estateclock.com (opens in a new tab).
Professional inquiries
William is available for professional inquiries related to hospitality revenue strategy, open-records research, civic-transparency tools, web ventures, and business-development concepts.