The Attorney can claim time for preparing budgets but cannot claim time for entering his time/expenses into eVoucher. The general rule is that only “attorney services” are compensable (although there are exceptions not involved here).

Budgeting is considered an attorney service because it requires legal knowledge of what services will be required in the case.

On the other hand, entering time/expenses is just data entry and can be done by non-attorney personnel and often is. Under the Guide provision below, non-attorney “personnel” services are not compensable, no matter who does them. So even if counsel has to do his own billing in eVoucher, he can’t bill for it.