The following legal bill review programs are qualified outside firms who provide quantitative analysis of
legal billing entries.
A panel of qualified legal bill auditors discuss their approach to analyzing legal
billing entries in a variety of contexts.
Attorneys can review invoices in Onit and see alerts for
duplicate billing entries or other filters set up to alert to potential issues.
We would note that this decision likely has repercussions in fee substantiation provided in fee motions or in trials with respect to litigants preferring to make redactions for purposes of protecting
privileged billing entries.
The Court of Appeal decided that fee totals information in concluded litigation matters might be fair game for production, but concluded that
individual billing entries would tend to disclose privileged matters and that fee totals in pending matters would invade the privilege.
While most attorneys enter a single sentence for a
time billing entry, Hunt uses Bill4Time to enter paragraphs of detailed work descriptions.
Centerbase allows you to do things like write down invoices and
moving billing entries if they were originally attached to the wrong matter.
If you use Alt Legal's copyright, trademark, or patent intake tools, it will automatically create matters and
billing entries in Clio.
Incorporate that information into
your billing entry.
Thus, it's important to make sure that
your billing entries adequately demonstrate the application of your skill and intellectual labor.
Similarly, if you have a call with an expert or outside counsel, incorporate the content of the conversation into
the billing entry.
As the user creates a document, Rocket Matter can also automatically create
a billing entry.
To pull out
all billing entries for a particular client.
Invoicing,
bill entry, payment entry.
We recently laid out the benefits of using QuickBooks Online for
bill entry and payment.