Today's legal departments take advantage of its sophisticated sourcing, fee tracking, matter management,
eBilling as well as analytics & reporting features.
Think of
eBills as electronic versions of your paper bills.
Not exact matches
Many companies offer electronic bill presentment, or
eBills, which are sent to you electronically (but of course) by your service provider or biller of services, directly or through your bank
as part of their online bill pay service.
To make this easier, certain providers follow standards such
as iCal for calendar entries, vcard for contact files and Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard (LEDES) for
ebilling.
«Podworks» is the gateway to legal systems such
as matter management,
eBilling and contract building, while «mentorpod», which has just launched in pilot, is a technology - enabled programme matching mentors and mentees into long - term, short - term and project - based relationships across the organisation.
Likewise,
eBilling vendors will need to implement the new J - Codes,
as the law firms will need to record them, and this will enable an easier comparison of client bills to the eventual Bill - of - Costs presented to the courts at the culmination of the case.
Our top two suggested reports to help you keep track of your firm's
ebilling progress throughout the month are
as follows.
This again is a departure from the norm for the use UTBMS codes,
as normally they are used in
eBills supplied by the law firm to the client.
We selected Datacert for its unique ability to truly support global
ebilling, its comprehensive portfolio of best practices, critical capabilities such
as behind - the - firewall deployment, and its extensive training program offered by the Datacert Learning Institute.»
For sure, I was told, they will require
eBilling and pre-matter scoping
as well
as project management.
First formed in 1995
as an informal group tasked with creating a framework for the exchange of billing information, the LOC now offers several different formats for legal
ebilling,
as well
as schemas for budgeting, timekeeper, rate management and IP matter management data exchange, all of which are available on this site.
The LEDES
ebilling standards are globally recognized and accepted
as industry - specific EDI standards for the exchange of legal
ebilling information.
Sessions such
as «The Frugal Law Firm — Tech Essentials on a Budget» and «Tech Applied to Dull Ordinary Things that MUST Get Done» and «ePayments and
eBilling» indicate that this conference is well - grounded in how lawyers must use technology to simply get work done and get paid for it once it is done.