Outside Counsel Invoice Review video
Every line of every law firm invoice checked against the guidelines, the rate card and the matter budget at once, with a margin note citing the rule beside each line that breaks one. 1:18
What the film shows
Checks every law firm invoice line against billing guidelines and budget, for in-house legal
Agents read every line of the firm's file and PDF, check each against the guidelines, the rate card, the staffing plan and the budget at once, and leave a margin note with the source passage and the reduction worked out. Counsel accepts, edits or rejects each note with a reason and approves the invoice; a second approval applies above the limit. The agents draft the note to the firm in its own terms.
Transcript
- Outside Counsel Invoice Review checks every law firm invoice line against billing guidelines and budget, for in-house legal.
- Half of legal teams think they're overbilled; most spend under four hours a month on invoices.
- Brandstetter Vail's October invoice: four hundred twelve lines, every one read.
- Every line meets three sources at once: guidelines, rate card and budget.
- A first-year associate billed at the senior rate gets a note citing the card.
- Block billing, unapproved timekeepers and a discovery overrun each get their clause.
- Jonas accepts twenty-three of twenty-six notes and keeps three as billed, with reasons.
- The note to the firm explains every cut in its own words.
- Approved at one hundred fifty-two thousand and ninety dollars; Halvard keeps nineteen thousand four hundred ten.
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The narration as written for the film. Captions are on the player.