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With budgets a little tighter than usual these days, understanding how your law firms approach pricing can shape your conversations to uncover areas for cost savings. Watch the webinar....

Have you ever heard the words “LEDES file” mentioned, and think to yourself – ‘what is that?’ Don’t worry, you’re not the only one! In this post, we’re sharing what a ...

If you work with a lot of outside counsel, the type of legal billing software you choose will have a sizable impact on the overall efficiency of your billing process. Choosing software that strea...

Uniform Task-Based Management System (UTBMS) codes make detailed spend reporting possible by ensuring that each task and expense is categorized. That way, when you notice in Q1 that spending is o...

Legal Ops professionals from Veritas and Snowflake discuss best practices for billing guidelines, getting buy-in from peers and outside counsel as well solutions to common issues....

Creating billing guidelines is often one of the first steps a legal department takes when trying to get a hold of out-of-control legal spend. But how can a legal department ensure that their guid...

Receiving and reviewing invoices is a mundane and tedious task nearly every legal department faces each day. It can be frustrating when an invoice approval is stalled and you have no idea why, or...

Legal ops leaders share how their teams approached and tackled accruals management during an informative panel at ACC (Association of Corporate Counsel) Legal Ops conference in 2018....

Having worked with other legacy systems for e-Billing and matter management, the legal team at Instacart knew they needed a more modern solution to replace their highly manual invoicing process. ...

Nobody likes sifting through old emails and call notes, or chasing law firms for budget information. And, most would agree that manually tracking budgets and requests for them using a spreadsheet...

Learn how Instacart was able to save 10% in legal spend with the SimpleLegal Legal Operations platform....

Learn how ATTIC saw an immediate reduction in spend as well as time spent reviewing invoices after implementing SimpleLegal....

Watch this session, presented at CLOC 2018, to learn about the benefits of connecting your legal ops technologies and the different types of integrations....

New to accruals or looking for a better way to manage them? This guide shares best practices for collecting unbilled estimates, the 4 types of accruals, who should be involved, and much more!...

Stop chasing your law firms for monthly estimates! Download our template which provides a framework to train your outside counsel on properly calculating and submitting accruals....

Over the years, the use of alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) by corporate legal departments has grown due to a number of factors such as falling realization rates, more competition, and the exp...

Developing billing guidelines is an important step towards ensuring your department is fiscally responsible and that unique business processes are being followed both internally and externally. Y...

Last week, Chicago hosted hundreds of legal operations professionals at the Association of Corporate Counsel?(ACC) Legal Operations Conference. Here at SimpleLegal, we love legal operations, so ...

Having a legal e-Billing and matter management system to track and analyze invoices from outside counsel is no longer a luxury, but a necessity for legal departments of all sizes. The challenge f...

Legal billing guidelines, also known as outside counsel billing guidelines, are a great way for legal departments to communicate their expectations of their law firms and vendors. However, withou...

A couple weeks ago, we published the first post in this series which focused on the intangible benefits of alternative fee arrangements (AFAs). Today’s post will highlight the process for deter...

e-Billing is quickly becoming the technology of choice for legal departments – and for good reason. The solution acts as a system of record, enabling a legal team to efficiently manage the cont...

It’s been roughly ten years since best-selling author, Scott Turow, penned the cover story for the American Bar Association journal titled, ‘The Billable Hour Must Die.’ During this time Tu...

Many e-Billing and legal spend management solutions are implemented to eliminate manual efforts and drive process efficiencies so in-house attorneys can focus on what matters most –?practicing...

Many in-house legal teams are familiar with accruals, also known as unbilled estimates or the amounts that law firms estimate for work in progress. Unfortunately, unbilled estimates are difficult...

In a Altman Weil survey of large and midsize law firms, 95% said they use Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs). Two-thirds of these firms report their use of AFAs is primarily reactive in response...

In part I of our accruals management series, we summarized why accruals are important, and how legal operations departments tend to be more equipped to own the accruals process than finance depar...

Last month, hundreds of legal operations professionals gathered at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, taking part in the 2nd annual CLOC Institute, the largest legal operations event in history. The orga...