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Stop overpaying on law firm billing rates. Cut legal costs with these 5 tips from industry leaders....

Use these 3 best practices to build a case for your legal budget and demonstrate your value to the C-suite with your spend management skills....

Legal spend management is tracking, analyzing, and optimizing costs for in-house legal departments. Here’s how to create an effective system....

Law firm benchmarking brings valuable context to data points about your vendors, helping you optimize your legal spending....

To get approval for a new legal spend management solution, you need to pitch the concrete value legal tech brings to the company as a whole. ...

Looking to reduce legal spend, drive conformity and consistency in billing practices, and enforce billing requirements? Sounds like you need invoice validation in your e-billing. ...

Reporting on your legal spend management doesn’t have to be complicated. Find out how to handle the process quickly and efficiently....

Only 48% of law firms respond to requests for month end accruals. Here's 4 key ways to increase that number, giving you more control over your legal budget....

The pressing question for in-house legal is not whether alternative fee arrangements will be used but rather how to ensure the best ROI from AFAs....

As firms continue to increase rates, alternative legal service providers have become great options to reduce legal spend without reducing quality. ...

Legal spend tech helps legal ops easily find ways to save, which is especially important because most GCs are focused on reducing legal costs through 2024....

Legal cost control is still a top priority for legal ops, and the spend management lessons learned in COVID-19 will help teams further optimize legal spend....

A legal spend management system is the key to effectively tracking spend and spending smarter. Get a strong return on investment with this tool!...

Legal e-Billing solutions are currently the most adopted legal technology by law departments. So, why is that, and what makes a good legal e-Billing solution? ...

Private equity firms spend $353k on average on each merger and acquisition. Here are the areas that contribute to high M&A legal fees and how to keep costs low....

What are UTBMS Codes? Here’s everything you need to know to understand and use UTBMS and ABA task codes in 2021. ...

LEDES file format facilitates electronic data transmission in legal, streamlining e-Billing by displaying invoice data in a specific order and format. Here's everything you need to know in 2021....

Legal spend analysis helps you discover ways to improve your legal department through spend reporting. Here’s what it is and how to conduct an analysis....

Whether you realize it or not, maverick spend could be eating up your legal budget. Learn what it is, how to identify it, and how to eliminate it....

Legal spend management processes can be tedious, repetitive and riddled with human error. Here is how a spend management solution can solve all of those problems....

Not sure if spend management software is worth the investment? If any of these situations sound familiar, spend management would save you money in the long run....

Want to save your legal department hundreds of thousands each month? Learn how to track and manage different types of accruals....

The SimpleLegal team shares what the announcement of AI-enabled invoice means for the legal ops platform as well as current and future customers....

Alternative fee arrangements allow legal ops teams and law firms alike to shift the focus to value-based work instead of worrying about hours and minutes....

The after effects of an uncertain year are bound to roll into 2021. Now’s the time to think proactively about legal department budgets for the coming year. ...

At the end of a long week, you sit down to find a great movie to watch. It takes a solid five minutes for Netflix to boot up. Then, you can’t preview any movies within the application, so you s...

Picture this: An attorney spends five hours on a flight to take an out-of-town deposition for Client A. During that time, the attorney works on IP management research to use for projects for both...

Legal billing guidelines are a binding agreement between a legal department and a law firm, ensuring payment in exchange for legal work. The guidelines establish rules for legal invoicing formats...

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....

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...

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...

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 ...

Learn how KidKraft adopted SimpleLegal and immediately gained visibility into legal spend for countless benefits including enhanced budgeting and reporting....

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...

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...