Whether your legal department receives invoices from law firms in hard copy or “soft copy” (e-billing formats or PDFs), you are probably not extracting as much insight from them as you could. My recent article on how to analyze law firm bills covers a number of techniques that will deepen what you can glean from invoices.Download rees_morrison_analyzing_invoices_from_law_firms.pdf
The more e-billing systems there are in action (See my posts of July 27, 2007 on DataCert; and Nov. 4, 2007about their penetration into large law firms in the United States.), the more precise and meaningful these kinds of analytic efforts will become.