Services and software help manage legal billings; an entire industry is devoted to making sense of mind-numbing bills and spotting irregularities
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Several software products and service-based organizations automate the calculation of legal fees in large cases. Legal Cost Control Inc's services include desk invoice review, law firm auditing, statistical sampling audits and reviews, legal services assessment, and billing guidelines. Legalguard Information Solutions also offers in-house cost control, legal bill audits and a counsel partnership plan. Other firms are Examen Inc, the Litigation Cost Control Resource Center, and Peerpoint Technologies Inc.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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Aspiring giants equip; would-be megafirms are using technology to link far-flung offices and woo bigger clients
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Many law firms of between 150 and 300 lawyers have moved beyond word processing to such technological functions as videoconferencing and Internet usage. Such were the findings of the 1996 National Law Journal Computer Technology Survey. Firms discussed as examples as Winston-Salem, NC's Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice PLLC, Piper and Marbury, Cleveland , OH's Calfee, Halter and Griswold, Pittsburgh, PA's Buchanan Ingersoll, and Jackson and Kelly,
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1996
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