Re:SimpleLegal (YC S13) Reduces Legal Bills With Machine Lea...
by rayiner on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @05:33PM
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Yes! The alternative is often some very busy partner spending hours of unbillable time every week making sure the bills match the client's required formatting, often because whatever crappy software the client currently uses gets confused when it sees commas instead of semicolons separating entries or whatever.
Re:SimpleLegal (YC S13) Reduces Legal Bills With Machine Lea...
by nwenzel on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @07:49PM
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Billing partners hate reviewing bills. First year associates write some interesting narratives in their time entries.
We are working on the best way to provide this service. Most likely working through a partner. We like the idea of an "Approved by" label. But we want to avoid any conflict of interest.
Partners typically edit bills substantially before sending them out to clients, and I know a partner in my current job spends hours doing this every week for our practice group; I don't think he has much love for the process, so a way of automating it would be amazing, I'm sure.