The LEDES Oversight Committee is hosting our mid-year members' meeting at the ILTA Summer Educational Conference at the Washington Harbor Gaylord National Resort on Tuesday August 23rd at 11:30. For members and interested parties not attending the conference, the meeting will also be broadcast via webinar. Use this link to register to participate via webinar. […]
Author: Jane A. Bennitt
Two subcommittees have provided work product for ratification. The Ebilling Subcommittee has proposed revisions to XML 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2. More on this effort can be found here. The IP Subcommittee has proposed a new UTBMS code set for Patent Prosecution matters. More on this effort can be found here. The public comment period for
Join the LEDES Oversight Committee at the ILTA Annual Educational Conference, scheduled 21 - 25 August, 2022 at the Gaylord National Harbor in National Harbor, Maryland, in Booth 534. Attending on behalf of the LOC will be Jane A. Bennitt, LOC President and Global Legal Ebilling, LLC founder, and Nadia Strobbia, Thomson Reuters powerhouse and
The LEDES Oversight Committee Board of Directors announced today that the LEDES 2000 format is officially retired and will not be part of any future development of this organization. As such, LEDES 2000 will not be included in the LEDES API. Vendors utilizing this format should immediately begin development of the LEDES XML Ebilling formats
In October we wrote about the LEDES API initiative, for which version 2 is expected to be released in the next couple of months. To encourage development of the API, the LEDES Oversight Committee (LOC) will create an API testing platform and make this available to vendors in the legal space. A survey has been posted to
The LEDES Oversight Committee (“LOC”) has a project underway that could solve some significant law firm ebilling problems. Let’s talk about the problems. A law firm’s time and billing software is set up to capture the date an invoice (i.e., a paper bill) was generated. But with ebilling, that is only the first step. The biller must
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In an abundance of caution, the Board decided in early June to hold our mid-year meeting via webinar only. And with the recent uptick of the pandemic, it seems like a wise decision! Our annual meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, at 11:00 Eastern via webinar, which is later in the year than
Subcommittee Chair Cathi Collins has announced that the Phase 2 effort to expand the LEDES Standardized is set to begin. Anyone interested in participating in the effort can contact Cathi via this link.
There is no change this year in the composition of the LOC Board of Directors. President – Jane A. Bennitt, Global Legal Ebilling, LLC Vice President – Cathrine J. Collins, Legal Systems Automation, LLC Treasurer/Membership – Jim Hannigan, Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP Secretary – Nadia Strobbia, Thomson Reuters Standards – Nicholas Puschak, Mitratech
The UTBMS (Uniform Task-Based Management System) codes used in legal ebilling have been created by numerous different bodies, and most were created with consideration of the American legal system. This makes the codes difficult for global users because in some cases (i) they don’t fully understand the English documentation and (ii) they don’t understand the
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