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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We are pleased to announce that Phase 1 of the LEDES Error Codes have been ratified and are now available on this web site here. Error Codes are a new type of LEDES standard established to provide a standardized structure to ebilling invoice errors. The codes will serve to standardize the identification of LEDES file
The Board of Directors has authorized the formation of a new IP Improvement Subcommittee whose charter explains their mandate as follows: Intellectual Property invoices are different than many other types of legal invoices in the sense that they are typically high in volume and low in dollar amount. Those who review Intellectual Property invoices often
Standards Director Nick Puschak is restarting the API subcommittee to consider phase 2 development tasks. If you would like to participate in the subcommittee, contact LOC here.