In the context of an in-house legal department, legal spend is simply the total outgoing cost of running your department - internally and externally. Legal spend management is the way that you keep track of and control these costs, manage resources and analyze trends. It typically consists of three components: invoice management (including e-billing), management of outside counsel spend (including RFPs and tracking WIP) and legal spend reporting. Legal spend management software helps teams organize and digitize information, improve workflows and get data with which to make more informed decisions and analyze trends and budgets.

LawVu spend management with e-billing is a comprehensive solution designed for in-house legal teams and outside counsel external law firms.

By seamlessly integrating with LawVu matters and contracts, LawVu spend management provides a holistic platform for effective engagement and collaboration with outside counsel. It also allows for easy upload and digitization of law firm invoices, ensuring a streamlined and efficient billing process. With LawVu spend management, legal teams can enhance their interactions with external counsel while efficiently managing the financial aspects of their legal operations.

Unlike solutions that charge based on spend or require complex implementations, LawVu’s model means you won’t have to worry about unpredictable pricing or limited return-on-investment.

• Pricing based on providers: Our simple tiered pricing is based on the number of firms you engage with because you’ll get value from centralizing and controlling your work no matter what approach you take with each provider. You won’t have to worry about fluctuations in price or limit value to control your subscription costs.
• Easy add-on: Simply add to your plan or subscription and you can be up and running fast, with quick wins from tackling multiple workflows in an integrated system.

Managing invoices in LawVu is secure, flexible and efficient. There are three ways to get your invoices into LawVu:

• Legal users can upload them directly into LawVu
• Outside counsel (Legal Service Provider or LSP) can upload them into LawVu
• Automate the process with LEDES files

For even more efficiency, you can take advantage of LawVu’s AI-powered invoice extraction which allows you to create faster, more efficient workflows to manage spend all while gaining reliable data that provides visibility into all of legal’s work. Learn more about LawVu’s AI capabilities here.

Collaborating more efficiently with your outside counsel is a core tenet of LawVu’s spend management capabilities. With LawVu, you’ll start every engagement with alignment to avoid surprises and build better relationships. And with flexible levels of access, you’re always in control of what your outside counsel can and can’t access within your LawVu account.

Ditch the chaos of email and have a single secure source of truth where you can manage the important work you do with outside counsel.

Yes, LawVu spend management is incredibly valuable to in-house legal teams even without invoice management. With LawVu spend management, you’ll reduce expensive admin overhead by managing outside counsel conversations, documents and status updates all within the same legal workspace.

With consolidated data in one place, you can stop switching between systems and instead be able to answer key questions faster and generate actionable reports on-demand.