Reclaim your budget. Reduce outside counsel spend.
CounselAudit.ai is an AI-native platform that automates the heavy lifting of invoice vetting, ensuring every dollar spent aligns with your guidelines. Not a legacy tool with AI bolted on, built from the ground up with AI at its core.
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Avg. Spend Reduction
14.2%
Only 20% of legal matters sent to outside counsel stay within budget.
A Gartner survey of 200 in-house and law firm lawyers found that most legal departments lack the tools to manage outside counsel spend effectively. The average legal department spends $162,000 per year duplicating work already done by outside counsel.
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
50+ pre-built review checks, AI invoice parsing, flexible guidelines, and real-time spend intelligence. An invoice workflow your team can use on day one, with the approval controls finance expects when you need them. Reviewing invoices in minutes, not weeks.
AI Invoice Parsing
Upload PDF or LEDES invoices. AI extracts every line item, timekeeper, date, amount, and task code. Firms and matters auto-detected.
How it works arrow_forward50+ Review Checks
Run on every invoice, with or without guidelines. Staffing, fees, expenses, travel, billing, AI and technology, effort and scope. Each check says how it is enforced: exact logic, AI-verified, or AI judgment.
See all checks arrow_forwardGuidelines Builder
Generate guidelines from scratch with 53 default rules, or import your existing OCG document and let AI extract the rules. Either way, you're enforcing in minutes.
Build guidelines arrow_forwardBudget & Spend Intelligence
Track budgets by matter, collect WIP from firms for month-end accrual reports, compare fee estimates to actuals. Ask AI about your spend in plain English. Reduce what you pay, not just track it.
See more arrow_forwardTransparent Pricing
From $99/seat/mo. On our website. No “contact sales” games.
Client-Friendly Terms
Terms designed to close, not negotiate. T&Cs and DPA published upfront.
No Implementation Fees. Implementation Included.
Sign up today and review invoices today, or we set it up with you, complete in hours: approval controls, guidelines, budgets. No consultants, no onboarding fees.
Legal Ops that deliver true ROI.
Direct savings from flagged violations are just the start. The sentinel effect drives the bigger win: billing by the hour is the honour system, having visible controls in place keeps it honest. When outside counsel knows that AI-powered enforcement is parsing every line item, billing behaviour changes at the source. The inflated invoice never gets drafted. Continuous automated oversight shifts the burden of accuracy back to the firm, without confrontation, without damaging relationships.
Learn legal billing, end to end
A free, ungated reference library for in-house legal teams: eight in-depth guides, 35 glossary terms, the full UTBMS code set, and 20 sample outside counsel guideline clauses.
The Honor System in Legal Billing
Why hourly billing is self-reported, and what happens when nobody verifies it.
The Sentinel Effect
How visible oversight deters overbilling before an invoice is ever drafted.
Outside Counsel Guidelines
How to write, roll out, and actually enforce billing guidelines that hold.
Legal Billing Audits
What to look for, the violations that recur, and how to run the review.
AI in Legal Billing
From rule-based checks to intelligent compliance enforcement.
Legal Invoice Review Software
A buyer's guide to evaluating bill review tools, vendor by vendor.
15 Legal Billing Best Practices
Practices for in-house teams, from rate negotiation to enforcement.
Legal Spend Benchmarks
Rate tables and cost benchmarks by practice area and firm size.
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