Platform — e-billing & Spend Management

By the time the invoice arrives,
it's already too late.

Every other e-billing tool starts at the invoice. PERSUIT starts at the moment a matter is scoped, priced, and awarded. So when the invoice hits, you already know if it's right.

See It in Action How It Works
$22B+
Legal spend managed
through PERSUIT
26%
Average cost reduction
on first engagement
72%
of RFPs on PERSUIT
use Alternative Fee Arrangements
200+
Enterprise legal teams
trust PERSUIT
The Real Problem

Legal Ops doesn't hate
e-billing.
They hate what it
makes them do.

  • Explaining budget overruns after the fact.
  • Manually chasing firms for accrual estimates every month — and getting fiction.
  • Rate cards buried in PDFs, disconnected from enforcement.
  • Agreed rates quietly renegotiated per matter, with no visibility until annual review.
  • Acting as the human middleware between procurement, finance, and outside counsel.
  • Systems that flag problems only after the invoice is already in.

The dirty secret? Firms aren't careless. They're managing dozens of clients, each with different billing rules, accrual timelines, and OCG nuances. The system is broken — not the firms. PERSUIT fixes the system.

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What Makes PERSUIT Different

Traditional e-billing records
what happened.
PERSUIT controls
what happens.

Traditional e-billing
Downstream admin processTreats billing as something that happens after the work is done. By then, you've already lost.
Rate cards in PDFsDisconnected from enforcement. Agreed rates quietly drift per matter with no visibility until annual review.
Static, guessed budgetsBudget set. Scope changes. Invoice surprises. Repeat.
Accruals are educated guessesManual estimates from firms every month. Finance doesn't fully trust the numbers. Neither do you.
Firms must be policedAll the compliance work lands on Legal Ops.
PERSUIT e-billing
One connected operating systemIntake, sourcing, pricing, guidelines, budgets, WIP, and billing — all connected. Commercial discipline from day one.
Rates flow from RFP into e-billingNo PDF graveyard. Agreed vs. actual is visible in real time, not at annual review.
Living, phased budgetsScope evolution is tracked, not ignored. Budgets from the RFP flow directly into billing.
Continuous WIP from firm systemsAccruals reflect reality. Finance trusts the numbers. You know your total liability before invoices land.
BillClear makes compliance easy for firmsFirms correct invoices before submission. Value is captured without pushing policing work onto your team.
What Others Can't See

Agreed vs.
Actual.

Most enterprises agree on rates once a year and then hope they stick. PERSUIT makes hope unnecessary. Rates negotiated in the RFP flow directly into e-billing enforcement. If a rate is overridden, it's visible. If scope expands, it's tracked. If volume discounts are promised, they activate.

This is the first time in legal ops history that the rate you agreed to and the rate you paid are the same number, in the same system, visible to everyone.

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Rate Compliance — Live View
Real-time
Potter & Potter
$850/hr
$850/hr ✓
Aelberry & Assoc.
$1,100/hr
$1,250/hr +$150
Elkins & Livingston
$975/hr
$975/hr ✓
Landys
$1,050/hr
$1,180/hr +$130
2 firms billing above agreed rates. Total overcharge: $43,200 this quarter. Review →
From Estimated Accruals to Actual Liability

If you can't see WIP, you don't know what you owe. That's a governance problem.

Month-end accrual calls used to mean chasing 15 firms for manual estimates — and getting educated guesses that made Finance nervous. PERSUIT connects directly to firms' time and billing systems. WIP is continuous, not periodic. You see what could be invoiced before it's invoiced.

Finance stops getting blindsided. Month-end close gets faster. And your credibility with the CFO goes up — because your numbers are real.

Live WIP Exposure
Updating now
M&A Matters
$2.1M
Litigation
$890K
Regulatory
$340K
Employment
$180K
Total live exposure
$3.51M

We're not here to police firms. We're here to make compliance easy for them.

  1. Firms want to comply Managing 50 clients with 50 different billing rules, accrual timelines, and OCG nuances is genuinely hard. We automate the complexity so compliance happens by default.
  2. BillClear: fix it before submission Firms see and resolve flagged issues before an invoice is submitted — not after a rejection. Fewer disputes. Faster approvals. Better relationships on both sides.
  3. AMLAW adoption at scale PERSUIT is already embedded with the firms you work with. Onboarding is measured in days, not quarters.
  4. Panel strategy becomes data-driven Live volume data activates promised discounts automatically. Panel decisions stop being guesswork.
What Customers Say

The teams who moved from reactive to controlled.

Before PERSUIT, accruals were a monthly negotiation with uncertainty. Now Finance trusts the numbers before the month closes.
Head of Legal Operations
Global Fortune 500 Company
PERSUIT Customer
We found $4M in savings within the first month — not from renegotiating, but from actually enforcing what we'd already agreed.
VP Legal Operations
Enterprise Technology Company
PERSUIT Customer
The question we get from Finance is no longer "why did this cost so much?" It's "how did you know it was coming?" PERSUIT changed that dynamic completely.
Chief Legal Officer
Global Financial Services
PERSUIT Customer
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Common Questions

We've heard the objections. Here's the honest answer.

Is this real e-billing, or light functionality?
Real. The largest private equity firm in the world is a delighted customer. Full invoice processing, GL coding, matter management, budget tracking, and WIP visibility — not a lightweight add-on.
Will my law firms actually adopt this?
Yes — and they already have. PERSUIT has strong AMLAW adoption. BillClear makes compliance easier for firms, not harder. Onboarding is days, not quarters.
Is this another system to integrate?
No — it's done for you. PERSUIT handles the integrations. Your team is not the project manager. You're the beneficiary.
Do we have to rip and replace our current system?
No. But you probably should. Most teams run PERSUIT alongside existing tools first and migrate as confidence builds. The numbers usually make the case quickly.
Integration

Already have an e-billing system?

PERSUIT connects directly to Brightflag for automatic matter creation — and integrates via API with any e-billing platform. Agreed budgets, firm assignments, and pricing terms flow downstream before the first invoice arrives.

Brightflag Managed Integration
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Stop explaining what happened.
Start controlling what happens.

See how PERSUIT e-billing connects to the rest of your external legal spend — from the first RFP to the final invoice.

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