Invoices that clear on the first pass
LEDES generation, outside counsel guideline checks and carrier submission handled before the invoice leaves the firm — so reductions are prevented rather than appealed.
What this looks like today
Guideline violations are found by the carrier
A block-billed entry or a disallowed task code is caught during carrier review, not during pre-bill. By then the reduction is a negotiation.
LEDES files get hand-edited
Every carrier wants a slightly different shape. Someone opens the file, fixes it manually, and hopes the next one is the same.
Reductions below the appeal floor are absorbed
Nobody chases a $340 cut. Forty of them a month never appears as a loss — it appears as revenue that simply did not arrive.
18%
of captured billable work never becomes cash — 88% invoiced, 93% of that collected
Clio, Law Firm KPIs & Benchmarks, 2025
What changes
- Entries checked against each carrier’s guidelines before submission
- Carrier-ready LEDES generated per client rules, without hand-editing
- Every reduction surfaced and worked, including the small ones
- Appeals run as a tracked workflow rather than an intention
Delivered by Mangrove — OCG compliance & carrier-cut recovery
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