AI-FIRST MATTER MANAGEMENT
Know the cost
before it becomes history.
RazorSign connects budgets, matters, law firms, invoices, approvals, payments and spend analytics in one controlled financial operation.
BEYOND INVOICE PROCESSING
Spend control starts before the invoice.
Legal spend begins with the matter, budget, firm and commercial arrangement. RazorSign keeps that context through invoice intake, review, approval, payment and analysis.
Allocate budgets and monitor utilisation.
Centralise invoices and connect them to the work.
Apply configured review and workflow controls.
Route accountable financial decisions.
Compare spend, variance, firms and matters.
BUDGET CONTROL
One matter record.
Budgets, attached to the work.
Allocate and monitor legal budgets against the matters, teams, projects or cost centres that consume them. Forecasting, utilisation and budget-versus-actual reporting keep financial position visible before period-end review.
Budgets assigned to relevant matters, teams, projects or cost centres.
Financial responsibility begins with the work.
Comparison of approved budget with recorded spend.
Variance is visible rather than reconstructed.
Allocated, utilised and remaining budget.
Current position remains visible.
Ongoing visibility into available spend information.
Material changes can be reviewed earlier.
AExpected legal spend based on available budget and spend information.
Legal and finance can plan from the same view.
Notifications for configured budget or spend conditions.
Attention follows the exception.INVOICE OPERATIONS
Every invoice. The full legal context.
Centralise legal invoices. Allocate them to the relevant matter, department or cost centre. Keep the firm, matter, budget, review, approval and payment status in the same operating record.
Intake
Receive and record legal invoices.
Allocation
Connect invoices with matters and relevant financial dimensions.
Review
Approval
Route invoices through review and approval workflows.
Payment
Track status through the supported payment process.
EBILLING
Structured billing. Fewer loose ends.
RazorSign supports eBilling and structured invoice operations. Current product materials also reference LEDES and UTBMS in the legal-spend workflow. Availability and implementation should be confirmed for the selected scope.
Structured Billing
Support structured legal invoice participation.
Invoice Validation
Review invoice information using configured rules and available automated checks.
Workflow
Move invoices through review, approval, payment tracking and analysis.
Financial approval, with a record.
Configure review and approval workflows around the organisation’s legal-spend process. Keep invoice status, reviewer action, approval history and payment progression visible.
Assign invoice review to the relevant legal or business owner.
Approve, reject or return invoices through the configured process.
Use notifications and workflow routing for pending or exceptional items.
Retain activity and status information for later review.
Approval is not payment.
Track invoice and payment status through the supported process. Legal and finance can see what has been received, reviewed, approved and recorded as paid or payable.
Visibility from intake and allocation through review.
Current approval position and workflow progression.
Available payable and payment information.
The matter behind the spend.
Matter-linked spend visibility keeps invoices, budgets, firms and payments beside the legal work that created them. Legal leadership can review cost with matter activity, risk, stage and responsibility, rather than as a disconnected finance entry.
Legal work and operating context.
Allocation, utilisation and variance.
Assigned law firm or attorney.
Recorded billing and approval information.
Review, payment and matter progression.
Outside counsel. Inside the numbers.
Connect panel counsel, law firms, attorneys, assignments, shared workspaces, invoices, spend and available performance information. The relationship remains attached to the matters and costs being reviewed.
Maintain attorney and firm records.
Manage panel counsel and law-firm relationships.
Connect firms and attorneys to relevant matters.
Share documents, status updates and task information.
Review available activity, spend and performance information.
Counsel collaboration, with legal in control.
The Law Firm Portal supports counsel participation in the matter and spend process. Assignments, shared information, invoice participation, documents, tasks and status updates remain within the governed workspace.
Assigned matters and responsibilities.
Relevant document sharing and collaboration.
Participation in the supported invoice process.
Matter status, tasks and progress information.
Spend data, ready for management.
Review legal spend across the dimensions that explain it. RazorSign brings budgets, actuals, matters, firms, categories, periods and available performance information into dashboards and reports.
Allocation, utilisation, actuals and variance.
Spend connected to matter type, status or available reporting dimensions.
Attorney and law-firm spend with available performance information.
Cost trends and comparisons across available periods and categories.
See the movement. Decide with context.
ALERTS AND EXCEPTIONS
Exceptions should surface themselves.
Use configured alerts and available automated review controls to surface budget overruns, variance or other invoice and spend conditions supported by the selected implementation.
Budget
Utilisation, variance or overrun conditions.
Invoice
Available review exceptions and configured checks.
Workflow
Pending review, approval or escalation.
Payment
Outstanding payable or payment status.
CONNECTED LEGALOPS
Legal spend, connected to LegalOps.
Matter Management
The matter establishes the work and contextual budget.
Litigation Management
Case activity, counsel and cost remain connected.
Law Firm Portal
Firms collaborate and participate in supported invoice operations.
Executive Dashboards
Spend insight returns to portfolio and leadership reporting.
Resources
FAQs
What is legal spend management?
Legal spend management is the structured control and analysis of legal budgets, invoices, payments, firms, matters and related costs.
What does legal eBilling software do?
It centralises legal invoices and supports intake, allocation, review, approval, reporting and payment tracking.
Can spend be linked to matters?
RazorSign materials describe matter-linked budgets, invoices, payments and spend analytics.
Can RazorSign compare budget with actual spend?
Current product materials include budget-versus-actual reporting and spend comparison.
Can RazorSign track law-firm spend?
Current materials include attorney and law-firm spend, panel counsel management, assignments and performance visibility.
Does RazorSign support LEDES and UTBMS?
Current matter-management collateral references eBilling using LEDES and UTBMS. Availability and implementation should be confirmed for the selected scope.
Does RazorSign automatically reduce legal costs?
RazorSign provides visibility and workflow controls. Cost outcomes depend on the organisation’s policies, data and decisions.
