{"id":152376,"date":"2021-10-19T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2933139"},"modified":"2021-10-19T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:00:00","slug":"apperio-unveils-new-dashboard-providing-law-firms-with-a-client-centric-view-of-legal-spend-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2021\/10\/19\/apperio-unveils-new-dashboard-providing-law-firms-with-a-client-centric-view-of-legal-spend-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Apperio Unveils New Dashboard Providing Law Firms with a Client-Centric View of Legal Spend Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rather than \u2018Weaponizing\u2019 Data that Fuels Adversarial Relationships, Legal Spend Management Software Supports the Shared Interests Among Inside and Outside Counsel <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

London, UK \u2013 October 19, 2021 \u2013<\/strong> Apperio, a provider of legal spend analytics and matter tracking software, today announced a new spend dashboard that provides law firms with a live view of their work-in-progress (WIP), accruals, and invoice data \u2013 similar to the view Apperio already provides their clients. This dashboard now offers law firms a centralized view of legal spend across all their client accounts that are connected to the Apperio platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the legal spend products on the market today weaponize data and play one side against the other, which stokes an adversarial relationship between in-house teams and their law firm partners,\u201d said Apperio Founder and CEO Nicholas d\u2019Adhemar<\/a>. \u201cBy contrast, this new dashboard feature puts law firms on the same page as their clients \u2013 fostering greater transparency, trust and collaboration between in-house and external counsel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Apperio platform is better known as a legal spend management<\/a> tool for corporate counsel to see spend ahead of the invoice. Its product receives data directly from the practice management systems used by law firms, to provide clients with real-time visibility into WIP, accruals and historical spend data. This allows in-house teams to proactively manage legal expenses, rather than wait and react to higher-than-expected invoices<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are more than 200 global law firms with practice management systems integrated with the Apperio product. When the company rolled out personalized dashboard functionality<\/a> for corporate counsel, many law firms expressed an interest in having a similar capability. The dashboard feature being announced today is based on our direct discussions with law firms and is uniquely designed to meet law firm needs.<\/p>\n

The dashboard helps law firms solve a historical problem that emerges every time a client calls a billing partner with a budget<\/a> question: The client calls the partner, who calls the assistant, who calls the finance team, who pleads with the associates working on the matter to enter their time so they can run a report \u2013 and provide the partner with the data to respond to the client. This process can take days to unfold and is a sizable disruption to the business of law.<\/p>\n

Law firms with clients that use Apperio have documented the improvement to contemporaneous time entry<\/a> as well as faster payment times<\/u>. Now, with this new dashboard, when a client calls with a budget question, the law firm partner has access to the same data. They can see where the client question is coming from and filter and analyze the data to answer that question on the spot.<\/p>\n

The functionality and benefits available to law firms using Apperio include:<\/p>\n