LEGAL AUDITING

Accountability Services' legal auditing
can isolate any
inappropriate or inefficient
billing practice that
unnecessarily increased your
legal fees. Aided by
proprietary software,
Accountability Services'
experienced attorneys
recast billing and
disbursement information
into comprehensible formats
and determine what was done,
by whom and for how long.
Then, our attorneys test for
mathematical errors and
internal inconsistencies in
the legal bills and
determine whether the legal
fees and disbursements were
reasonable and whether there
were any inappropriate or
inefficient billing
practice. Once these
practices are identified you
may be entitled to a refund
or a reduction in your legal
bill.
Accountability Services'
legal audits have resulted
in reductions of as much as
75% of the legal fees
Accountability Services customizes its
legal audits to provide the
most cost-effective
solutions for your legal
cost control needs.
Legal Auditing: Preliminary
Provides a general overview of the law firm’s
patterns and practices.
A sampling of the legal bills are selected
for computer assisted
analysis with the balance
reviewed in less detail. The
preliminary legal audit,
memorialized in a written
report, will assist the
client in determining
whether a more comprehensive
audit would be
cost effective. Often, the
preliminary report will be
enough to effectuate a
settlement with the law
firm.
Legal Auditing: Efficiency
Isolates and quantifies the financial impact of any legal
fee billing abuse,
inefficiency or fraud.
Our attorneys
scrutinize all time charges
and expenses with the
assistance of our
proprietary software.
Underlying documentation may
be is
reviewed to assist our
auditors in determining,
among other things, whether
the time taken to complete
particular tasks was
reasonable. Our efficiency
audits culminate in a
written report, which
provides a solid foundation
for negotiating or
litigating the appropriate
reductions in the legal
bills.
Legal Auditing: On-Site
Detects legal fee billing irregularities.
All time charges and expenses are
scrutinized with the
assistance of our
proprietary software. In
addition, our attorneys visit the law
firm to review work product,
time sheets and underlying
invoices for disbursements.
With the audit report in
hand, our clients are in an
excellent position to
negotiate or litigate
appropriate reductions.
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