ADERANT Enhances Support for E-Billing.Next Release of ADERANT Expert to Include Powerful New E-Billing Functionality and Full Support for LEDES XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. E-Billing Version 2 ATLANTA -- ADERANT, a global provider of business and financial management software for professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. organizations, today announced that the company will enhance its support for e-billing by introducing new e-billing functionality and fully supporting the LEDES XML E-Billing Version 2 standard in the next release of ADERANT Expert. "E-billing has become an essential requirement for today's law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
New E-Billing Functionality The next version of ADERANT Expert will enhance the ability of law firms to manage and control their e-billing activities. ADERANT Expert Release 7.5 will include comprehensive functionality for managing e-billing related information, including extended information about e-billing vendors and client details as well as the ability to add specific information to matter-level e-billing support contacts. In addition, the improved solution will also include a broader range of e-billing data attributes to assist firms with the administration of other e-billing information. Functionality will be added to ADERANT's business management solution that supports code translation without requiring the matter to be part of a task-based billing plan. Additionally, matter attributes will be extended to support more production formats, enabling firms to generate e-bills in parallel with paper bills and ensuring content consistency throughout the entire billing cycle Billing cycle The time elapsed between billing periods for goods sold or services rendered. . ADERANT Expert Release 7.5 will include a robust rules engine to help firms ensure compliance with matter terms and reduce the number of post-submission issues and rejections. The new functionality will automatically screen and validate e-bills based on firm-defined parameters before sending an electronic invoice. The enhanced software will also include extended functionality for managing submitted bills. The new capabilities will provide firms with greater flexibility over the releasing and posting of e-bills and increase the insight billing personnel have into the disposition of e-bills. Support for E-Billing Industry Standards In addition to powerful new e-billing functionality, ADERANT Expert Release 7.5 will also include full support for the LEDES XML Version 2 standard. The Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard The Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard is a set of two file format specifications intended to standardize bill/invoice data transmitted electronically ("e-billed") from a law firm to a corporate client. It is abbreviated LEDES, and usually pronounced as "leeds". , or LEDES[TM], file format is the legal industry's open standard for the electronic exchange of data, especially billing information. Originally developed by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the ongoing development of LEDES has been handed over to the LEDES Oversight Committee (LOC LOC - lines of code ), a voluntary body of legal industry representatives. ADERANT is an active member of the LOC and actively participated in the development of the LEDES XML E-Billing Version 2 standard to ensure that the new standard meets the needs of international law firms. About ADERANT ADERANT, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, is a leading provider of software for services organizations. The global software company offers a comprehensive suite of solutions, consisting of financial, resource and practice management software that enables services organizations of all sizes to maximize operational efficiencies. ADERANT provides solutions to the largest and most prominent service organizations in the world, including Clifford Chance Clifford Chance LLP is the largest law firm in the world, both by number of lawyers and revenue, and a component of the UK's "Magic Circle" of leading law firms. In recent years, it has universally come to be accepted as the world's leading global law firm. , Computer Sciences Corporation, Greenburg Taurig, Clayton Utz Clayton Utz is one of Australia's largest law firms, with over 1900 staff working across offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra and Darwin. Its clients include more than half of Australia's top 100 companies and more than 250 state and federal government , Deloitte Consulting, Macleod Dixon LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , Mayer Brown Mayer Brown is one of the largest international law firms with £538.5m (approximately US$1b) of 2006 revenue[1]. It was founded in 1881 by Levy Mayer in Chicago. Rowe & Maw LLP, Skadden Arps and Winston & Strawn. ADERANT also has offices in Asia Pacific and Europe. More information is available at www.aderant.com. Editors Note: The correct usage of the ADERANT name is all capitals. Javelan and Novient are registered trademarks and ADERANT Expert, CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. .Net, Keystone key·stone n. 1. Architecture The central wedge-shaped stone of an arch that locks its parts together. Also called headstone. 2. The central supporting element of a whole. , and all ADERANT product logos are trademarks of ADERANT Holdings, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the properties of their respective owners. |
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