TeamConnect Express

e-Billing & Matter Management, Nothing to Install.

TeamConnect Express provides simple, on-demand legal operations automation tools for organizations that need an easy e-Billing solution mated to enterprise-class matter management. With core matter management functionality built-in, TeamConnect Express can automate e-Billing alone for capable spend management, or serve as a complete legal operations suite, according to your business requirements.

Delivering Fortune 500 legal operations best practices, TeamConnectExpress is an easy and cost-effective way to streamline invoice submission, evaluate outside counsel performance, and support business-focused decision-making. With a clear upgrade path to the TeamConnect Enterprise, Express customers can get started with legal operations automation on minimal investment while retaining the option to migrate to a fully scalable solution when growth demands it.

Pay-as-you-go SaaS ease, with precision e-Billing and legal automation suite

TeamConnect Express is the easiest way to implement spend management in a light technology environment, with the added benefit of complementary complete legal operations functions, including essential matter management processes without the need for customized setup.

For organizations looking for proven e-billing precision and who already have a matter management solution in place, TeamConnect Express can quickly and easily integrate with existing packaged matter management systems, as well as custom-developed solutions.
 

The fast track to legal cost-savings

Using TeamConnect Express, legal departments benefit from a complete view of financials and visibility into outside counsel spend with the reporting tools to actively manage and reduce expenses. Mitratech e-billing customers may expect as much as 15% savings over a three month period just by automatically catching duplicate invoices, noncompliant bills, and other invoicing errors.

• Connect to all your law firms with free e-billing access for vendors.
• Accept invoices in LEDES 1998B and 1998BI formats, and provide a user-friendly form for manual entries.
• Support UTBMS tasks, expense and activity codes, as well as custom codes.
• Manage alternative fee arrangements, foreign currency invoices, and taxes including VAT.
• Accept multi-matter invoices as well as credit notes.
• Allow law firms to attach documents, such as images of paper invoices and expense receipts, to e-bills.
• Reduce vendor communication challenges with a central system for real-time invoice approval and payment tracking and automated notification.
• Automatically validate invoices for formatting errors, missing fields, duplications, etc., and immediately notify vendors for correction.
• Ensure compliance with established billing guidelines and automatically reject non-compliant invoices.
• Automatically mark non-compliant invoices with warnings at both the invoice level and line item level.
• Auto-adjust non-compliant items such as charge rates and unauthorized expenses.
• Automatically route invoices to the appropriate approvers and configure allocated approval times at the process and individual stop levels.
• Adjust invoices at the header or line item level and enter adjustment reasons for law firm review and reporting.
• Automate and streamline accrual reporting with full accountability, trace-ability, and efficiency gains. 

Connect all parties with one easy-to-use solution

TeamConnect Express eliminates the expenses and inconveniences that law firms often associate with many electronic invoicing solutions. Convenience and simplicity in TeamConnect Express ensure that 100% of your vendors, and not just the preferred ones, actually use the system.

TeamConnect supports in-house and outside counsel in a mutually beneficial partnership by:

• Allowing law firms to easily submit and track invoices without needing to install software on-site.
• Eliminating hidden charge-backs from vendors for expenses associated with submitting invoices. Mitratech does not charge law firms to submit invoices electronically.
• Providing training and support for law firms.
• Eliminating constant calls from vendors about costly errors and invoice status. Law firms can immediately see validation results and easily track submitted invoice status.

Control costs & evaluate counsel performance for optimal business value

Get actionable information about your legal operations efficiency with management, regulatory and operational reports. Financial and performance reports deliver critical information on outside counsel costs, law firm performance, and win-loss ratio. Vital spend and performance metrics are available on dashboards and reports including:

• Spend by Matter Category
• Top 25 Outside Counsel Spending
• Budget Summary
• Invoice Summary
• Settlement Payout
   

SaaS and on-premise upgrades ensure that you’re never boxed in

TeamConnect Express customers whose business requirements evolve can elect to add greater matter management functionality and legal business customization with TeamConnect Legal Suite.  TeamConnect Legal Suite is also available on a SaaS subscription basis or as an on-premise solution for departments looking to move sensitive data behind their firewall.

Additionally, TeamConnect Legal Suite provides optional modules for Litigation Holds, Service of Process Manager, Contract Management, Early Case Assessment, GRC and more. Starting legal operations automation with TeamConnect Express today opens a path to progressively more sophisticated and holistic collaborative accountability practices, throughout an enterprise legal department like yours.