Legal is the last large cost center in the enterprise with no instrumentation. Navella audits every outside-counsel bill — block billing, rate caps, overstaffing, reasonableness — and recovers what's overbilled.
Send your last 90 days of LEDES files. We'll show you, line by line, exactly what you overpaid.
Every invoice line, read and reasoned — not keyword-matched against a rulebook.
| LINE | HOURS | AMOUNT | FLAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| L250 · Draft dispositive motion"attention to case matters; review correspondence; strategy" | 6.0 | $6,900 | Block Billing |
| IP partner · J. Reyes$1,150/hr billed vs. $980 agreed cap | 4.2 | $4,830 | Rate > Cap |
| Deposition · 3 partners staffedsenior time not proportionate to task | 18.0 | $18,400 | Overstaffing |
| A111 · Organize and index filesclerical work, non-billable under OCG | 2.5 | $2,150 | Clerical |
A deterministic layer catches rate caps, arithmetic, and duplicates. The AI layer reasons about block billing, proportionality, and reasonableness — the judgment calls a rules engine structurally can't make. Every flag carries a citation, and a human approves before a dollar moves.
3 lines exceed the agreed IP-partner cap of $980/hr. Arithmetic, increment, and duplicate checks passed.
Line 14 bundles 6.0 hrs across review, correspondence, and strategy — block billing, no task-level detail. 18 hrs of partner time on a routine extension sits above the benchmark for this matter type.
Reduce $9,640. Cites OCG §4.2 (block billing) and §2.1 (rate freeze), with a drafted memo to the firm. Pending legal-ops approval — Navella never reduces a bill silently.
Ingests LEDES 1998B and UTBMS task/activity codes directly. Firms still on PDFs get parsed into the same schema before review.
Every flag carries a reasoned justification and a citation to the exact guideline it violates, plus a suggested adjustment. No silent reductions, ever.
Rate and effort percentiles by practice area, matter type, geography, and firm tier — built from every department Navella sees. Audit becomes strategy.
Drafts the reduction memo to the firm — specific, professional, citing the violated guideline. A six-hour manual review becomes thirty minutes.
Predicts work-in-progress from each firm's billing history and generates accrual estimates for month-end close. The feature that lands the CFO.
Every adjudication logged and exportable. SOC 2 posture and a serious security stance, built for procurement and legal-data review from day one.
Your second-largest controllable expense has been flying blind.