Revenue & Operational Impact
Price the leak with your own numbers. Every partner hour spent auditing expense lines is an hour not billed - at a $400 blended rate, ten partner hours a week of expense review is over $200K a year in foregone billings, before counting the write-offs the review still misses. Meanwhile, eDiscovery expenses - often the largest variable cost in litigation matters - blow through budgets because expense auditing happens weeks after invoices arrive, too late to negotiate vendor terms or reallocate resources. Client pressure for fixed-fee arrangements means cost overruns directly compress margins; without real-time expense visibility, partners cannot course-correct mid-matter.