Save 10-18% of your OC spend
with Strategic Spend Control

All your spend data, current and historic, direct from your law and professional services firms. Use benchmarking insights to choose the right firm and the right fee. Negotiate the best rates and discount structure using direct continuous data

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Panel Review

Use historic data from day 1 to aid panel selection and ongoing review.

Organize and oversee legal matters across multiple firms using your custom reporting structures.
Monitor ongoing costs, scope, and budgets for complex legal engagements, even with irregular billing.
Optimize the balance between fixed-fee and hourly-billed matters for greater financial control.
Take a proactive approach to managing legal spend, ensuring projects stay aligned with strategic goals.

Benchmarking

Use Benchmarking to Drive Smarter Legal Spend Decisions

Gain AI data-driven insights to optimize costs, efficiency, and firm performance.
Compare legal spend, rates, and matter efficiency against industry benchmarks and historical data.
Identify cost-saving opportunities by assessing billing trends and fee structures across firms.
Evaluate firm performance to ensure alignment with your strategic and financial goals.
Make informed decisions on budgeting, resourcing, and fee arrangements with real-time data

Rates and discount structure negotiation

Optimize rates and discount structures for greater cost efficiency

Negotiate smarter to control legal spend without compromising quality.
Analyze historical billing data and industry benchmarks to strengthen rate negotiations.
Structure discounts and alternative fee arrangements that align with your budget and strategy.
Ensure transparency in pricing by tracking negotiated rates across firms and matters.
Leverage data-driven insights to secure the best value from your

OCG and billing rules automation

Ensure compliance, transparency, and cost control across all legal matters.

Define and enforce clear billing rules to prevent overages and non-compliant charges.
Automate guideline adherence by flagging violations in real time.
Gain visibility into law firm billing practices to ensure consistency and fairness.
Reduce invoice disputes and administrative burden with structured, enforceable OCGs.

Vendor Selection

Select the right vendors with data-driven confidence

Make informed decisions to build a high-performing legal panel.
Compare firms based on cost, expertise, and past performance to ensure the best fit.
Leverage benchmarking data to assess value and negotiate better terms.
Standardize selection criteria to drive consistency and transparency in vendor decisions.
Optimize your legal panel to align with strategic goals and budget constraints.

Contract approach selection (AFA’s)

Optimize your contract approach with the right alternative fee arrangements (AFAs)

Align legal costs with value by selecting the best pricing model for each matter.
Compare fixed fees, capped fees, success-based pricing, and other AFAs to find the best fit.
Leverage historical data and benchmarks to negotiate fair and predictable pricing.
Reduce financial risk by structuring agreements that incentivize efficiency and outcomes.
Gain flexibility in legal spend while maintaining cost control and transparency

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Continuous data and GenAI for faster and better decision making. Modern e-billing and pre-invoice checks for law firms cutting manual work, elevating relationships.

Analyze your data using natural language AI

Ask your data questions using natural language
AI built drill down reports saved into insight board
Set thresholds on KPI’s to alert you to take action
Use AI to forecast trends and identify risks of overspend

Invoice approval (e-billing)

Next generation AI driven E-Billing with unique BillClear pre invoice flagging approach to dramatically reduce invoice review work

Streamline your approval process to save costs and dramatically reduce lawyer workload
Modern UI, easy to use, low effort for legal staff

Advanced Reports

Build bespoke reports that exactly meet your needs

Benchmark your firm's against each other on many data points to aid vendor selection
Identify trends and gain early warnings in a format that suits you and your audience

A legal team has a specific focus – and it isn’t necessarily finance. They have a piece of work and they have to get it done. As a finance professional, I have to know what costs I’m looking at. With Apperio, we have the data to work together.

Stephen Colthrust

Senior Finance Business Partner

The key point is that there is a degree of clarity when both sides can see where the time is spent more precisely. Rather than having to say, ‘please send me reams and reams of information’, you can see it in Apperio almost immediately. And not just when the money’s already been spent.

Bill Priestley

Chief Investment Partner

Two years ago, we had to ask externally how much we were spending - an unsatisfactory situation for any organisation. Now at the click of a mouse we can see exactly how much we spend with each firm, in real time, on particular work types across the country. That’s a very different, and better, place to be.

Dan Kayne

General Counsel (Regions)