CounselLink+ E-billing and Legal Spend Management Software

CounselLink+™Legal E-Billing

CounselLink+ is more than an e-billing platform, it’s a comprehensive legal spend management solution designed for corporate legal departments and legal operations professionals. Gain the visibility you need to control, predict, and reduce legal costs with data-driven insights into spending trends, overhead, and savings opportunities.

Outside Counsel Cost Control

Optimize outside counsel costs

CounselLink+ helps you control legal spend by enforcing billing guidelines, benchmarking rates, and managing law firm rates.

Legal Spend Analytics

Data-driven legal spend management

CounselLink+ empowers smarter budgeting and greater cost control through predictive insights and industry benchmarking, helping legal teams make confident, data-driven decisions.

Financial Governance

Ensure compliance with every invoice

Spend management isn’t just about cost, it safeguards compliance and elevates legal’s role in business strategy.

What customers are saying

"CounselLink has greatly improved our process of receiving and paying invoices. We have been able to cut external legal bills over 50% since 2017."

Legal Department AdministratorMedium Enterprise Financial Services Company

"CounselLink has been invaluable to our company. We have been able to cut external legal spend and use analytics to show cost savings. It is easy to search for invoices, to upload and attach extra details for SEC Exams, etc."

Legal Department AdministratorMedium Enterprise Financial Services Company

"I run weekly reports in CounselLink for subsidiaries to give insights into legal spend on litigation matters to help control costs."

Legal Department AdministratorLarge Enterprise Food Company

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Frequently Asked Questions about CounselLink+ E-Billing

Legal spend management refers to controlling, analyzing, and optimizing outside counsel costs. CounselLink helps buyers:
  • Gain visibility into total legal spend across all matters and firms
  • Enforce billing guidelines to reduce costs
  • Compare law firm rates to benchmarks
  • Track savings from discounts, adjustments, and alternative fee arrangements

Typical savings come from:
  • Automatic invoice compliance checks (reducing overbilling)
  • Negotiating better law firm rates using benchmarking data
  • Monitoring budgets vs. actuals in real time
  • Identifying high-cost matters or firms early
LexisNexis reports many clients achieve 5–15% cost savings in year one.

  • Dashboards for legal spend, accruals, savings, and matter budgets
  • Customizable reports by matter type, law firm, practice area, geography, or division
  • Benchmarking database across millions of invoices to compare rates with peer companies

Yes — it supports hourly, fixed fee, capped fee, blended rates, and hybrid AFAs. Clients can track performance of AFAs vs. traditional billing.

  • Immediate savings from billing compliance
  • Better forecasting and accrual management for finance teams
  • Increased negotiating power with law firms via benchmarking
  • More efficient legal ops, reducing manual invoice review/admin time

Yes, CounselLink handles all U.S. and non-U.S. invoices in any currently used currency providing instant currency conversion, identification of taxes (as submitted by outside counsel / vendors). We also support various methods to deal with tax reconciliation including credit notes, disallowing invoice modification and other tools.

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