Consultant – LBA (Initial Reviewer)

The Consultant - LBA (Initial Reviewer) at Wolters Kluwer is responsible for performing Legal Bill Analysis (LBA) within the LBA Center of Excellence. This involves prompt, accurate, and efficient auditing of electronically submitted legal fee and expense invoices from law firms and vendors. The role requires verifying compliance with billing guidelines, adjusting non-compliant entries, documenting justifications, and providing guidance to business unit partners on LBA process issues.

Must Have

• Efficiently and accurately review legal invoice entries.
• Verify compliance to legal billing guidelines.
• Verify accuracy of UTBMS task codes.
• Document reasons for adjustments, identifying violated guidelines.
• Review, analyze, and evaluate legal fee and cost/expense invoice entries.
• Exercise discretion and sound judgment in audit and adjustment decisions.
• Paralegal certification or bachelor’s degree in a legally related discipline or equivalent work experience.
• 1+ years of experience in a legal services or legal auditing environment.
• Experience with legal billing processes.
• Understanding of federal and state rules of civil procedure.
• Understanding of legal terminology and claims legal situations.
• Familiarity with common business math.
• Computer skills with ability to learn electronic legal bill submission and auditing software.
• Effective communication with sound command of English language.
• Excellent spelling and proofreading skills.
• Organizational skills.

Good to Have

• Multijurisdictional exposure preferred

Perks & Benefits

• Well-being benefits (tools, programs, and resources to help employees feel healthy, happy, safe, and prosperous)
• Caring and inclusive culture
• Opportunities for growth

OVERVIEW

The Consultant - LBA for Wolters Kluwer will be responsible for performing Legal Bill Analysis (“LBA”) in the Legal Bill Analysis Center of Excellence (“LBACOE”).

You will be responsible for the prompt, accurate, and efficient auditing of electronically submitted legal fee and expense invoices submitted by law firms and vendors of our clients. You will also be responsible for adjusting invoice line-item entries, where those line-item entries violate provisions of the relevant billing guidelines and documenting the justification for such adjustments. You will provide guidance to business unit partners regarding issues or opportunities within the LBA process.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Efficiently and accurately review legal invoice entries.

• Receive legal invoice assignments from the Operations Support Specialist and/or work the intake queue for self-assignments.

• Verify the compliance to legal billing guidelines by law firms and vendor submitting invoices.

• Verify the accuracy of the UTBMS task codes (Fee, Activity and Expense codes) applied to invoice line items.

• Document reasons for any adjustments made to invoice line items, identifying the billing guideline violated and the rationale for the amount adjusted.

• Forward the audited legal bill through the review chain as required.

• Communicate and calibrate with Legal Invoice Analyst and Quality Assurance Analyst team members.
• Review, analyze, and evaluate legal fee and cost/expense invoice entries and exercise discretion and sound judgment when making audit and adjustment decisions.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Paralegal certification or bachelor’s degree in a legally related discipline or equivalent work experience

Experience: 1+ years of experience in a legal services or legal auditing environment including:

• Experience with the legal billing processes.
• Understanding of the federal and state rules of civil procedure.

Other Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes:

• Understanding of legal terminology and claims legal situations, multijurisdictional exposure preferred.
• Familiarity with common business math and possess appropriate business telephone skills.
• Computer skills with the ability to learn the electronic legal bill submission and auditing software.
• Effective communication with a sound command of the English language-- grammar, syntax and style -- including an understanding of the conventions of punctuation and capitalization.

• Excellent spelling and proofreading skills including the ability to obtain information and deliver information to others noth orally and in written form.

• Organizational skills including the ability to organize work in an orderly fashion conducive to the prompt, efficient review of an appropriate number of legal invoices.

TRAVEL: < 5%

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