# Invoice reviewer
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Review outside counsel invoices against billing guidelines — flag block billing, vague narratives, excessive hours, rate non-compliance, improper staffing, prohibited charges, and mathematical errors.

Review outside counsel invoices against billing guidelines — flag block billing, vague narratives, excessive hours, rate non-compliance, improper staffing, prohibited charges, and mathematical errors. Generates confidence-scored adjustment memoranda with specific deductions, justifications, and recommended remediation. Use when a legal operations team, in-house counsel, or billing specialist needs to audit law firm invoices for compliance with outside counsel guidelines (OCGs), company billing policies, or general legal billing standards. Supports single-invoice review and batch processing. Also triggers on: legal invoice audit, legal billing review, billing guideline compliance, law firm invoice dispute, LEDES invoice review, UTBMS code audit, outside counsel billing compliance, block-billing analysis, excessive legal fees, legal spend audit, invoice adjustment memo, billing reduction letter, legal fee reasonableness, ABA Rule 1.5 fee review.

This skill enables AI-assisted review of outside counsel invoices for compliance with billing guidelines and legal billing standards. It identifies violations, classifies their severity, generates specific adjustment recommendations, and produces a confidence-scored adjustment memorandum suitable for sending to outside counsel. **Covers:** - Block billing detection and quantification - Vague and insufficient narrative analysis - Excessive time identification against task benchmarks - Rate and timekeeper compliance verification - Staffing and seniority analysis - Prohibited charge detection - Mathematical and administrative error checking - LEDES/UTBMS format compliance analysis - Duplicate billing detection - Travel billing compliance - Adjustment memorandum generation with specific deductions - Batch invoice analysis across multiple matters or time periods **Does not:** - Provide legal advice or replace qualified counsel - Constitute a formal fee dispute or legal proceeding - Apply to any single jurisdiction exclusively — jurisdiction-agnostic with [JURISDICTION-SPECIFIC] markers for professional responsibility rules - Guarantee that adjustment positions will be upheld in fee dispute proceedings - Replace the judgment of experienced billing specialists for complex matters This is a jurisdiction-agnostic skill. Invoice review is governed by: 1. The controlling Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCGs) or bilateral engagement agreement 2. The applicable bar association's rules on fee reasonableness 3. ...

## Jurisdictions

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