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Streamline month-end proforma review

Increase productivity and reduce time-to-bill by distributing proformas firmwide to review and correct. Our dynamic interface improves workflow by allowing billing staff and attorneys to seamlessly collaborate on edits in real time. Advanced metrics and a customizable dashboard assure that every firm has the data they need.

Eliminate cumbersome edits using pen and paper or inefficient PDF tools. Switch to paperless. Become a ProformaPro.

FEATURES

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Smart split timecards along block billing lines, equal split, or ad-hoc

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Choose to allow or lock edits to Amounts and Rates

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Real-time markup of current proformas

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Customizable interface to each firm’s specific workflow

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Automated or manual distribution of proformas to Timekeepers

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Automatic calculation of Hours, Amounts, and Rates

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Dashboard summary view of proformas that need edit

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Timeline View to review all edits made on a proforma, by user, and rollback if needed

Optional integration with ALP TimeCheck for OCG compliance

Cost Saving

  • Partner time:  ALP ProformaPro provides an average minimum savings of at least one hour per month of partner time.  It replaces the time-consuming, nonrecoverable process of partners printing, hand-marking, and scanning or mailing hundreds of printed pdf pages. Given the average US law firm partner billing rate (Thompson Reuters; 2018) of $600 per hour, 525 partners using ALP ProformaPro should realize savings of $315,000 per month of billable time recovered. (It also reduces the time spent by the billing team and assistants in the prebilling process).

  • Printing Costs: Paper printing of proformas is a significant firm expense. In addition, remote printing costs in work-from-home scenarios are also much more costly and less reliable than office printing, due to reduced efficiencies and lack of scale. ALP ProformaPro eliminates printing costs by providing online markups. 

  • FedEx/Shipping: Paper proforma PDF corrections are time-sensitive and hence expedited, often for next day delivery, to and from billing attorneys’ homes.  As with printing, this significant and nonrecoverable expense is eliminated by the online, instantaneous correction of ALP ProformaPro.

Additional Benefits

  • Accuracy: A standardized system clarifies corrections and provides clear comments that greatly reduce errors.

  • Accountability: Billing edits are clearly documented in ALP ProformaPro, with real-time updates, write-offs, and approvals captured. 

  • Immediacy:  Cash collections and the percentage of recoverability are improved when the time to final bill is reduced.  ALP ProformaPro shortens the billing cycle time in a myriad of ways: 

    • Reduces review and markup time needed by partners

    • Provides immediate forwarding capability for other attorneys to review or approve corrections or answer questions

    • Provides immediate forwarding of proformas to billers

    • Fast compilation and translation of changes into 3E

    • Eliminates time wasted on interpreting or following up on unclear or hand-written corrections.