Are Your Billing Guidelines Ready for AI?
Billing guidelines were usually written for people, not for AI.
That makes one implementation decision surprisingly important: before automating time-entry descriptions, agree on what a good entry should actually look like.
That makes the wording and acceptance matter more than it used to. Where a lawyer does not agree with how the guideline is written, the time entry descriptions produced from it tend not to look right to them either.
The firm-level billing guideline should therefore be the foundation.
Before bringing AI into time recording, we recommend making sure it is up to date and commonly accepted across the firm.
Then AI can help apply it more consistently across thousands of individual entries.
Better automation starts with better guidance.
