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Simplify Legal Matters: See Matter Management in Action

At Onit, we know legal and finance teams shouldn’t have to live in a cycle of last-minute updates, endless reLegal teams shouldn’t have to dig through email chains, spreadsheets, or shared drives just to understand what’s happening with their matters. But when matters are tracked manually — or not tracked at all — visibility disappears, priorities blur, and legal teams are forced into a reactive mode of work.

Let’s fix that.

In this on-demand demo, you’ll see how SimpleLegal’s Matter Management helps legal teams bring structure, clarity, and control to every matter — all in one centralized system.

You’ll see how to:

  • Centralize all legal matters in one searchable, structured platform
  • Track matter status, ownership, deadlines, and key documents with ease
  • Improve collaboration across in-house teams and outside counsel
  • Gain clear visibility into legal workload, trends, and priorities
  • Reduce risk by ensuring nothing slips through the cracks

Whether you’re managing a growing volume of matters or looking to move beyond spreadsheets and inboxes, this demo shows how modern matter management helps legal teams work smarter — without the manual mess.

Watch the on-demand demo and see how SimpleLegal brings order, clarity, and control to legal work.

Enterprise-grade support for evolving legal operations

Enhanced and Premium Support help global teams sustain progress, accelerate improvements, and scale Onit with control.

Legal departments operating at scale need more than ticket resolution. They need a support model purpose-built for complexity, governance, and growth.

These service tiers offer the capacity, responsiveness, and strategic alignment required to evolve enterprise workflows without disruption

  • Structured support model aligned to your internal pace of change
  • Expert partnership for enhancements, integrations, and roadmap execution
  • Faster response and prioritized issue handling for critical operations
  • Built-in governance to guide progress and support transformation
  • Ideal for organizations treating Onit as core infrastructure, not a point solution

Real-Time Control: How Legal Ops Teams Automate Budgets + Accruals

At Onit, we know legal and finance teams shouldn’t have to live in a cycle of last-minute updates, endless reminders, and budget uncertainty. But when you’re relying on emails and spreadsheets, staying aligned feels impossible.

Let’s fix that.

In this on-demand demo, you’ll see how Onit’s budget and accrual automation gives legal ops teams real-time visibility and control — all in a single, streamlined workflow.

You’ll see how to:

  • Automate both budget requests and accrual collection in one place
  • Set custom schedules for firm notifications and reminders
  • Compare budgets vs. accruals instantly 
  • Improve vendor accountability and reduce manual follow-ups
  • Give Finance accurate, up-to-date numbers 

Whether you’re battling last-minute surprises or ready to modernize your spend management process, this demo shows how automation keeps everyone, legal, finance, and outside counsel, on the same page.

Watch now and see how to bring clarity and control to your legal spend.

ReviewAI: Smarter Contract Review, Simplified

See how ReviewAI helps in-house legal teams accelerate contract review, improve control over risk, and reduce manual effort with an AI enabled assistant in Microsoft Word.

Traditional contract workflows are slow, inconsistent, and difficult to scale. ReviewAI operationalizes your playbooks inside Word so reviewers can identify issues faster, apply standard positions, and capture structured data that feeds OnitX CLM and reporting.

  • AI driven review and redlining for common agreement types
  • Configurable playbooks and clause libraries aligned to your policies
  • Native Microsoft Word experience for lawyers and business users
  • Structured clause and risk data that syncs with OnitX CLM

From Request to Review: Budget Automation Made Easy

At Onit, we know managing legal budgets can feel like a never-ending chase — constant follow-ups, scattered spreadsheets, and last-minute surprises. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Let’s fix that.

In this on-demand demo, you’ll see how Onit’s budget request automation streamlines the entire process — from initial submission to final review — so your team can focus on strategy, not spreadsheets.

You’ll see how to:

  • Standardize and automate matter-level budget requests
  • Track budgets in real time for better visibility and control
  • Reduce manual work and eliminate last-minute surprises
  • Keep outside counsel and finance aligned every step of the way

Whether you’re tired of chasing approvals or ready to modernize your budget management process, this demo shows how automation brings clarity, control, and confidence back to your legal operations.

Watch now and see how easy budget management can be.

Legal Operations: Built for what’s next

You are accountable for clean matters, accurate invoices, and defensible records. Your day is full of reviews, approvals, and questions that do not wait. Is this invoice within budget. Which open matters still have accruals that need to be captured for this month. Are these rates correct. Does this contract say what the business thinks it says.

Onit’s Q4 2025 product launch is built with those exact questions in mind. In practical terms, this quarter’s launch focuses on surfacing answers to those questions inside the workflows you already know and trust, backed by the legal expertise and breadth of Onit’s portfolio.

Budget awareness and dashboard enhancements

Turn invoice review into explainable automation. Spend Agent applies legal-specific AI to every invoice, making actions visible, automation configurable by vendor, summaries clear, guideline management simple, and savings trends transparent to Finance.

Key highlights: See the story of each invoice in seconds. At a glance, AI summaries and line level “Spend Agent Insight” notes help approvers act quickly and confidently, with clear guideline references firms can understand and address.

  • Control where AI acts and how assertively. Vendor level Auto, Sentry, and Off settings let you align automation with your risk tolerance and firm readiness, with a complete audit trail for every change.
  • Keep billing guidelines in sync with the business. Bulk upload and update across firms keeps enforcement aligned with new panels and rate agreements, while letting you fix only the entries that fail validation.
  • Prove and defend savings to Finance. A focused Spend Agent dashboard view quantifies reviewed invoices, accepted reductions, and savings trends and highlights outlier invoices that drive leakage.

Spend Agent gives legal teams proof, not promise. Every review is faster, every decision traceable, and every dollar easier to defend.

Matter-level accruals and duplicate detection

Turn manual checks into reliable automation. Teams track accruals at the matter level for better forecasting and alignment with Finance. Reviewers get immediate duplicate alerts on invoices to prevent overpayments and speed approvals.

Matter-level accruals
Accruals are now visible within each matter’s financial tab. Teams can see unbilled estimates alongside approved invoices, removing manual tracking and reducing reporting friction. This enhancement introduces a new view of accruals, giving users clarity at the matter level rather than at the vendor level.

Duplicate detection
Stop duplicates before approval. Reviewers see in-line alerts on the invoice page when invoices or line items overlap, which reduces overpayments, shortens reviews, and improves billing accuracy without extra clicks.

Key highlights

  • Access unbilled accruals in each matter for cleaner forecasting and faster reconciliation.
  • Catch duplicate invoices and line items during review to prevent double payment.
  • Accelerate month-end close with accurate, audit-ready data that Finance can trust.

Together, these updates eliminate repetitive manual work, create a single source of truth for spend, and give teams the confidence to close quickly with accurate data.

These enhancements bring accruals into the matter record and flag duplicates during review, so you get cleaner data and fewer surprises. They reinforce SimpleLegal’s commitment to practical automation.

Self-service user management and blocking controls

Put access control in the hands of your admins. Reduce support tickets, control access, and keep your directory clean with simple self-service actions in EBILLING.SPACE.

Key highlights

  • Disable and reactivate staff users, so inactive accounts can no longer log in
  • Delete staff users with no activity history to keep user lists clean
  • Block lawyers, law firms, and staff users so they cannot be added to matters, invoices, or line items while still appearing in search and reports for audit purposes

These updates help legal operations maintain a cleaner, more controlled eBilling environment with less manual intervention and fewer access risks.

Smart mapping enhancement

ReviewAI now integrates more deeply with OnitX CLM with the introduction of Smart Mapping. ReviewAI can now populate extracted text-based contract terms directly into structured OnitX CLM fields.

Key highlights

  • Contract clauses and key terms automatically appear in OnitX CLM data fields after review
  • Playbook logic and approval rules apply more consistently across users
  • Accurate, structured contract data supports stronger analytics and reporting
  • Built for legal teams, scaling contract review across multiple business units

These updates turn manual term capture into reliable automation. Teams enforce approvals with precision, accelerate cycle times, and trust the data driving their legal operations

Vendor governance | client-initiated onboarding and rate card validation

Turn manual vendor and rate checks into reliable automation. Legal teams start vendor onboarding in the Vendor App and standardize timekeeper rates with rate cards, so activation moves faster and approvals stay consistent.

Client-initiated vendor onboarding
Clients can now start vendor onboarding requests in the OnitX ELM vendor app. The process includes required fields, duplicate checks, and status visibility. Vendor support completes final setup to ensure data integrity and compliance.

Clients launch requests directly in OnitX ELM BillingPoint with required fields, duplicate checks, and status tracking. Vendor Support completes setup to protect data quality and compliance.

Timekeeper rate cards
Vendors upload standardized rate sheets aligned to client classifications and matter context. The system validates incoming timekeeper submissions against the approved card and flags exceptions for review. Most in-policy submissions auto-approve.

Key highlights

  • Accelerate vendor activation with guided intake workflows
  • Maintain consistency and reduce manual rate verification
  • Gain transparent, auditable insight into rate and vendor data
  • Ensures data consistency and compliance while reducing administrative delays

These enhancements help legal teams onboard vendors faster, maintain rate accuracy, and ensure every relationship operates within clear and compliant financial parameters.

AI Contract extract | folder-level tag template association

Automate metadata where files live using AiCE. Map tag templates to folders, so new documents arrive with the right fields, improving AI extraction, discovery, and analytics.

Key highlights

  • Configure in folder settings or during creation
  • Bulk actions apply templates across many folders at once
  • Visual cues identify folders with automated tagging
  • Designed for teams scaling contract repositories and governance Uniform tagging enables accurate AI extraction and produces structured data that speeds search, strengthens reporting, and supports compliance at scale.

Why it matters

Legal, finance, and procurement teams share the same goal: accuracy and control. These enhancements improve data reliability, speed decision-making, and make legal operations measurable and transparent.

Onit’s Q4 2025 Product Launch Enhancements help legal departments like yours operate with clarity, consistency, and accountability.


Resources

Spend Agent

SimpleLegal enhancements

ReviewAI smart mapping

OnitX ELM enhancements

ContractWorks AiCE

Proving Legal Ops ROI: What Every Leader Needs for Budget Planning and Beyond

Whether you’re wrapping up budget planning, in the middle of it, or just getting started, one thing is certain: proving the value of Legal Ops is a year-round challenge. Finance leaders don’t want anecdotes; they want numbers they can trust. 

During this webinar, you’ll learn how to:

  • Tackle today’s biggest budget challenges (flat budgets, rising outside counsel rates, and AI disruption).
  • Identify the levers that drive real savings and efficiency.
  • Turn budget talks into data-backed ROI stories Finance will trust.
  • Use ROI calculators to frame asks, secure buy-in, and justify legal tech investments. 

Watch this on-demand webinar, and leave with a roadmap on how to shift budget discussions from stressful negotiations to confident, data-driven conversations.

Smarter Legal Operations, Simplified

See how SimpleLegal helps in-house teams streamline operations, control spend, and collaborate smarter in one intuitive platform. 

Legal departments need more than automation. They need clarity, speed, and insight. 
SimpleLegal unifies eBilling, matter management, vendor collaboration, and reporting in a single platform built by legal professionals. It delivers faster time to value, greater visibility, and measurable impact. 

  • Unified platform for spend, matters, vendors, and insights 
  • Configurable workflows that fit your processes 
  • AI-driven reporting for actionable business intelligence 
  • Secure collaboration tools for law firm management 
  • Scalable infrastructure that grows with your organization