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Stop Managing Chaos. Start Controlling Legal Spend.

Legal billing shouldn’t be a mess of spreadsheets, manual reviews, and unclear rules. Unity ELM e-Billing brings structure, speed, and visibility to how legal teams manage outside counsel invoices.

Built on the Unity framework, it streamlines intake, automates billing guideline enforcement, and surfaces insights that actually drive decisions. Invoices arrive in the formats firms already use. Reports show what matters, when it matters.

Whether you’re launching your first spend management solution or laying the groundwork for broader legal ops transformation, Unity ELM e-Billing helps you move from triage to control. It also gives you room to grow as your needs evolve.

AI-Native Invoice Review is Now Live

Manual invoice review is slow, error-prone, and draining your team’s time. Spend Agent changes that by transforming invoice compliance into a fast, transparent, and AI-first process.

Spend Agent is your AI legal invoice review assistant, purpose-built to streamline invoice review across legal operations. It reads invoices the way your team would, but faster and with built-in transparency. 

No brittle rules. No vendor confusion. No wasted hours.

This is how Spend Agent works for you:

  • Automates invoice review at scale —shortening cycles and improving compliance
  • Understands and applies natural- language billing guidelines
  • Delivers plain-English explanations for approvals and rejections
  • Automates disputes and approvals while providing real-time dispute summaries and savings insights

Spend Agent removes friction between legal ops teams and vendors, reducing onboarding time, closing compliance gaps, and boosting confidence in approvals. It helps legal teams move faster, stay compliant, and build trust with vendors, all while positioning your team for the AI-first, co-pilot future of legal operations.

Outside Counsel Selection, Rebuilt for Legal Ops

Finding the right firm shouldn’t slow you down. CounselMatch brings attorney and vendor discovery into the heart of your workflow, with live data, structured filters, and in-platform search of continuously updated profiles.

Access over 400,000 attorneys and 5,800 firms within your workflow. Search by geography, billing model, responsiveness, and retention. Profiles refresh daily so you always act on current data, not stale directories.

Whether you’re filling gaps or rethinking your panel, CounselMatch helps you move faster, choose smarter, and make well documented panel decisions. No friction or swivel-chair research. Just better legal partners, right where you work.

Legal Ops Needs a New Playbook — And AI Wrote It

For decades, Legal Operations leaders have had to master a patchwork of systems, answer ad hoc questions on the fly, and make it all work — often with limited budgets.

Today’s most effective legal teams are using intelligent AI agents to take control of their spend and modernize how they manage it. The results: faster invoice reviews, lower outside counsel costs, and sharper forecasting.

Hear from Onit and Swiftwater’s leading legal ops and AI experts as they unpack how AI-first teams are redefining maturity models and driving measurable ROI through smarter end-to-end spend strategies.

You’ll learn how to:

✅ Move from reactive to proactive with AI-powered spend management
✅ Reduce invoice review time and fully enforce OC guidelines at the same time
✅ Select the right firms based on rates, performance, and demographic data
✅ Forecast budgets, reduce case aging, and build stronger outside counsel relationships

Don’t miss this chance to learn how AI-driven eBilling and spend management can help your legal team close costly gaps in your spend strategy — allowing your team to focus on more valuable work.

Take Control of Legal Spend Without the Spreadsheet Headaches

At Onit, we do not just build e-Billing and spend management software, we rely on it every day to run our own legal operations.

Before, our legal team wrestled with manual invoice reviews, clunky reports, and endless back-and-forth with vendors. Now, we manage spend with speed, accuracy, and zero spreadsheet chaos.

In this on-demand webinar, you will hear from Stasha, Onit’s in-house counsel, on how our team made the shift from manual processes to automated, insight-rich spend management. Smith, our Senior Solution Engineer, will show you the exact tools and workflows we use in-house to keep budgets on track and compliance in check.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Automatically flag noncompliant invoice charges
  • Reallocate multi-matter invoices in just a few clicks
  • Track budgets and accruals in real time
  • Build reports and dashboards, no spreadsheets required

Whether you are starting fresh or upgrading your current system, this session will help you cut the busywork and focus on what matters most.

Legal Operations 101

Legal operations is the backbone of in-house legal teams, driving strategy, efficiency, and smarter decisions through data and technology. From aligning legal with business goals to managing budgets and scaling the right tech stack, legal ops powers the business forward.

Our Legal Ops 101 infographic breaks down the five core pillars of success and shows the path from basic process support to becoming a true strategic partner.

See how AI is eliminating bottlenecks, surfacing insights, and making better outcomes predictable. Download the infographic and start operating the future with Onit.