Bryan King Email & Phone Number

Since becoming an independent e-billing consultant I have completed many successful assignments - including assisting an off-shore law firm in defining an appropriate e-billing strategy; working for UK /international firms on their e-billing projects and recently advised two major law firms on their near-shore global e-billing team implementations. I have also advised corporate legal departments and Legal Operations on their spend management solutions. As an experienced consultant I have written and spoken widely on all aspects of e-billing, including articles in the Law Gazette, Managing Partner and Computers & Law magazines; have run masterclasses and seminars on UK/EU e-billing concerns and was a speaker at the ACL Manchester conference. From 2010 I advised the Association of Cost Lawyers Jackson working group on how the standards and technology used in commercial e-billing could be introduced into civil litigation costs management. A further group (the Hutton Committee) defined a set of UTBMS phase/task and activity codes for civil litigation matters in England and Wales (the J-Codes) and produced a new format bill of costs (Precedent S). As a Committee member I was heavily involved in this group's activities. These, and other related reforms, are fundamental to the way that legal costs will be budgeted, managed and assessed in the future.More recently I have been involved in new solutions for clients and law firms, enabling them to share budget and legal cost information while the work is ongoing i.e. in the pre-billing phases of each matter. These offer much more visible collaboration in terms of shared financial and operational data in a secure environment. This can be in real-time, or at more extended time periods, depending on the client requirements. I call this approach "beyond e-billing" and major clients are now asking their external law firms to provide this level of costs, WIP, staffing resources and expenses detail in a more timely fashion.

From 1996 onwards as Systems Development Manager, with an international development team, was responsible for the firm's information/intranet/extranet systems (Know-how, Know-who, Transaction databases, Contact systems and client-facing Knowledge-based applications). I also managed the firm's Conflict Clearance/Risk Management systems and the global HR PeopleSoft system teams. From 2001 had responsibility for the management of Clifford Chance's legacy Finance systems and project managing elements of the firm's world-wide deployment of a new practice management system.Between 2004 to 2007 I was the global co-ordinator of the firm's growing e-billing (electronic invoicing) initiatives. As well as successfully managing activities across the firm's billing departments and practice areas this involved working with major clients, e-billing intermediaries, other law firms, regulators and the various e-billing standards bodies.