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We Studied the Realization Gap. Now We're Closing It.

Our research across nearly 400 law firms pinpointed exactly where realization slips between invoice and collection. See what the data revealed — and how leading firms are reversing rejections.

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Measurable Impact on Realization and Cash

Across nearly 400 law firms, rejection rates climbed as client-side AI began enforcing guidelines with a speed and subjectivity no rules engine was built to anticipate. Most e-billing tools were designed for a world where compliance was static. That world is gone.

64%
rise in invoice rejection rates in one year
15%
of reductions come from subjective issues no rules engine can flag
48%
of Global 200 CFOs name e-billing their single biggest revenue-cycle challenge.

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The Forgotten Hours are Lost Revenue

When time is tracked manually and reconstructed from memory, hours go unrecorded, entries arrive late and non-compliant, and revenue leaks out of the work-to-cash cycle before billing ever begins.

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What Leading Firms are Saying

"We are capturing more hours by posting time on a daily basis. Our attorneys and staff find using both the Elite mobile app and Workspace easier than before and are more likely to enter their time on a daily basis."

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Turn Every Hour Worked into Billable Time

Lawyers bill by the hour but manual timekeeping risks losing them when billable hours reconstructed from memory arrive late, wrong, or not at all.

Every Hour Captured Automatically

Always-On Time passively captures billable activity as work happens so fewer hours slip away and realization improves for every lawyer.

Compliant from the First Entry

AI-assisted narratives draft compliant entries and enforce PTA codes as time is entered, and Elite Validate checks them against outside counsel guidelines before they reach proforma review.

Enter Time However You Work

Fee earners capture time from anywhere—device-native mobile, AI dictation, floating timers, Teams meetings, and manual entry—so time is recorded while the work is fresh.

Less leakage. More revenue.

Firms with real-time visibility into their financial data don't just report on leakage — they stop it. Data Connect delivers governed, near real-time 3E data directly into Microsoft Fabric. Less assembling.

The Necessary Foundation for AI Modernization

Nearly 50% of firms say lack of integration is the biggest barrier to AI ROI. Data Connect removes that barrier, so every agent, Copilot, and automation workflow runs on data it can trust.

One Source of Truth

Most firms run financial operations across 4 or more systems. Data Connect puts 3E financial data inside Fabric alongside CRM, HR, billing, and operational data — so every team is working from the same numbers

Decisions on Current Data, Not Last Week's

With governed 3E data continuously available in Fabric, leadership can answer questions about profitability, leakage, staffing, and collections as work happens — not days later. When data is current, leakage patterns surface before they become write-offs.

No Pipelines to Build. No Reconciliation to Run.

Data Connect manages infrastructure, security, governance, and updates — delivering near real-time 3E data without custom engineering or ongoing maintenance overhead.

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Become AI-ready

AI doesn't fail because of the model. It fails because of the data. Every agent or automated workflow your firm deploys needs clean, unified, governed data to function reliably. Data Connect is that foundation, and it’s already working inside Fabric.

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Enable Decisions that Drive Growth

The most important questions your firm needs to answer aren't in any dashboard. When determining where to invest and what drives growth, you need near real-time data to make the judgement call. With Data Connect, those questions finally have answers. That's the difference between reporting on what happened and deciding what to do next. Firms that answer those questions in real time recover revenue that fragmented systems let slip.

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Operational Efficiency

Stop Reconciling, Start Analyzing

Finance teams spend too much time on manual data gathering and report prep instead of strategic analysis. Data Connect eliminates that by delivering clean, governed 3E data automatically so your team can focus on what actually moves the firm forward.

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Revenue Recovery

Stop Revenue Leakage as It Happens

Firms with real-time access to unified financial data don't just report on leakage after the fact — they catch it as it happens. With 3E data continuously available alongside billing and collections data in Fabric, your firm can identify patterns in write-downs, discounts, and realization gaps before they become permanent losses.
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Governed 3E Data, Delivered Into Fabric

Firms on 3E Cloud have access to their data — the challenge is getting it into analytics, reporting, and AI tools without rebuilding pipelines or consolidating into another system. Data Connect provides that delivery, directly into Microsoft Fabric, continuously and securely.

Your Firm Controls How the Data Gets Used

Once 3E data is inside Fabric, your teams can use it across reporting, workflows, automation, and AI without being limited by vendor architecture or asking anyone for permission.

Enabling Automation and AI at Scale

A unified, governed data layer isn't just useful for reporting — it’s what makes automation, AI, and real-time decision-making possible. With 3E data flowing continuously into Fabric, firms can automate end-to-end processes, deploy agentic AI, and scale without rebuilding the infrastructure underneath it.

Don't Just Connect Point Solutions. See Your Whole Revenue Cycle.

Less reconciliation, one source of truth, all embedded in 3E—the preferred solution, complete with embedded AI, for the work-to-cash needs of leading firms worldwide.

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See What Always-On Time Capture Can Do for Your Firm

Start with a working session with an Elite expert, mapped to how your fee earners actually work.

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A UK partner who once relied on handwritten notes now records a complete day with Always‑on Time, eliminating the hidden gaps his paper system never revealed and strengthening realization across his matters.

 

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See what firms are gaining in cash, capacity, and protected revenue by moving financial operations to the cloud, based on data from law firms already running on Elite's platform.

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One System. No Friction. AI That Works.

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Explore Frequently Asked Questions

When lawyers track time manually and retroactively, minutes are forgotten and go unbilled. With Always-On Time, every billable activity is captured automatically, so lawyers realize more of the revenue they earn. 

Intuitive timers, AI-drafted narratives, and Always-On passive capture let lawyers record work quickly and easily without disrupting their flow. Less friction means more consistent entries and less manual effort. 

Mobile access promotes synchronous timekeeping. When lawyers can log and submit time anywhere, no time slips through the cracks, and entries are more accurate. 

Whether through the browser or the mobile app, key matter, client, and billing data are accessible from centralized dashboards. A consolidated Day View lets fee earners review recorded time and easily spot and fill missing time from their day. 

Time embeds compliance across the work-to-cash cycle. AI billing validation flags potentially non-compliant entries and enforces PTA codes and outside counsel guidelines as time is entered, reducing downstream compliance issues and write-offs. 

No. The device-native mobile app uses secure authentication (SSO, MFA) and encryption and can be managed through MDM solutions, so billable data is protected without sacrificing usability.