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About the Author
Candy Sharpe, founding team member of BillBLAST, heads up the client
services and product development team. She has been dedicated to the legal
industry for over 15 years. Candy is an expert on legal billing applications,
efficiencies and process improvements for law firms and new technologies to
support and improve them. Contact her at candy@bill-blast.com.
Efficient Billing and
Faster Payments
Help Firms Thrive
Over the last decade, law firms have felt pressure from a faltering
economy and client mandates to reduce costs and utilize e-billing.
Even as the economy improves, law firms find themselves grappling
with the need to be responsive to their clients' billing demands,
while juggling multiple technologies and often outdated business
processes. In order to thrive in the new business reality, firms
must find ways to streamline billing to collect revenue faster,
take advantage of data to allow for more visibility into financial
relationships and make smarter business decisions.