NEW INITIATIVES FOR UTBMS & LEDES
A recent article, “Workers’ Comp Code Set 15 Years in the Making” in DRI’s For the Defense, written by Toronto law professor John G. Kelly brings readers up to date on the new initiatives underway for the Uniform Task Based Management System (UTBMS) and Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard (LEDES). The article provides a brief history of UTBMS and LEDES. “In 1998, Internet e-billing was emerging as the preferred method for transmitting invoice data from outside law firms to corporate clients. This led to the development of LEDES. It is intended to serve as a standard file format to be used by the legal industry for the electronic exchange of information. UTBMS is digital based, making it ideal for e-billing. It has become synonymous with LEDES supported e-billing applications. Insurance defense litigation has emerged as the dominant user of UTBMS/LEDES/E-Billing applications with task based billing.”
“The UTBMS Workers’ Compensation Code Team has completed the development of the model code set and is in the process of validating it through a series of bill review tests and presentations. A presentation session is scheduled for the upcoming DRI Annual Meeting. Official rollout of the code set with the posting on the ABA website is scheduled for January 1, 2011.”
CLICK HERE for the UTBMS Litigation Code Set
CLICK HERE for the LEDES website.