Jane A. Bennitt

Biography

With more than two decades of hands-on experience in implementing collaborative client/outside counsel solutions, Global Legal Ebilling founder Jane A. Bennitt is a subject matter expert in the creation and deployment of collaborative case management, ebilling and contract management solutions.  Jane’s specialty is global ebilling.  Jane works with law departments, insurance claims organizations, law firms and vendors needing assistance with requirements gathering around workflow and business processes, compliance concerns, designing and implementing automated solutions, data availability and quality, and creating metrics to support business process improvement.
Prior to forming GLE, Jane was a Manager with Hildebrandt Baker Robbins.  Previously she was the Director of Data Services at TyMetrix where she was the company’s first employee.  While at TyMetrix, Jane was directly responsible for or assisted in creating many of the systems and processes which led to the incredible success of TyMetrix in its first decade, including, most notably, developing the business model used today for legal ebilling. 
In 2016 Jane returned as President of the LEDES Oversight Committee, a position she filled previously for eight years.  She also has filled the roles of Vice President, Treasurer and Membership and since 2014 has been webmaster for the web sites maintained by the LEDES Oversight Committee.  She is the principal author of the LEDES XML 2.0 (2005) and 2.1 (2007) formats.  In 2008 she led the team responsible for ILTA’s E-Billing Survey of law firms and law departments.  In 2012 she led the LOC’s efforts to update UTBMS Activity and Expense Codes used in legal ebilling; in 2013 she spearheaded the revision of the Timekeeper Classifications; in 2014 Jane led the LOC’s review of the Knowledge Management UTBMS Codes proposed by the Yerra Global KM Expert Group; and has participated in numerous other standards developed by the LEDES organization.  

Education

• High School (or equivalent)
• University Of Connecticut, Bachelor’s Degree

Admissions/Licenses

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