Case Study: AccuWeather achieves 20% reduction in legal spend in two months with Brightflag’s automated billing guideline enforcement

How AccuWeather Cut Legal Spend By 20% with Automated Billing Guidelines

AccuWeather, the global weather and digital media company, needed greater visibility into how external firms were billing its patent matters. Their internal accounting software lacked granularity, was not user-friendly for attorneys, and forced manual Excel work. To address this, AccuWeather turned to Brightflag and its A.I.-powered legal billing and invoice management capabilities to enforce billing guidelines and centralize matter data.

Brightflag implemented a centralized system of record with automated billing-guideline enforcement, AI-driven invoice categorization, and detailed reporting. As a result, AccuWeather cut legal spend by 20% in two months, boosted oversight of patent prosecutions, reduced administrative time spent on invoices, and gained clear business intelligence on spend by matter and work phase.

AccuWeather

Michael Root

Chief Licensing Officer