Case Study: Pacific Seafood achieves complete legal-spend visibility and process efficiency with SimpleLegal

System simplicity & process efficiencies increase productivity at Pacific Seafood

Pacific Seafood, one of North America’s largest family‑owned seafood companies, faced a cumbersome, paper‑based legal billing process that left Deputy General Counsel Tony Dal Ponte without visibility into legal spend. Invoices were manually stamped, routed across more than 40 business groups and 25+ controllers, and disputed line items could delay payment by a week—so Pacific Seafood implemented SimpleLegal’s e‑Billing and matter management system to streamline tracking and approvals.

SimpleLegal delivered a simple, feature‑rich platform with flexible invoice and approval workflows, electronic invoicing, and a legal‑department system of record that integrates the legal team, business units, and controllers (email #Paid responses for payment initiation). The result: immediate visibility into spend, vendors, and budgets, robust reporting to compare rates and track spend by matter, 100% process adoption, and 100% of law firms on e‑Billing—enabling Pacific Seafood to save time, manage outside counsel proactively, and make more strategic operational decisions.

Pacific Seafood

Tony Dal Ponte

Deputy General Counsel