Legal Bill Reviewer
Philipsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania, 16866, USA
Listed on 2026-03-01
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Law/Legal
Legal Counsel, Litigation, Lawyer, Employment Law
Our client reviews legal bills for accuracy, fairness, reasonableness, and compliance with billing guidelines, and are looking for an attorney to serve as a Legal Analyst. They want someone who previously worked long hours at a firm and are looking for something part-time and stress-free, as concurrent work is permitted. The nature of the work is ongoing and batched in projects, which allows you to work as much or as little as you want each week.
This is a fully remote position with a small travel requirement of two to four 1- to 2-day trips to New York, NY or Doylestown, PA for onboarding. Eastern or Central Time Zone working hours.
Pay is expected to average $100-$150/hr, depending on how much you work.
Responsibilities:
- Reviewing client legal bills for overbilling according to company guidelines
- Proposing billing reductions and providing written justification for each billing error spotted
- Adhering to all company guidelines and policies in bill analysis and communications
- Maintaining a high standard of work with few analysis errors
You will be assigned bills in batches that you will be expected to review by a certain deadline.
Evaluate all line items in each bill for billing accuracy. When you find instances of overbilling, you will note a proposed reduction according to our guidelines and provide a written justification for that proposed reduction detailing why the line item in question should be considered over billed.
Your job will be to read between the lines and identify both obvious and non-obvious errors. We provide comprehensive onboarding training and reference resources to help our Legal Analysts quickly find billing errors, propose reductions, and provide written justifications.
Qualifications
- Must be an attorney currently licensed to practice law in the United States, in good standing with their respective state bar association.
- Must have 2+ years experience working at a large law firm that bills clients hourly.
- Knowledgeable about legal work, internal law firm policies and practices, and legal billing.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- Curious and willing to learn.
- Extremely detail-oriented.
- Comfortable reviewing and analyzing large amounts of data, and performing data entry.
- Healthy amount of skepticism.
- A "rule follower" but not a "people pleaser."
- Good sense of tact and personal diplomacy; good at persuading people without coming across as pushy.
- Pride and sense of ownership in one's work; the type of person who proofreads their own emails three times before hitting "send."
- Clear, concise, polished writing skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Compensation Details
- Compensation for this role scales with performance as it is based on a simple formula: $1.50 per billable hour reviewed. Based on internal data, this typically comes out to $100-$150 per hour.
- This compensation structure gives you maximum flexibility to review legal bills whenever works with your schedule.
About Hire Counsel
Hire Counsel is a legal staffing agency. We build connections between legal professionals and our clients, some of the nation's largest law firms and legal departments (and some of the smallest). By bringing together good lawyers with our clients, we give individuals the option to work on contract (temporary) assignments, providing them stability as we simultaneously help them land at a permanent home.
Hire Counsel holds all resumes in the strictest confidence.
Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 40027 when responding to this ad.
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