Legal-X by Bottomline is a web-based legal spend management solution designed to help organizations control legal expenses by validating invoice data against predetermined billing guidelines. Key features include: 

• Automated Bill Review: Utilizes a fully configurable rules engine to assess whether rates and expenses conform to billing guidelines and other parameters.
• Advanced Auditing Tools: Enable users to take action across multiple invoices in a single view, enhancing efficiency and compliance.
• Comprehensive Reporting and Analytics: Offers a complete set of standard reports and business intelligence tools to support the analysis of legal expenses and trends, including monitoring and compliance, operational and executive insights, and vendor performance analytics.
• Dashboard Widgets: Provide instant access to simplified views of decision support metrics, facilitating informed decision-making.
• Configurable Screens and Workflows: Allow users to quickly segregate data by various criteria such as status, firm, invoice source, claim type, approval structure, rules, rates, budgets, and timekeeper.
• Real-Time Data Exchange: Integrates seamlessly with other internal systems like Claims and Accounts Payable, eliminating duplicate data entry and ensuring data consistency.
• Document and Receipt Handling: Manages documents and receipts efficiently within the platform.
• Link Analysis Diagrams: Visually map connections between suspect activities and users, linking together connected events to identify potential issues.

These features collectively enable organizations to gain insights into their legal spend, improve the bill review process, increase operational efficiency, and make better-informed decisions.

In February of 2025, Sedgwick, a global provider of claims management, loss adjusting and technology-enabled business solutions and Bottomline, a global leader in business payments and cash management, signed an agreement whereby Sedgwick will acquire Bottomline’s industry-leading legal spend management (LSM) division.