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DataCert to Present at Practical Law Company’s Law Department Forum

London Presentation Scheduled for 6 March

LONDON, Feb. 27, 2008 – DataCert, Inc., the leading provider of legal and IP spend and matter management solutions, announced today that it will present a discussion on legal invoicing at the Practical Law Company’s Law Department Annual Forum 2008.

Jeff Hodge, DataCert’s senior director and vice president, will lead a session titled, “The Transparent Billable Hour: The Legal Invoice as a Relationship Management Tool.” The session is scheduled for 6 March, 2008 at 1:45 p.m. in London.  

The practice of billing by the hour, the traditional method used by law firms to track billable work for their corporate clients, often leads to more ambiguity than clairvoyance when it comes to understanding corporate legal spend. Interest in the billable hour has peaked with the introduction of electronic invoicing technology that allows corporate law departments to take control of their spending. With this in mind, Hodge’s discussion will tackle questions such as:

• What is the controversy over the billable hour?
• What can the billable hour really tell you?
• How can you make the most of the billable hour?
• How can technology make the most of the billable hour?

The session is ideal for general and corporate counsel and managers/administrators who handle outside counsel and legal spend.

The Sixth Annual PLC Law Department Forum, dedicated to senior in-house counsel, provides an interactive forum for the discussion of best practice strategies and tools. The forum begins on 5 March and will be held at the Radisson SAS Portman Hotel, 22 Portman Square, London W1H 7BG. For more information, visit http://ld.practicallaw.com/5-375-8233.

About Jeff Hodge

Jeff Hodge, DataCert's vice president and senior director of Europe, Middle East and Africa, has almost 20 years of experience working with clients to implement and utilize advanced technologies to improve processes and decrease costs.  He has driven the development of the Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard (LEDES), a standard for moving data between trading partners and serves as a liaison for the LEDES Oversight Committee to the United Nations. As a champion of U.S. and European e-business and standards and a pioneer of the legal electronic invoicing industry, Hodge often writes and speaks on corporate legal strategies and the use of legal technology.

About DataCert, Inc.

DataCert, Inc. is the largest and fastest-growing supplier of legal and IP spend and matter management solutions. Corporate counsel rely on DataCert’s products and services to manage legal activities and provide transparency into outside legal spend. With 72 Fortune^® 500 clients and customer connections in 126 countries, DataCert processes in excess of $9 billion of electronic invoicing data on an annualized basis. Visit DataCert at www.datacert.com for more information.