Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre Gmbh

Legal Systems Holding Company

Thomson Reuters Global Resources

Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company

Thomas G Melling

Richard D Boone

Ronald G Wencel

Gregory P Shriber

Robert Thomas

Steven A Jatnieks

Donald Murray

Don Murray

Rob Thomas

Ron Wencel

Greg Shriber

A facility for insuring information currentness is described. The facility receives from a party a request to submit an invoice. In response to receiving a request, the facility tests the currentness of information to be provided by the party. The facility permits the party to submit an invoice in connection with the request only if the testing determines that the information to be provided by the party is current.

Ensuring the accurateness and currentness of information provided by the submitter of an electronic invoice throughout the life of a matter

A facility for conveying accrual amounts through an intermediary service is described. The facility permits vendors to each upload unbilled amounts for one or more matters for a client according to vendor-specific matter identifiers. The facility maps the vendor-specific identifiers for the uploaded unbilled amounts to client-specific identifiers. When the facility receives a request from the client to be you unbilled amounts for one or more matters, the facility displays to a client user the unbilled amounts for the requested matters according to the client-specific identifiers associated with the requested matters.

Accruals processing within an electronic invoicing and budgeting system

A data network storing data relating to work done by vendors for clients is described. The network includes two or more servers, each server containing (1) an exhaustive vendor data base that contains client-independent vendor data for every vendor, and (2) one or more individual client databases, each containing client information for a single client. The exhaustive vendor data base is replicated between the servers, and the client information for each client is contained by one individual client data base on one server.

Vendor/client information system architecture

A facility for collecting distinguished information relating to an engagement of a first organization by a second organization is described. The facility provides an interface usable by at least one user affiliated with the second organization to provide the distinguished information. Only after the interface is used by a user affiliated with the second organization to provide the distinguished information, the facility permits at least one user affiliated with the second organization to perform a distinguished process.

Ensuring the entry of certain data in a matter management system by leveraging another process

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Thomas G Melling