Fully automate and unify OCG Compliance across time, billing and eBilling with Aderant Onyx. In a cohesive system, use AI to extract key terms from outside counsel guidelines (OCGs) and enforce them throughout your time and billing journey. Improve coordination among multiple teams and various workflows. Reduce costs and ease the burden on your people.
Capabilities
Spans 2 product areas: Compliance and Risk Management, Time and Billing.
Workflow Coverage
Based on published feature listings, this tool maps to 2 workflow areas:
- Filing & Compliance
- Billing, Time & Finance
Workflow mappings derived from published feature lists. Not independently verified.
What We Haven’t Verified
This page was assembled from publicly available information. Feature claims and workflow mappings are based on what the vendor and third-party listings publish — not hands-on testing or practitioner feedback.
Workflows
Based on practitioner evidence, Aderant Onyx is used in these workflows:
What practitioners struggle with
Real frustrations from legal professionals — the problems Aderant Onyx addresses (or should address). Sourced from practitioner reviews, Reddit threads, and case studies.
BigLaw billing coordinators spend days processing proformas — reviewing each partner's time entries, applying billing guidelines, adjusting rates, and generating invoices across hundreds of matters monthly
Board meeting prep is a quarterly fire drill — the corporate secretary scrambles to assemble board books from 6 different sources, track director consents across time zones, maintain minutes archives, and ensure governance resolutions are properly filed, all while the GC changes the agenda 48 hours before the meeting.
Corporate client sends a 50-page outside counsel guidelines document with 200+ billing rules — block billing prohibitions, task code requirements, rate caps, travel restrictions, staffing limitations — and the billing coordinator spends two days manually extracting and entering these rules into the billing system, only to discover six months later that timekeepers have been violating rules nobody told them about, resulting in $80K in rejected invoices
Where it fits in your workflow
Before Aderant Onyx
Corporate client sends 50-page OCG to new matter team → billing coordinator or pricing team manually reads and extracts rules → enters them into billing system → OR: Onyx AI extracts terms automatically. At time entry: timekeeper enters time → Onyx flags entries that violate OCG rules before they reach pre-bill.
After Aderant Onyx
Onyx validates time entries and pre-bills against OCG terms → flags non-compliant entries → billing coordinator corrects before invoice submission → eBilling submission with higher first-pass acceptance rate. Reduces write-offs and rejection cycles with corporate clients.
Integrations & hand-offs
Aderant Onyx (OCG extraction/enforcement) ↔ Aderant Expert/Sierra (billing/PM) ↔ eBilling platforms (BillBlast or third-party). Tightly integrated with Aderant ecosystem — unlikely to work standalone outside Aderant's billing stack.
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