Once in the matter management application, the invoice undergoes audit rule validations. These validations are dependent on the company's unique billing guidelines. These rules can be set by the company to reject or warn. Review your client's billing guidelines carefully to minimize the chance of an invoice being rejected.

eCounsel-specific: When submitting a LEDES file that contains multiple invoices in the file, the rejected status operates differently depending on the version of eCounsel used by the client company:

• If the client company is using a version of eCounsel prior to Version 8.2 and one of the invoices is rejected, none of the invoices in the file will be accepted into eCounsel for approval routing.

• If the client company is using eCounsel Version 8.1 with the XML Importer Changes for Better Error Handling, Logging, and Recovery patch or Version 8.2 or higher and one of the invoices is rejected, only the rejected invoice will not be accepted into eCounsel for approval routing (all other invoices in the same file that pass the audit rule validation will be accepted by eCounsel).

• If the client company is using eCounsel Version 8.3 or higher, details concerning the rejection can be accessed by clicking the right arrow next to an invoice submission.

• If the client company is using a version of eCounsel prior to Version 8.8 and an invoice fails to import into eCounsel because it could not be processed, the status will be reported as Rejected. In Version 8.8 or higher, the status will be reported as Import error in this scenario.