Global Legal Ebilling founder Jane A. Bennitt began working in the Legal Ebilling vertical in November 1994 as the first employee at TyMetrix. While there, Jane worked in every capacity imaginable, ultimately filling the role of Director of Data Services. Thereafter Jane worked as a legal technology consultant, eventually founding GLE in 2011.
Jane served as the LEDES Oversight Committee President for seventeen years, ending her tenure in 2025. Jane created the XML 2.0x, 2.1x and 2.2x formats to support global ebilling, led all revision efforts for these standards, and has contributed to numerous subcommittee efforts including the LEDES API. Her commitment to industry leadership and the legal ebilling vertical is unquestioned.
Jane has an encyclopedic understanding of the data set involved in matter management and ebilling. Her ebilling superpower is that she can look at a screen of data and see patterns and anomalies that are not apparent to others. She can trace web data issues back to the source system page to determine whether errors are user-related, from an imported data set, or simply programming that needs to be corrected.
In her consulting practice, Jane works with legal and insurance organizations implementing ebilling, usually in the most difficult of circumstances: globally situated companies with custom needs, usually having numerous, often disconnected, financial systems. Frequently Jane assists with law firm on-boarding, often serving as a main point of contact until firms new to ebilling have successfully submitted and been paid. She also provides client-side troubleshooting and Help Desk assistance until internal Project Managers are fully training to confidently respond to questions on the new system and processes.
Due to the complex nature of her law department client engagements, Jane has been researching the rules and regulations that apply to legal ebilling for years and extended that research to include the CTC tax systems that first appeared in the mid-2000’s and are currently rolling out globally to automate tax processes and ensure countries receive taxes they are due. Law firms, vendors and law departments can subscribe to this service to receive updates on these constantly changing requirements as countries first roll out these systems and continue to refine them once fully implemented.
Jane also works with law firms needing ebilling optimization assistance and vendors on feature creation.
In July 2026, Jane and GLE released GLEbill, a standalone LEDES invoice creation, import/validation, editing and validation/export tool in response to a need in the industry for a simple, low-cost, stand-alone system to better produce LEDES invoice files.
In an industry full of big personalities, Jane is often challenged over “who’s done it longer” and has always won the challenge. It is unlikely that anyone in the industry has a better understanding of how legal ebilling works, its possibilities, or its issues. Jane believes that legal ebilling is not “done,” that there are many areas where improvement is needed, and she has donated an incredible amount of time nudging the industry toward a better solution.