{ "dataset": "Swiftwater UTBMS Code Database", "version": "0.7", "generated": "2026-07-18", "attribution": "Swiftwater & Company UTBMS Code Database. Descriptions and annotations are original Swiftwater commentary. If you use this data, please link back to https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/. UTBMS and the referenced code sets are standards published by their respective bodies (for example the American Bar Association and the LEDES Oversight Committee). Any copyrights and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Swiftwater & Company provides the annotation layer for reference only.", "disclaimer": "UTBMS code sets are created and maintained by their respective standards bodies, including the American Bar Association, the LEDES Oversight Committee, the Canadian Bar Association, DRI, the Judiciaries of England and Wales, and the Yerra Global KM Expert Group, and are centrally referenced at utbms.com, hosted by the LEDES Oversight Committee. Swiftwater & Company is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any of these organizations. Code identifiers and structures on this page follow the published standards; all descriptions, usage guidance, and review commentary are original Swiftwater analysis and reflect our consulting experience, not the position of any standards body. This reference is provided for general information and is not legal advice. Standards are periodically revised: while we work to keep this reference current, always confirm you have the latest version of a code set with its originating body before implementing it in an eBilling system.", "field_labels": { "usage": "When to use this code", "watch_for": "Patterns reviewers commonly see", "review_signal": "What invoice review checks" }, "source": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/", "codes": [ { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L110", "anchor": "l110", "name": "Fact Investigation/Development", "description": "Gathering and developing the facts of the case, including witness interviews, document collection from the client, and factual chronology work.", "usage": "Use for factual development work, typically concentrated early in the matter and revived when new facts emerge.", "watch_for": "Fact investigation entries continuing at steady volume deep into a matter, which can indicate either genuinely evolving facts or early-phase work that was deferred. Also overlap with L310 and L320 once formal discovery begins, since the boundary is where firms differ most in coding practice.", "review_signal": "Expect a front-loaded curve. When L110 stays flat across the matter timeline, read narratives to understand what changed factually, and compare against the discovery codes to see whether the same work is being classified two ways.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l110" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L120", "anchor": "l120", "name": "Analysis/Strategy", "description": "Developing and refining case strategy, evaluating claims and defenses, and advising on direction.", "usage": "Use for genuine strategic analysis. Senior timekeeper concentration here is normal and appropriate.", "watch_for": "L120 functioning as a general-purpose code for time that resists classification, since almost any litigation work can be described as strategic. Firms vary widely in how much of a matter lands here, and high concentration usually reflects coding habits rather than an unusually strategic case.", "review_signal": "Benchmark L120 as a percentage of matter fees across your panel. Wide variance between firms handling similar matters is a coding-consistency conversation, and consistency is what makes your phase analytics trustworthy.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l120" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L130", "anchor": "l130", "name": "Experts/Consultants", "description": "Identifying, retaining, and working with experts and consultants outside the formal expert discovery process.", "usage": "Use for expert selection and early consulting work. Once expert discovery begins, L340 takes over for disclosure and deposition work.", "watch_for": "The L130 and L340 boundary applied inconsistently within one matter, which splits expert-related cost across two phases and understates both.", "review_signal": "Read L130 and L340 together when evaluating total expert-related fees, and pair them with E119 expense entries for the complete expert cost picture.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l130" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L140", "anchor": "l140", "name": "Document/File Management", "description": "Organizing and managing case files and documents outside formal document production.", "usage": "Use narrowly. Substantive document organization with legal judgment qualifies; routine file maintenance is overhead under most guidelines regardless of task code.", "watch_for": "Administrative work carrying attorney or paralegal rates under this code, paralleling the A110 pattern on the activity side. The task code does not change the overhead classification in guidelines.", "review_signal": "Apply the same test as A110: if the narrative describes clerical work, the guideline overhead provision governs. L140 paired with A110 on the same line is a strong indicator the entry warrants that read.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l140" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L150", "anchor": "l150", "name": "Budgeting", "description": "Preparing and revising matter budgets and staffing plans.", "usage": "Use for budget preparation where guidelines permit billing it. Many clients designate budget preparation as non-billable, treating it as part of the engagement relationship.", "watch_for": "Billable budgeting time where your guidelines designate it non-billable, and repeated budget revision entries that track the budget cycle rather than case developments.", "review_signal": "The guideline designation resolves most questions here. Where budgeting is billable, volume should correlate with genuine scope changes in the matter.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l150" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L160", "anchor": "l160", "name": "Settlement/Non-Binding ADR", "description": "Settlement analysis, negotiation, mediation, and other non-binding resolution efforts.", "usage": "Use for resolution-directed work at any point in the matter. Spikes around mediation sessions and serious negotiation windows are the expected shape.", "watch_for": "Sustained L160 volume with no corresponding settlement activity visible to the client, which is usually a coding drift question rather than a work question.", "review_signal": "L160 should correlate with events the legal department knows about. It is also one of the most decision-useful codes you have: matters with early L160 concentration and late resolution are where resolution strategy reviews pay for themselves.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l160" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L190", "anchor": "l190", "name": "Other Case Assessment, Development and Administration", "description": "Phase work that fits no more specific L100-series code.", "usage": "Minimal expected usage given how broad the named codes in this phase already are.", "watch_for": "L190 absorbing routine case administration at meaningful volume, which removes that work from any analyzable category.", "review_signal": "Track catch-all usage by firm across all phases as a single coding-hygiene metric. The L190, L250, L390, and L440 family tells one story about how carefully a firm codes.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l190" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L210", "anchor": "l210", "name": "Pleadings", "description": "Drafting and responding to complaints, answers, counterclaims, and amendments.", "usage": "Use for pleadings work. Volume concentrates early and should track the docket.", "watch_for": "Pleadings hours out of proportion to the complexity of the filing, particularly on answer-and-affirmative-defenses work that follows established firm patterns.", "review_signal": "The docket is the reference. Hours per pleading can be benchmarked across matters, and repeat matter types give you internal baselines quickly.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l210" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L220", "anchor": "l220", "name": "Preliminary Injunctions/Provisional Remedies", "description": "Work on temporary restraining orders, preliminary injunctions, attachments, and similar emergency or provisional relief.", "usage": "Use for provisional remedy work. Genuinely intensive when it happens, and time-compressed by nature.", "watch_for": "Little in the coding itself. The intensity is real; the review question is usually staffing breadth during the emergency window.", "review_signal": "Post-event review works better than line-item review here. Compare team size and hours against the scope of the emergency once it resolves, and feed the result into staffing expectations for the next one.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l220" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L230", "anchor": "l230", "name": "Court Mandated Conferences", "description": "Preparation for and attendance at scheduling conferences, status conferences, and other court-required appearances.", "usage": "Use for court-mandated conference work, including required meet-and-confer sessions tied to those conferences.", "watch_for": "Preparation time that exceeds the conference itself by a wide multiple for routine status appearances, and multiple attendees at conferences that call for one.", "review_signal": "Conference length is verifiable from the docket and minute entries, which anchors both the attendance time and a reasonableness read on preparation.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l230" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L240", "anchor": "l240", "name": "Dispositive Motions", "description": "Motions to dismiss, summary judgment motions, and other case-dispositive motion work.", "usage": "Use for dispositive motion practice. Often the largest single work product investment in the pre-trial life of a case.", "watch_for": "Summary judgment efforts that begin without a strategy conversation with the client, given the investment involved, and research or drafting volume spread across many timekeepers on a single brief.", "review_signal": "L240 is a budgeting checkpoint more than a line-item review target. A phase-level estimate before briefing starts turns the eventual invoice review into a variance discussion instead of a surprise.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l240" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L250", "anchor": "l250", "name": "Other Written Motions and Submissions", "description": "Non-dispositive motion practice not covered elsewhere, such as motions to compel filed outside discovery, motions in limine filed pre-trial, and procedural motions.", "usage": "Use for miscellaneous motion work in the pre-trial phase.", "watch_for": "This code absorbing motion work that belongs in more specific categories, particularly discovery motions that belong under L350, which shifts cost between phases.", "review_signal": "Read narratives against the docket. Motion practice always leaves a paper trail, so classification questions resolve quickly.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l250" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L260", "anchor": "l260", "name": "Class Action Certification and Notice", "description": "Certification briefing, class definition work, and notice administration in class action matters.", "usage": "Use in class actions for certification and notice work. Irrelevant to most portfolios, central to some.", "watch_for": "Notice administration costs flowing through fees rather than through third-party administrators at cost, where an administrator is the contemplated structure.", "review_signal": "For departments with class action exposure, L260 phase budgeting and administrator cost separation are the two structural reviews that matter.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l260" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L310", "anchor": "l310", "name": "Written Discovery", "description": "Drafting and responding to interrogatories, requests for production, and requests for admission.", "usage": "Use for written discovery work in both directions, propounding and responding.", "watch_for": "Response drafting hours on discovery sets that follow standard patterns for the matter type, and written discovery entries appearing after the discovery cutoff on the scheduling order.", "review_signal": "The scheduling order gives discovery codes a time boundary that automated rules can enforce. Within the window, benchmark hours per discovery set against comparable matters.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l310" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L320", "anchor": "l320", "name": "Document Production", "description": "Collection, review, and production of documents, including privilege review.", "usage": "Use for document review and production work. On document-heavy matters this becomes the single largest fee category in the case.", "watch_for": "Attorney-rate review of documents suited to staff attorney, contract reviewer, or technology-assisted workflows; review rates per document that vary widely across firms; and first-level review layered under multiple rounds of re-review. Read alongside E118, since the fee and vendor sides of document review are one economic decision.", "review_signal": "This is where review economics live. Track documents-per-hour and cost-per-document where your eBilling and eDiscovery data allow it, and treat the review staffing model as a negotiable engagement term, because it is.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l320" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L330", "anchor": "l330", "name": "Depositions", "description": "Preparing for, taking, and defending depositions.", "usage": "Use for deposition work. Preparation, attendance, and follow-up all belong here, paired with the appropriate activity codes.", "watch_for": "Preparation multiples well above the deposition length for routine witnesses, and second-chair attendance at depositions that call for one examiner.", "review_signal": "Deposition length is documented by the transcript, which anchors both attendance and a preparation-ratio review. Prep-to-deposition ratios by witness type become a useful internal benchmark quickly.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l330" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L340", "anchor": "l340", "name": "Expert Discovery", "description": "Expert disclosures, expert reports, and expert depositions.", "usage": "Use once the matter enters formal expert discovery. Earlier expert selection and consulting belongs under L130.", "watch_for": "Report drafting time on the firm's side that parallels substantial drafting billed by the expert, which raises the question of who is writing the report.", "review_signal": "Read L340 with L130 and E119 for the full expert cost picture. The fee-side drafting volume against the expert's own invoice tells you how the work was actually divided.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l340" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L350", "anchor": "l350", "name": "Discovery Motions", "description": "Motions to compel, protective order motions, and other discovery dispute work.", "usage": "Use for discovery motion practice, including the meet-and-confer work the motions require.", "watch_for": "Sustained discovery motion volume, which is expensive in itself and usually signals a case-management dynamic worth a strategic conversation beyond the invoice.", "review_signal": "L350 concentration is decision-useful data. Matters where discovery disputes consume a material share of fees are candidates for a different resolution posture, and the code makes that visible early.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l350" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L360", "anchor": "l360", "name": "Onsite Inspections", "description": "Inspections of premises, property, equipment, or other physical evidence conducted as part of discovery.", "usage": "Use for site and physical inspections in the discovery phase, including preparation for and attendance at the inspection.", "watch_for": "Multiple timekeepers attending inspections that require one, and travel time folded into inspection entries, which parallels the A109 travel pattern.", "review_signal": "Inspections are scheduled events with defined durations, so attendance and preparation review both anchor to the event itself.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l360" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L390", "anchor": "l390", "name": "Other Discovery", "description": "Discovery work that fits no more specific L300-series code, such as third-party discovery logistics.", "usage": "Limited expected usage given the coverage of the named discovery codes.", "watch_for": "Material volume here, which most often turns out to be work that belongs under L310 through L350 and is coded quickly rather than precisely.", "review_signal": "Fold into the catch-all hygiene metric alongside L190, L250, and L440, tracked by firm.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l390" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L410", "anchor": "l410", "name": "Fact Witnesses", "description": "Preparing fact witnesses for trial testimony.", "usage": "Use for trial-stage fact witness preparation.", "watch_for": "Preparation sessions repeated across trial continuances, which is a real cost of calendar movement worth attributing to the continuance rather than the witness work.", "review_signal": "Witness preparation hours per witness is a benchmarkable figure. Continuance-driven repetition should be visible in the timeline and factored into how you evaluate the total.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l410" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L420", "anchor": "l420", "name": "Expert Witnesses", "description": "Preparing expert witnesses for trial testimony.", "usage": "Use for trial-stage expert preparation, distinct from expert discovery work under L340.", "watch_for": "The same dual-billing dynamic as A108 and E119: firm preparation time alongside expert-invoiced preparation time for the same sessions.", "review_signal": "Read against the expert's invoice for the trial period. The combined figure is the real cost of putting the expert on the stand.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l420" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L430", "anchor": "l430", "name": "Written Motions and Submissions", "description": "Trial-stage written motion practice, including motions in limine, trial briefs, and proposed findings.", "usage": "Use for trial-phase written work.", "watch_for": "Motion in limine volume growing well beyond the evidentiary issues that matter, since these motions multiply easily and each carries drafting, response, and argument cost.", "review_signal": "Count and scope of in limine motions against the issues genuinely in dispute. A pre-trial conversation about which motions to bring is the control point; the invoice just reports the outcome.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l430" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L440", "anchor": "l440", "name": "Other Trial Preparation and Support", "description": "Trial preparation not covered by the witness and motion codes, including trial logistics, exhibit preparation, and war room support.", "usage": "Use for general trial preparation. Legitimately broad in the final weeks before trial.", "watch_for": "Support staff and logistics time at professional rates, and L440 absorbing work with more specific homes during the pre-trial surge.", "review_signal": "In the trial window, phase-level budget tracking outperforms line-item review. Set the trial-phase budget with staffing named in advance, then manage variance.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l440" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L450", "anchor": "l450", "name": "Trial and Hearing Attendance", "description": "Attendance at trial and substantive hearings.", "usage": "Use for time in the courtroom during trial and hearings, paired with A109 on the activity side.", "watch_for": "Courtroom attendance by team members without trial-day roles, which guidelines often address through staffing plans or pre-approval for attendance beyond the trial team.", "review_signal": "Trial days are documented, so attendance review is factual: who was there, for how long, against the staffing plan agreed before trial.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l450" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L460", "anchor": "l460", "name": "Post-Trial Motions and Submissions", "description": "Post-verdict motion practice, including motions for judgment, new trial motions, and fee petitions.", "usage": "Use for post-trial work at the trial court level. Appellate work moves to the L500 series.", "watch_for": "The L460 and L510 boundary once notices of appeal are filed, which affects whether your appeal-phase economics are readable.", "review_signal": "The notice of appeal is a clean dividing line on the docket. Coding on either side of it should follow the docket, and usually does once raised.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l460" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L470", "anchor": "l470", "name": "Enforcement", "description": "Post-judgment enforcement work, including collection efforts, judgment liens, and enforcement proceedings.", "usage": "Use for enforcing a judgment after entry, distinct from post-trial motion practice under L460.", "watch_for": "Enforcement cost accumulating past the point the recoverable amount supports it, which is an economics question the code makes visible.", "review_signal": "Track enforcement fees against amounts actually collected. The ratio is the single most decision-useful number in this code.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l470" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L510", "anchor": "l510", "name": "Appellate Motions and Submissions", "description": "Appellate motion practice, procedural filings, and record designation.", "usage": "Use for appellate work other than merits briefing and argument.", "watch_for": "Record preparation and procedural work volume, which varies with record size but follows predictable patterns per court.", "review_signal": "Procedural appellate work benchmarks well across appeals in the same court system. Two or three data points give you a usable baseline.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l510" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L520", "anchor": "l520", "name": "Appellate Briefs", "description": "Researching and drafting merits briefs on appeal.", "usage": "Use for merits briefing, the center of gravity of any appeal.", "watch_for": "Brief-drafting hours distributed across many timekeepers, since appellate writing concentrates naturally in one or two hands, and total hours per brief against the issues presented.", "review_signal": "Hours per brief is one of the most benchmarkable figures in litigation billing. Fixed-fee and capped arrangements also work unusually well for appellate briefing precisely because the work product is well-defined.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l520" }, { "set": "Litigation", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "L530", "anchor": "l530", "name": "Oral Argument", "description": "Preparing for and presenting oral argument.", "usage": "Use for argument preparation and presentation, including moot sessions.", "watch_for": "Moot court sessions with large internal audiences all billing attendance, which is the A105 multi-attendee pattern in appellate form.", "review_signal": "Argument length is public and preparation practices are well understood. A staffing conversation before the argument cycle sets expectations better than adjustments after it.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/litigation/#l530" }, { "set": "Activity", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "A101", "anchor": "a101", "name": "Plan and prepare for", "description": "Time spent getting ready for a defined upcoming event or work product, such as preparing for a deposition, hearing, or negotiation session.", "usage": "Use when the preparation ties to a specific, identifiable event. The narrative should name the event being prepared for.", "watch_for": "Entries where the narrative describes the activity but not the event, such as 'prepare for hearing' without further detail. Preparation hours also tend to accumulate across multiple timekeepers in the days before major events, so aggregate prep time can grow faster than the event itself would suggest.", "review_signal": "Review A101 entries for a named event or deliverable in the narrative, and compare total preparation hours across timekeepers to the scope and length of the event. Guidelines often set expectations here, which gives the review a factual anchor.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/activity/#a101" }, { "set": "Activity", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "A102", "anchor": "a102", "name": "Research", "description": "Legal research on statutes, case law, regulations, or other authority relevant to the matter.", "usage": "Use for genuine legal research. The narrative should identify the issue researched, not just the activity.", "watch_for": "Research billed at senior timekeeper rates when the task is typically staffed at the associate level, research on the same legal question appearing across multiple matters for the same client, and research entries combined with other activities in a single block.", "review_signal": "Check timekeeper level against the task, since most guidelines address staffing expectations for research. Across a portfolio, portfolio-level analytics can surface repeated research on identical issues, which is a useful conversation to have at a firm review.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/activity/#a102" }, { "set": "Activity", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "A103", "anchor": "a103", "name": "Draft/revise", "description": "Creating or revising documents, from pleadings and contracts to correspondence and memoranda.", "usage": "Use for original drafting and substantive revision. This is legitimately the highest-volume activity code on most invoices.", "watch_for": "Drafting time on documents that follow established firm templates, such as standard complaints or routine agreements, where the hours reflect original drafting rather than adaptation. Also sequential revision entries on the same document by several timekeepers.", "review_signal": "For document types the firm produces routinely, benchmark drafting hours against comparable prior matters. Multiple A103 entries on one document by different timekeepers is worth a narrative-level read to understand how the work was staffed.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/activity/#a103" }, { "set": "Activity", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "A104", "anchor": "a104", "name": "Review/analyze", "description": "Reading and analyzing documents, filings, correspondence, or other material in the matter.", "usage": "Use for substantive review that produces analysis or informs next steps. Narratives should state what was reviewed and why.", "watch_for": "General entries such as 'review file' or 'review correspondence' without a stated purpose, review of a timekeeper's own prior work, and layered review where material is examined by several timekeepers in sequence.", "review_signal": "A104 concentration is one of the most informative metrics in spend analytics. Track it as a percentage of total fees by firm and compare against your panel median; a firm that runs consistently higher has a staffing model worth understanding, and the data makes that a fact-based discussion.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/activity/#a104" }, { "set": "Activity", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "A105", "anchor": "a105", "name": "Communicate (in firm)", "description": "Internal conferences, emails, and discussions among timekeepers at the billing firm.", "usage": "Use for internal coordination that genuinely advances the matter. Most billing guidelines restrict or cap this code, so usage expectations are usually documented.", "watch_for": "The same internal conference appearing on multiple timekeepers' entries with matching dates and durations. Guidelines commonly provide for one biller per internal conference, so multi-attendee entries are a frequent adjustment area. Internal discussion time can also reflect the development of junior timekeepers, which guidelines typically treat as a firm investment.", "review_signal": "Match A105 entries across timekeepers by date and duration. This is one of the most reliable automated rules in eBilling because the pattern is objective and the guideline language is usually explicit.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/activity/#a105" }, { "set": "Activity", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "A106", "anchor": "a106", "name": "Communicate (with client)", "description": "Calls, emails, and meetings with the client, including status reporting.", "usage": "Use for substantive client communication. Many guidelines make routine status updates non-billable, so the narrative matters.", "watch_for": "High counts of minimum-increment entries, such as 0.1 and 0.2 hour line items for brief emails, spread across multiple timekeepers. Individually small, these entries compound meaningfully over the life of a matter. Status reports coded here also warrant a guideline check, since many clients designate them non-billable.", "review_signal": "Sort A106 by entry duration and review the distribution at the minimum increments. The pattern is quantifiable, which keeps the resulting conversation with the firm grounded in data rather than judgment.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/activity/#a106" }, { "set": "Activity", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "A107", "anchor": "a107", "name": "Communicate (other outside counsel)", "description": "Communication with other law firms on the matter, such as co-counsel, local counsel, or opposing counsel.", "usage": "Use for coordination with other firms involved in the matter. Legitimate and often necessary in multi-firm litigation.", "watch_for": "In multi-firm matters, the same call or conference can appear on both firms' invoices, which means the coordination is paid on both sides. Coordination volume also tends to scale with the number of firms involved, so it deserves attention on heavily staffed matters.", "review_signal": "Where multiple panel firms bill the same matter, reconcile A107 entries across invoices. Paired entries for the same interaction are addressable under most guidelines, and cross-invoice analytics make them straightforward to identify.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/activity/#a107" }, { "set": "Activity", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "A108", "anchor": "a108", "name": "Communicate (other external)", "description": "Communication with external parties other than the client and other counsel, such as retained experts, consultants, and witnesses.", "usage": "Use for substantive coordination with experts and consultants. Expect it to concentrate around expert discovery and report deadlines.", "watch_for": "Extended coordination time with an expert who is separately invoicing for the same interactions, which results in both sides of one conversation appearing in your total matter cost.", "review_signal": "Cross-reference A108 volume against the expert's own invoices when both flow through your eBilling system. The comparison shows the full cost of the expert relationship, which matter budgeting benefits from either way.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/activity/#a108" }, { "set": "Activity", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "A109", "anchor": "a109", "name": "Appear for/attend", "description": "Attendance at hearings, depositions, trials, mediations, and other proceedings or events.", "usage": "Use for actual attendance at proceedings and events. Duration should track the event itself.", "watch_for": "Travel time included within appearance entries, which matters because most guidelines compensate travel at a reduced rate or not at all. Also attendance by multiple timekeepers at proceedings where guidelines contemplate one, typically requiring advance approval for additional attendees.", "review_signal": "Compare billed A109 duration to the proceeding length, which is often verifiable from transcripts or dockets, and check multi-timekeeper attendance against your pre-approval requirements. Both checks are factual and rarely contested when the data is presented.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/activity/#a109" }, { "set": "Activity", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "A110", "anchor": "a110", "name": "Manage data/files", "description": "Organizing, indexing, and maintaining matter files and data.", "usage": "Use sparingly. Data management requiring legal judgment, such as organizing a production set, can qualify. Routine file maintenance is generally treated as firm overhead.", "watch_for": "Administrative tasks such as file organization, calendaring, and document assembly appearing at timekeeper rates. Nearly all billing guidelines classify this work as overhead regardless of who performs it, so entries here often reflect a coding choice rather than a billing entitlement.", "review_signal": "A110 at attorney rates is typically adjusted under standard guideline language. At paralegal rates, the narrative determines the outcome: work that is clerical in nature falls under overhead provisions in most guidelines.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/activity/#a110" }, { "set": "Activity", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "A111", "anchor": "a111", "name": "Other", "description": "Activities that genuinely fit no other code.", "usage": "Near-zero expected usage on a carefully coded invoice. Almost everything a timekeeper does on a matter fits one of the ten codes above.", "watch_for": "Elevated A111 usage, which usually indicates coding applied quickly rather than carefully. Coding quality and narrative quality tend to move together, so this code doubles as a hygiene indicator.", "review_signal": "Track A111 as a percentage of line items by firm. Beyond trace usage, it is worth raising at a firm review, because inconsistent coding limits what your spend analytics can tell you across the whole portfolio.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/activity/#a111" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E101", "anchor": "e101", "name": "Copying", "description": "In-office photocopying and printing charges, typically billed per page.", "usage": "Use for internal reproduction costs where guidelines permit them. Many clients treat routine copying as overhead and allow charges only for large, matter-driven reproduction.", "watch_for": "Per-page rates above the cap stated in guidelines, and volume that reflects internal convenience copies rather than required productions. Per-page pricing predates modern document workflows, so charges here often invite the question of whether printing was necessary at all.", "review_signal": "Validate the per-page rate against your guideline cap and the volume against matter activity. High E101 totals in a period with no production or filing event are worth a narrative-level look.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e101" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E102", "anchor": "e102", "name": "Outside printing", "description": "Reproduction and printing performed by external vendors, such as trial binders or large production sets.", "usage": "Use for third-party printing engaged for the matter. Guidelines typically require pass-through at actual vendor cost.", "watch_for": "Amounts that exceed the underlying vendor invoice, and charges above your documentation threshold submitted without receipts.", "review_signal": "Request vendor receipts above the guideline threshold and reconcile the billed amount to them. This is a pure at-cost category, so the check is arithmetic.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e102" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E103", "anchor": "e103", "name": "Word processing", "description": "Document production support performed by word processing staff.", "usage": "Rarely billable under modern guidelines. Nearly all clients classify word processing as firm overhead built into hourly rates.", "watch_for": "Any usage at all, since most guidelines addressed this category explicitly years ago. Charges here usually reflect firm billing system defaults rather than a current entitlement.", "review_signal": "Check your guideline language; if word processing is designated overhead, entries under E103 are adjustable on that basis alone.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e103" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E104", "anchor": "e104", "name": "Facsimile", "description": "Fax transmission charges.", "usage": "Legacy category. Most guidelines now disallow fax charges entirely.", "watch_for": "Continued per-page fax charges, which persist in some firm billing systems long after the underlying cost disappeared.", "review_signal": "If your guidelines disallow the category, the review is a simple rule. If they are silent, this is an easy update to make at the next guideline refresh.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e104" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E105", "anchor": "e105", "name": "Telephone", "description": "Telephone and conferencing charges.", "usage": "Largely legacy. Routine telephone costs are overhead under most guidelines; some clients still permit third-party conferencing or interpretation services at cost.", "watch_for": "Per-minute long distance charges and conference line fees in an era of flat-rate communications, which typically reflect legacy billing configurations.", "review_signal": "Distinguish third-party service invoices, which may be billable at cost, from internal telephone allocations, which guidelines generally classify as overhead.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e105" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E106", "anchor": "e106", "name": "Online research", "description": "Charges for computerized legal research services such as Westlaw or Lexis.", "usage": "Use where guidelines permit research charges, typically at the firm's actual cost. This is one of the most guideline-sensitive expense categories.", "watch_for": "Charges based on retail per-search rates when the firm pays a flat subscription, which produces billed amounts unrelated to actual incremental cost. Research charges also sometimes appear alongside A102 fee entries for the same work, so both dimensions of the research cost deserve a joint look.", "review_signal": "Confirm what your guidelines say about actual cost versus standard rates, and track E106 as a ratio to research fees by firm. The variance across a panel is usually wide, and the data supports a productive rate conversation.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e106" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E107", "anchor": "e107", "name": "Delivery services/messengers", "description": "Courier, messenger, and overnight delivery charges.", "usage": "Use for third-party delivery engaged for the matter, passed through at cost.", "watch_for": "Overnight or courier delivery for materials that had no filing deadline, and recurring delivery charges between offices of the same firm.", "review_signal": "Match delivery charges to matter events with real deadlines. At-cost verification applies above your receipt threshold.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e107" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E108", "anchor": "e108", "name": "Postage", "description": "Ordinary mailing costs.", "usage": "Routine postage is overhead under most guidelines. Bulk mailing tied to a matter event, such as class notice, is the main billable exception.", "watch_for": "Small recurring postage entries that accumulate across matters, which guidelines typically fold into overhead.", "review_signal": "Apply the guideline classification. Bulk matter-driven mailings should come with documentation like any other vendor cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e108" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E109", "anchor": "e109", "name": "Local travel", "description": "Mileage, parking, taxis, and similar costs for travel within the timekeeper's home market.", "usage": "Use for matter-required local travel where guidelines permit it, at documented rates.", "watch_for": "Mileage billed above the standard reimbursement rate referenced in guidelines, and commuting-pattern charges such as regular travel between a timekeeper's home and office.", "review_signal": "Validate mileage rates against the published standard your guidelines reference and confirm the travel connects to a matter event. Receipts govern parking and taxi charges above the threshold.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e109" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E110", "anchor": "e110", "name": "Out-of-town travel", "description": "Airfare, lodging, ground transport, and related costs for travel outside the home market.", "usage": "Use for matter-required travel, typically subject to pre-approval and class-of-travel rules in guidelines.", "watch_for": "Premium cabin airfare where guidelines specify coach, lodging above stated caps, bookings made close to travel dates at correspondingly higher fares, and travel that was not pre-approved where guidelines require it.", "review_signal": "Check pre-approval records first, then validate class of travel and nightly rates against guideline caps. Receipts are standard for this category, which makes each element verifiable.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e110" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E111", "anchor": "e111", "name": "Meals", "description": "Meal costs incurred during matter-related travel or approved working sessions.", "usage": "Use within the per-person caps and conditions stated in guidelines. Many clients limit meals to overnight travel contexts.", "watch_for": "Per-person amounts above guideline caps, alcohol included where guidelines exclude it, and local working meals in categories the guidelines do not cover.", "review_signal": "Itemized receipts against the cap. The category is small individually and is best handled by automated rules rather than manual attention.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e111" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E112", "anchor": "e112", "name": "Court fees", "description": "Filing fees and other charges paid to courts.", "usage": "Use for fees paid directly to courts, passed through at cost. Among the least contested expense categories.", "watch_for": "Little. The main item is confirming amounts match the court's published fee schedule.", "review_signal": "Straightforward at-cost verification. Publicly available fee schedules make this a fast check when a number looks unusual.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e112" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E113", "anchor": "e113", "name": "Subpoena fees", "description": "Costs of issuing and serving subpoenas, including process server charges.", "usage": "Use for service costs passed through at actual cost.", "watch_for": "Rush service charges on subpoenas without deadline pressure, and service attempts billed multiple times without explanation in the narrative.", "review_signal": "Vendor receipts above the threshold, and a quick narrative check when multiple service attempts appear.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e113" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E114", "anchor": "e114", "name": "Witness fees", "description": "Statutory attendance fees and travel allowances paid to witnesses.", "usage": "Use for witness payments at the statutory rates that apply in the jurisdiction.", "watch_for": "Amounts above statutory rates, which occasionally reflect other witness-related costs coded here for convenience.", "review_signal": "Statutory rates are published, so validation is direct. Amounts beyond the statute belong in their proper category with documentation.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e114" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E115", "anchor": "e115", "name": "Deposition transcripts", "description": "Court reporter and transcript costs for depositions.", "usage": "Use for transcript costs passed through at cost. Expedite and rough-draft services typically require a reason or approval.", "watch_for": "Expedited delivery premiums on transcripts with no imminent deadline, original-plus-copy pricing where a copy would serve, and video and stenographic services stacked on the same deposition without stated need.", "review_signal": "Compare service level billed to the case calendar. Expedite premiums are the recurring adjustment area, and the invoice itself documents the service level ordered.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e115" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E116", "anchor": "e116", "name": "Trial transcripts", "description": "Court reporter and transcript costs during trial.", "usage": "Use for trial transcript costs at actual cost. Daily and realtime services are usually a strategic choice worth confirming in advance.", "watch_for": "Daily or realtime transcription ordered without prior discussion, since the service carries a significant premium over standard delivery.", "review_signal": "Confirm the service level was agreed before trial. When it was, this category reviews cleanly at cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e116" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E117", "anchor": "e117", "name": "Trial exhibits", "description": "Preparation and production of exhibits, demonstratives, and trial graphics.", "usage": "Use for exhibit and demonstrative costs, typically from third-party vendors at cost, with larger engagements pre-approved.", "watch_for": "Vendor charges exceeding the underlying invoice, and substantial graphics engagements that did not go through pre-approval where guidelines require it.", "review_signal": "Vendor receipts and pre-approval records. For large demonstrative budgets, an estimate on file makes the final invoice review factual.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e117" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E118", "anchor": "e118", "name": "Litigation support vendors", "description": "eDiscovery, data hosting, document review platforms, and similar third-party litigation support costs.", "usage": "Use for third-party litigation support at actual cost. This is often the largest expense category on a litigation matter, which makes it the highest-value review target in the E series.", "watch_for": "Charges above the vendor's invoice to the firm, monthly hosting fees that continue after a matter goes quiet, per-gigabyte pricing that no longer reflects current market rates, and large engagements placed without the competitive process guidelines contemplate.", "review_signal": "Reconcile to vendor invoices, track recurring hosting against matter status, and benchmark unit pricing across your portfolio. Where volumes justify it, direct client contracting with the vendor changes the economics entirely, and the E118 data tells you when volumes justify it.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e118" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E119", "anchor": "e119", "name": "Experts", "description": "Fees of retained experts and consultants passed through the firm's invoice.", "usage": "Use when expert costs flow through the firm rather than billing the client directly. Pass-through at actual cost is the near-universal guideline standard.", "watch_for": "Amounts above the expert's own invoice, and expert engagements above guideline thresholds that were not pre-approved. The pass-through structure also delays your visibility into expert spend relative to direct billing.", "review_signal": "Reconcile to the expert's invoice and check pre-approval. For significant engagements, moving experts to direct billing improves both cost visibility and accrual accuracy.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e119" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E120", "anchor": "e120", "name": "Private investigators", "description": "Costs of investigative services.", "usage": "Use for investigator costs at actual cost, with pre-approval where guidelines require it, which they typically do.", "watch_for": "Investigative engagements appearing on an invoice before any approval conversation happened.", "review_signal": "Pre-approval records and vendor receipts. The category is infrequent, which makes exceptions easy to spot.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e120" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E121", "anchor": "e121", "name": "Arbitrators/mediators", "description": "Fees paid to arbitrators, mediators, and ADR administrators.", "usage": "Use for neutral and forum fees at actual cost. These are commonly split between parties under the applicable rules or agreement.", "watch_for": "The full neutral fee billed where the engagement letter or forum rules provide for a split, and administrative fees duplicated across invoicing periods.", "review_signal": "Check the fee split against the ADR agreement or forum rules, then verify at cost. Both documents are on file, so the review is factual.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e121" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E122", "anchor": "e122", "name": "Local counsel", "description": "Fees of local counsel passed through the primary firm's invoice.", "usage": "Use when local counsel bills through the lead firm. Many clients prefer local counsel to bill directly, which brings that spend into normal fee review.", "watch_for": "Amounts above local counsel's underlying invoice, and fee detail arriving as a single expense line, which places timekeeper-level review out of reach of your normal eBilling rules.", "review_signal": "Reconcile to local counsel's invoice, and where volume warrants, move the relationship to direct billing so the fees run through task and activity code review like every other firm.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e122" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E123", "anchor": "e123", "name": "Other professionals", "description": "Fees of other third-party professionals, such as translators, accountants, or jury consultants.", "usage": "Use for professional services that fit no more specific code, at actual cost with documentation.", "watch_for": "Substantial professional engagements arriving under this generic code where a more specific category or a pre-approval process would normally apply.", "review_signal": "Documentation above the threshold and a narrative sufficient to identify the professional and the purpose. Volume here is usually low, so exceptions stand out.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e123" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "ABA (1997)", "code": "E124", "anchor": "e124", "name": "Other", "description": "Expenses that genuinely fit no other code.", "usage": "Minimal expected usage. A well-coded invoice places nearly every expense in one of the categories above.", "watch_for": "Recurring or material charges under the catch-all code, which usually indicates either a coding practice worth correcting or a cost category your guidelines have not yet addressed.", "review_signal": "Track E124 as a share of expense lines by firm, and read narratives on anything material. Recurring items surfacing here are candidates for explicit treatment at your next guideline update.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e124" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "LOC IP extension", "code": "E125", "anchor": "e125", "name": "Translation", "description": "Translation costs, including preparation of translated documentation for foreign filings.", "usage": "Use for translation costs on international IP and cross-border matters, passed through at cost.", "watch_for": "Translation charges above the underlying vendor invoice, and repeated translation of boilerplate content across related filings.", "review_signal": "Vendor receipts and per-word or per-page rate benchmarking across the portfolio, since translation is a commodity service with a wide price range.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e125" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "LOC IP extension", "code": "E126", "anchor": "e126", "name": "Drawings", "description": "Charges for drawings prepared by external draftsmen, principally patent drawings.", "usage": "Use for third-party drafting costs at actual cost.", "watch_for": "Per-figure rates varying widely across firms using different draftsman vendors.", "review_signal": "Per-figure unit cost across the portfolio, one of the cleanest unit benchmarks in IP spend.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e126" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "LOC IP extension", "code": "E127", "anchor": "e127", "name": "Patent and Trademark Records", "description": "Costs of obtaining patent copies, priority documents, file histories, and other IP records from third-party vendors.", "usage": "Use for record retrieval costs at actual cost.", "watch_for": "Retrieval charges for records available at low or no cost from patent office electronic systems.", "review_signal": "Whether the record required a paid vendor at all, given how much is now freely retrievable from office databases.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e127" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "LOC IP extension", "code": "E128", "anchor": "e128", "name": "Searching and Monitoring", "description": "Third-party search and watch service costs for IP matters.", "usage": "Use for vendor search and monitoring services at actual cost, paired with the search-related task codes on the fee side.", "watch_for": "Search vendor charges alongside substantial attorney search time for the same clearance, which is the fee-and-expense version of the dual-billing pattern.", "review_signal": "Read with TR220/TR230 or the patent investigation codes for the full cost per clearance, and benchmark per-search vendor pricing.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e128" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "LOC IP extension", "code": "E129", "anchor": "e129", "name": "Official Fees (excluding maintenance, renewal, and late fees)", "description": "Government and quasi-governmental fees on pending applications, including patent and trademark office fees, WIPO fees, notary and consular charges.", "usage": "Use for official fees passed through at cost. Fee schedules are published by every office.", "watch_for": "Official fees billed above the published schedule amount, or entity-status discounts (small or micro entity) not applied where the client qualifies.", "review_signal": "Validate against the office fee schedule and confirm the correct entity status was claimed, both of which are objective checks.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e129" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "LOC IP extension", "code": "E130", "anchor": "e130", "name": "Post-Issuance Patent Maintenance and Trademark Renewal Fees", "description": "Official fees paid to maintain issued patents and renew trademark registrations.", "usage": "Use for maintenance and renewal fees at cost. The largest recurring official-fee category in an IP portfolio.", "watch_for": "Annuity service margins layered on official fees where the client has not chosen the service model deliberately, and fees paid on assets the portfolio review would have abandoned.", "review_signal": "Reconcile against the official schedule and, at portfolio scale, evaluate direct annuity service contracting. Every fee paid is also a keep-or-abandon decision that deserved to be made consciously.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e130" }, { "set": "Expense", "standard": "LOC IP extension", "code": "E131", "anchor": "e131", "name": "Late Fees", "description": "Official surcharges to enter a document past a deadline, including extension-of-time fees.", "usage": "Legitimate when a deliberate strategy choice, such as purchased extensions used for client decision time.", "watch_for": "Recurring late fees across a portfolio, which usually indicate docketing process issues rather than strategy, and their causes are worth a firm-level conversation.", "review_signal": "Track late-fee frequency by firm as a process-quality metric. The fee is small; the signal about docketing discipline is not.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/expense/#e131" }, { "set": "Counseling", "standard": "ABA", "code": "C100", "anchor": "c100", "name": "Fact Gathering", "description": "Collecting the facts needed to render advice, including client interviews and document review in an advisory context.", "usage": "Use for factual development on counseling matters.", "watch_for": "Extensive fact gathering on questions the client framed narrowly, which is often a scoping conversation rather than a billing question.", "review_signal": "Compare fact-gathering volume to the scope of the question asked. Advisory matters benefit from a stated scope at intake, and C100 volume tells you when scope moved.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/counseling/#c100" }, { "set": "Counseling", "standard": "ABA", "code": "C200", "anchor": "c200", "name": "Researching Law", "description": "Legal research supporting the advice, from statutory review to survey work across jurisdictions.", "usage": "Use for research on counseling matters. Multi-jurisdiction surveys legitimately concentrate hours here.", "watch_for": "Research on questions the firm has answered for you before, and senior-rate research where the staffing model contemplates associates, mirroring the A102 patterns.", "review_signal": "Portfolio-level research analytics apply here just as in litigation. Firms that maintain client-specific knowledge should show declining research cost on repeat question types, and the data shows whether they do.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/counseling/#c200" }, { "set": "Counseling", "standard": "ABA", "code": "C300", "anchor": "c300", "name": "Analysis and Advice", "description": "Analyzing the law against the facts and formulating the advice, including drafting opinions and memoranda.", "usage": "Use for the analytical core of the engagement. Expect senior timekeeper concentration; that is what advisory work is.", "watch_for": "Long-form memoranda where the client asked for an answer, since work product format drives cost and is a client choice.", "review_signal": "Format expectations set at intake, such as email advice versus formal memorandum, do more to manage C300 cost than any invoice review. The code data shows you which firms default to which format.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/counseling/#c300" }, { "set": "Counseling", "standard": "ABA", "code": "C400", "anchor": "c400", "name": "Third Party Communication", "description": "Communicating with regulators, opposing parties, or other third parties as part of the counseling engagement.", "usage": "Use for external communication on advisory matters, such as regulator correspondence or agency meetings.", "watch_for": "Multiple attendees billing the same regulator meeting, the advisory-side version of the A105 and A109 patterns.", "review_signal": "Match multi-timekeeper attendance against your staffing expectations for external meetings. Regulator interactions are documented events, so attendance review is factual.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/counseling/#c400" }, { "set": "Project", "standard": "ABA", "code": "P100", "anchor": "p100", "name": "Project Administration", "description": "Managing the transaction: coordination, checklists, working group communication, and process management.", "usage": "Use for deal management work that runs the life of the transaction.", "watch_for": "Administration as a large share of deal fees, which usually reflects either heavy process complexity or coordination work absorbing time that belongs in substantive codes. Checklist and status call time across many timekeepers is the common pattern.", "review_signal": "Track P100 as a percentage of total deal fees across comparable transactions. It is the transactional counterpart to the A105 discipline: coordination is necessary, and its cost should still be visible and benchmarked.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/project/#p100" }, { "set": "Project", "standard": "ABA", "code": "P200", "anchor": "p200", "name": "Fact Gathering/Due Diligence", "description": "Due diligence review, data room work, and diligence reporting.", "usage": "Use for diligence work. On acquisitions this is routinely the largest single code on the invoice.", "watch_for": "Diligence staffed at rates above the document-review market for the work involved, diligence scope expanding without a corresponding scope conversation, and long-form diligence memoranda where issue-list reporting was requested.", "review_signal": "Diligence is the most negotiable component of deal fees: scope, staffing model, and report format are all engagement terms. P200 data across deals gives you the baseline to negotiate from, and alternative staffing models price against it directly.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/project/#p200" }, { "set": "Project", "standard": "ABA", "code": "P300", "anchor": "p300", "name": "Structure/Strategy/Analysis", "description": "Deal structuring, tax and regulatory analysis, and strategic advice on the transaction.", "usage": "Use for structuring and analytical work. Senior concentration is expected and appropriate here.", "watch_for": "Structuring time recurring on deal patterns the firm has executed for you repeatedly, where prior work product should carry forward.", "review_signal": "Repeat deal types should show declining P300 cost over time. Flat or rising structuring cost on a standard playbook is a fact worth raising at the relationship review.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/project/#p300" }, { "set": "Project", "standard": "ABA", "code": "P400", "anchor": "p400", "name": "Initial Document Preparation/Filing", "description": "Drafting the initial transaction documents and making initial filings.", "usage": "Use for first-draft document preparation and initial regulatory or corporate filings.", "watch_for": "First drafts of standard agreements billed at original-drafting hours when the firm's precedent bank supplies the starting point, the transactional counterpart of the A103 template pattern.", "review_signal": "Hours per document type across deals is a clean benchmark. Firms with strong precedent systems show it in the data, and that efficiency is part of what panel selection should price.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/project/#p400" }, { "set": "Project", "standard": "ABA", "code": "P500", "anchor": "p500", "name": "Negotiation/Revision/Responses", "description": "Negotiating terms, exchanging drafts, and responding to counterparty positions.", "usage": "Use for negotiation-stage work, typically the center of gravity of deal fees alongside diligence.", "watch_for": "Turn volume: many drafting rounds on provisions with established market positions, and full-team attendance at negotiation sessions that call for the lead and one support.", "review_signal": "Rounds of turns per document and negotiation session staffing are both visible in the entries. Deal post-mortems that use this data change behavior on the next transaction more than adjustments change this one.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/project/#p500" }, { "set": "Project", "standard": "ABA", "code": "P600", "anchor": "p600", "name": "Completion/Closing", "description": "Closing preparation, conditions satisfaction, closing execution, and funds flow.", "usage": "Use for closing-stage work, naturally compressed and intensive.", "watch_for": "Closing checklists and signature logistics at senior rates, and closing-week surges that reflect deferred work arriving late rather than closing complexity.", "review_signal": "Closing cost per deal size and type benchmarks well. Where the surge pattern repeats across deals with one firm, it is a workflow conversation, and the phase data makes it concrete.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/project/#p600" }, { "set": "Project", "standard": "ABA", "code": "P700", "anchor": "p700", "name": "Post-Completion/Post-Closing", "description": "Post-closing deliverables, filings, integration support, and closing set preparation.", "usage": "Use for the defined post-closing workstream.", "watch_for": "Post-closing work continuing indefinitely, which usually means new advisory work is riding on the deal matter number rather than opening as its own engagement.", "review_signal": "Post-closing should have an end date. P700 entries months after closing are a matter-hygiene flag; new work deserves a new matter with its own budget.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/project/#p700" }, { "set": "Project", "standard": "ABA", "code": "P800", "anchor": "p800", "name": "Maintenance and Renewal", "description": "Ongoing maintenance of the structure or asset, such as renewals, periodic filings, and compliance maintenance.", "usage": "Use for recurring maintenance obligations arising from the transaction.", "watch_for": "Recurring maintenance billed as bespoke work each cycle when the tasks repeat annually with minor variation.", "review_signal": "Recurring work is the strongest candidate for fixed-fee treatment on any invoice. P800 volume identifies exactly which workstreams to convert, with the historical hours as your pricing baseline.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/project/#p800" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B110", "anchor": "b110", "name": "Case Administration", "description": "General case administration, coordination, and matters not covered by a more specific code.", "usage": "Use for genuine case administration. In practice this functions as the bankruptcy catch-all, so restraint here is the mark of careful coding.", "watch_for": "B110 carrying a large share of case fees, which fee examiners and the US Trustee read the same way a client reads catch-all concentration anywhere: as coding that limits scrutiny.", "review_signal": "Track B110 as a percentage of fees by professional. In examined cases, low catch-all usage is also self-interested for the firm, since it supports the fee application.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b110" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B120", "anchor": "b120", "name": "Asset Analysis and Recovery", "description": "Identifying, analyzing, and recovering estate assets.", "usage": "Use for asset identification and recovery work.", "watch_for": "Overlap with B180 avoidance analysis and with litigation coding when recovery becomes contested, which splits one workstream across categories.", "review_signal": "Read B120 with B180 and any adversary proceeding fees for the full recovery-effort cost against the value actually recovered.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b120" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B130", "anchor": "b130", "name": "Asset Disposition", "description": "Sales and other dispositions of estate assets, including sale motions and auction processes.", "usage": "Use for asset sale work, including 363 sale processes.", "watch_for": "Sale process fees relative to asset value on smaller dispositions, where process cost can approach the recovery.", "review_signal": "Fees per disposition against proceeds is the natural benchmark, and the code isolates it cleanly.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b130" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B140", "anchor": "b140", "name": "Relief from Stay/Adequate Protection Proceedings", "description": "Stay relief motions and adequate protection litigation.", "usage": "Use for stay-related contested matters.", "watch_for": "Routine stay relief responses billed at contested-matter depth when the outcome follows established patterns.", "review_signal": "Stay relief motions are docketed and largely formulaic in volume cases. Cost per motion benchmarks quickly.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b140" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B150", "anchor": "b150", "name": "Meetings of and Communications with Creditors", "description": "Creditor meetings, committee communication, and 341 meeting work.", "usage": "Use for creditor-facing communication and meetings.", "watch_for": "Multiple professionals attending creditor and committee meetings beyond the roles the meeting requires, the multi-attendee pattern in its bankruptcy form.", "review_signal": "Meeting attendance against a staffing expectation, with meeting dates verifiable from the case calendar.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b150" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B160", "anchor": "b160", "name": "Fee/Employment Applications", "description": "Preparing retention applications and fee applications.", "usage": "Use for the firm's own retention and fee application work. Courts generally permit reasonable time here, with expectations about proportionality.", "watch_for": "Fee application preparation consuming a share of fees beyond what courts in the district typically regard as proportionate.", "review_signal": "B160 as a percentage of total fees is a published, benchmarkable figure in examined cases, which gives the review an external standard most invoice line items never have.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b160" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B170", "anchor": "b170", "name": "Fee/Employment Objections", "description": "Litigating objections to retention or fees, the firm's own or others'.", "usage": "Use for objection-related contested work.", "watch_for": "Defense of the firm's own fees billed to the estate where the court's practice limits it.", "review_signal": "District practice on fee-defense compensability is the governing reference, and it varies, so the check is jurisdictional.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b170" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B180", "anchor": "b180", "name": "Avoidance Action Analysis", "description": "Analyzing preference and fraudulent transfer exposure and recovery potential.", "usage": "Use for avoidance analysis before actions are filed; filed actions typically move to litigation coding.", "watch_for": "Analysis cost on claims whose size cannot support it, since avoidance work is only as valuable as the net recovery it enables.", "review_signal": "Analysis fees against the claim pool being analyzed. The economics question is visible when the code is used consistently.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b180" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B185", "anchor": "b185", "name": "Assumption/Rejection of Leases and Contracts", "description": "Analyzing and litigating assumption and rejection of executory contracts and leases.", "usage": "Use for 365 work on the contract and lease portfolio.", "watch_for": "Per-contract analysis billed uniformly across a portfolio where most contracts follow a small number of patterns.", "review_signal": "Cost per contract decision, with portfolio triage as the expected approach on volume caseloads.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b185" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B190", "anchor": "b190", "name": "Other Contested Matters", "description": "Contested matters not covered by a more specific code.", "usage": "Use for miscellaneous contested matters, excluding adversary proceedings running under litigation codes.", "watch_for": "Material contested-matter fees pooling here rather than under specific codes, which limits what the fee data can show.", "review_signal": "Narrative-level read on material entries, and the same catch-all hygiene tracking applied everywhere else.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b190" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B195", "anchor": "b195", "name": "Non-Working Travel", "description": "Travel time not spent working on the matter.", "usage": "Use for non-working travel, which most guidelines and many courts compensate at a reduced rate.", "watch_for": "Travel billed at full rates where the applicable guideline or district practice specifies a reduction, and working travel claimed without work product visible in adjacent entries.", "review_signal": "The rate reduction is mechanical once the code is applied honestly, which is exactly why the code exists. Full-rate travel under other codes is the pattern automated rules should catch.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b195" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B210", "anchor": "b210", "name": "Business Operations", "description": "Advising on the debtor's ongoing business operations during the case.", "usage": "Use for operational advice to the debtor in possession.", "watch_for": "Operational advice that is ordinary-course business counseling arriving at restructuring rates because a case is pending.", "review_signal": "Whether the work required bankruptcy expertise is a fair staffing question, and the code isolates the population where it applies.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b210" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B220", "anchor": "b220", "name": "Employee Benefits/Pensions", "description": "Employee, benefits, and pension issues in the case.", "usage": "Use for workforce and benefits matters, including retention and severance programs.", "watch_for": "Overlap with ordinary employment counsel work running outside the case.", "review_signal": "Coordination between restructuring counsel and regular employment counsel is a cost boundary worth defining at case start; the code shows whether it held.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b220" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B230", "anchor": "b230", "name": "Financing/Cash Collateral", "description": "DIP financing and cash collateral matters.", "usage": "Use for financing workstreams, typically front-loaded and intensive.", "watch_for": "Financing fees on renewal and extension motions that follow the original order's pattern.", "review_signal": "First-day financing work is inherently heavy; the benchmark applies to the follow-on motions, which should cost a fraction of the original.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b230" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B240", "anchor": "b240", "name": "Tax Issues", "description": "Tax matters arising in the case.", "usage": "Use for case-related tax work.", "watch_for": "Boundary with the company's regular tax advisors, the B220 dynamic in tax form.", "review_signal": "Advisor-boundary definition at case start, with the code showing where the work actually landed.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b240" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B250", "anchor": "b250", "name": "Real Estate", "description": "Real estate matters in the case.", "usage": "Use for real-estate-specific workstreams.", "watch_for": "Overlap with B185 on lease-heavy cases, where the same lease work could plausibly land in either code.", "review_signal": "Pick a convention at case start and hold it, because consistency matters more than the choice for what the data can tell you.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b250" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B260", "anchor": "b260", "name": "Board of Directors Matters", "description": "Advising the board and governance matters during the case.", "usage": "Use for governance advice in the restructuring context.", "watch_for": "Full-team attendance at board meetings, the recurring multi-attendee pattern at its highest rates.", "review_signal": "Board meeting attendance against an agreed staffing expectation, with meetings documented in minutes.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b260" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B310", "anchor": "b310", "name": "Claims Administration and Objections", "description": "Claims review, reconciliation, and objection practice.", "usage": "Use for claims work, often high-volume and pattern-driven.", "watch_for": "Uniform per-claim cost across a pool where omnibus objections and claims agents should be driving unit cost down.", "review_signal": "Cost per claim resolved, with the claims agent's role and omnibus procedures as the structural cost levers the data should reflect.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b310" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B320", "anchor": "b320", "name": "Plan and Disclosure Statement", "description": "Formulating, drafting, negotiating, and confirming the plan and disclosure statement.", "usage": "Use for plan-related work, the strategic center of a reorganization.", "watch_for": "Plan drafting distributed across many timekeepers, and confirmation-stage surges reflecting deferred negotiation rather than confirmation complexity.", "review_signal": "Plan-phase budgeting at case milestones, with B320 tracked against it. In examined cases this figure is public across comparable cases, which makes benchmarking unusually concrete.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b320" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B410", "anchor": "b410", "name": "General Bankruptcy Advice/Opinions", "description": "Analysis, advice, and opinions on potential bankruptcy issues where no case has been filed.", "usage": "Use for pre-filing and non-case bankruptcy advisory work, such as counterparty insolvency risk analysis.", "watch_for": "Advisory work continuing under B410 after a case is filed, when the work belongs under the case-phase codes.", "review_signal": "The petition date is the dividing line. Coding on either side of it should follow the docket, the same convention as L460 and L510.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b410" }, { "set": "Bankruptcy", "standard": "ABA", "code": "B420", "anchor": "b420", "name": "Restructurings", "description": "Analysis, consultation, and drafting for out-of-court restructurings of agreements, including financing agreements, where no bankruptcy case has been filed.", "usage": "Use for out-of-court workout and restructuring engagements.", "watch_for": "Restructuring engagements that later convert to filed cases carrying their history under B420, which splits the total cost of the situation across two coding regimes.", "review_signal": "For situations that move from workout to filing, read B420 and the case-phase codes together for the full cost of the restructuring effort.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/bankruptcy/#b420" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110101", "anchor": "110101", "name": "Become Familiar with Invention/Idea", "description": "Initial review and understanding of the invention disclosure.", "usage": "Use for first engagement with a disclosure.", "watch_for": "Familiarization time recurring across related applications in the same family, where prior understanding should carry forward.", "review_signal": "Hours per disclosure by technology area; families should show declining familiarization cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110101" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110102", "anchor": "110102", "name": "Formalize Invention/Idea", "description": "Working the disclosure into a formalized invention description suitable for strategy and drafting.", "usage": "Use for disclosure development work.", "watch_for": "Formalization absorbing drafting work that belongs in the application preparation phase.", "review_signal": "The boundary with 110201, visible in whether claim language is being produced.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110102" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110103", "anchor": "110103", "name": "Develop Filing Strategy", "description": "Filing strategy development, including preliminary search review and strategy decisions on where and what to file.", "usage": "Use for strategy work preceding filing.", "watch_for": "Strategy time on filings that follow the client's standing filing rules, where the decision was already made by policy.", "review_signal": "Whether a genuine strategy decision existed, against the client's filing guidelines.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110103" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110201", "anchor": "110201", "name": "Prepare/Submit Initial Application", "description": "Preparing and submitting the application itself, including application data sheets, inventor declarations filed with the application, and PCT requests.", "usage": "Use for initial application preparation and filing, the largest work product in prosecution.", "watch_for": "Hours per application varying widely within a technology area, and family members billed at first-filing depth when priority documents supply most of the content.", "review_signal": "Cost per application by type (provisional, non-provisional, PCT, design) and technology area, the defining unit metric of patent spend, validated against the filing record.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110201" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110202", "anchor": "110202", "name": "Prepare/Submit Supplemental Documents", "description": "Supplemental filings around the application, including declarations, powers of attorney, preliminary amendments, and entity status petitions.", "usage": "Use for supplemental document work.", "watch_for": "Formalities at attorney rates where paralegal handling is standard practice.", "review_signal": "Per-document unit cost and staffing level, verifiable against the file record.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110202" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110203", "anchor": "110203", "name": "Request Special Examination", "description": "Petitions for prioritized or special examination, including Track 1 requests and petitions to make special.", "usage": "Use for acceleration requests.", "watch_for": "Acceleration requests without a stated business reason, since they carry both fees and prosecution-pace consequences.", "review_signal": "Whether the acceleration decision was client-directed, against the official record of the request.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110203" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110301", "anchor": "110301", "name": "Correct Application", "description": "Corrections to the application, including inventorship corrections, responses to missing parts and formalities notices, and corrected application data sheets.", "usage": "Use for correction work.", "watch_for": "Recurring corrections across a firm's filings, which indicate filing quality issues upstream.", "review_signal": "Correction frequency per application by firm, a filing-quality metric the office record verifies.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110301" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110302", "anchor": "110302", "name": "Restrict Application", "description": "Responses to restriction requirements.", "usage": "Use for restriction practice.", "watch_for": "Election responses billed at argument depth when a simple election was made.", "review_signal": "The response document itself shows the depth of work; unit cost per election.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110302" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110401", "anchor": "110401", "name": "[PCT] Patentability Analysis", "description": "PCT-stage patentability work, including demands for international preliminary examination and responses to ISA written opinions.", "usage": "Use for PCT examination-stage work.", "watch_for": "Substantive PCT argumentation on applications where national-phase strategy makes the international opinion low-stakes.", "review_signal": "Whether PCT-stage investment matches the national-phase plan.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110401" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110402", "anchor": "110402", "name": "Respond to Office Action", "description": "Responses to non-final and final office actions.", "usage": "Use for office action responses, the volume center of prosecution.", "watch_for": "Cost per response varying widely for rejections of the same type, and after-final responses where an RCE decision was already inevitable.", "review_signal": "Cost per office action response by rejection type and firm, the single most benchmarkable figure in patent prosecution, validated directly against the file wrapper.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110402" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110403", "anchor": "110403", "name": "Interview Examiner", "description": "Examiner interviews, including preparation and interview summaries.", "usage": "Use for interview practice.", "watch_for": "Interviews without documented outcomes advancing prosecution.", "review_signal": "Interview frequency against allowance progress; well-used interviews shorten prosecution and the record shows it.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110403" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110404", "anchor": "110404", "name": "File Information Disclosure Statement", "description": "Preparing and filing information disclosure statements.", "usage": "Use for IDS work.", "watch_for": "IDS preparation billed at substantive-review depth for reference-listing work, and duplicate IDS cost across family members citing the same art.", "review_signal": "Per-IDS unit cost and cross-family duplication, both visible in the filing record.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110404" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110405", "anchor": "110405", "name": "Request Continued Examination", "description": "Requests for continued examination.", "usage": "Use for RCE filings.", "watch_for": "RCE cycles repeating without strategy change, each restarting the office action meter.", "review_signal": "RCE count per application by firm; sustained multi-RCE prosecution is a strategy conversation the data forces.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110405" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110501", "anchor": "110501", "name": "Abandon Application", "description": "Express abandonment of an application.", "usage": "Use for deliberate abandonment filings.", "watch_for": "Little; the review interest is portfolio-level.", "review_signal": "Abandonments tie to keep-or-drop decisions that should trace to portfolio review, not inertia.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110501" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110601", "anchor": "110601", "name": "File Appeal", "description": "Patent office appeal work, including notices of appeal, appeal briefs, and replies. Court appeals run under litigation codes.", "usage": "Use for PTAB-track appeals.", "watch_for": "Appeals filed as leverage where an interview or RCE was the cheaper path, and brief hours spread across many timekeepers.", "review_signal": "Cost per appeal against outcomes, and the appeal-versus-RCE decision made explicitly.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110601" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110701", "anchor": "110701", "name": "Conduct Post-Allowance Review", "description": "Post-allowance review of the application before issue.", "usage": "Use for pre-issue review.", "watch_for": "Full-application re-review at allowance where a targeted issue checklist is the standard.", "review_signal": "Per-allowance unit cost; this is checklist work in most cases.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110701" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110702", "anchor": "110702", "name": "Pay Issue Fee", "description": "Issue fee payment processing.", "usage": "Use for issue fee handling.", "watch_for": "Fee payment processing at attorney rates.", "review_signal": "Administrative staffing; the fee itself is an E129 expense.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110702" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110703", "anchor": "110703", "name": "Withdraw from Issue", "description": "Petitions to withdraw an application from issuance.", "usage": "Use for withdrawal petitions.", "watch_for": "Rare; withdrawal usually signals late-breaking strategy or art.", "review_signal": "The narrative should state the reason; the event is unusual enough to read individually.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110703" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110801", "anchor": "110801", "name": "Pay Maintenance Fees", "description": "Maintenance fee payment processing, including address change forms.", "usage": "Use for maintenance fee handling; the fees themselves are E130 expenses.", "watch_for": "Per-payment professional fees layered on official fees where an annuity service handles the portfolio at lower unit cost.", "review_signal": "Unit cost per maintenance event against annuity service pricing, and every payment as a conscious keep decision.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110801" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110802", "anchor": "110802", "name": "Request Patent Term Adjustment", "description": "Requests for reconsideration of patent term adjustment.", "usage": "Use for PTA work.", "watch_for": "PTA requests pursued where the adjustment days carry no commercial value for the asset.", "review_signal": "Whether the term at stake justifies the request, asset by asset.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110802" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110803", "anchor": "110803", "name": "Re-Issue", "description": "Reissue proceedings.", "usage": "Use for reissue work.", "watch_for": "Reissue used where a certificate of correction would serve.", "review_signal": "The remedial-path decision, documented before the work begins.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110803" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110804", "anchor": "110804", "name": "Re-Examine", "description": "Reexamination proceedings.", "usage": "Use for reexamination work.", "watch_for": "Staffing intensity, since reexam approaches contested-matter economics.", "review_signal": "Phase budgeting at initiation, as with any contested proceeding.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110804" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2023)", "code": "110901", "anchor": "110901", "name": "Petition to Revive", "description": "Petitions to revive an abandoned application.", "usage": "Use for revival petitions.", "watch_for": "Revivals tracing to missed deadlines, which pair with E131 late fees as a docketing-quality signal.", "review_signal": "Revival frequency by firm; the petition cost is small next to what it says about process.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#110901" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA110", "anchor": "pa110", "name": "Fact Investigation and Development", "description": "Investigating and understanding the facts of a patent matter not covered elsewhere, including interviews and document review.", "usage": "Use for early factual development.", "watch_for": "General-administration volume on prosecution-heavy portfolios.", "review_signal": "PA100-group share of patent fees; prosecution work should dominate the PA300 through PA600 groups.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa110" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA120", "anchor": "pa120", "name": "Analysis/Strategy", "description": "Strategy and planning not covered by other codes, including initial case-assessment research. Task-specific research belongs with its task, such as office action research under PA430.", "usage": "Use for genuine strategy work.", "watch_for": "Task-supporting research coded here, which drains the unit metrics.", "review_signal": "Whether entries name a strategic question or a prosecution task.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa120" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA130", "anchor": "pa130", "name": "Document/File Management", "description": "Creating and managing matter databases and filing systems, narrowly defined; docketing belongs with underlying tasks.", "usage": "Use sparingly.", "watch_for": "Docketing at professional rates, the A110 pattern.", "review_signal": "The overhead test from guidelines.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa130" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA140", "anchor": "pa140", "name": "Budgeting", "description": "Developing, negotiating, and revising the matter budget outside other tasks.", "usage": "Use where guidelines permit billing budget work.", "watch_for": "Billable budgeting against a non-billable designation.", "review_signal": "Guideline designation, as with L150.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa140" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA199", "anchor": "pa199", "name": "Other Assessment, Development, or Administration", "description": "Administration work fitting no previous code.", "usage": "Minimal expected usage.", "watch_for": "Catch-all concentration.", "review_signal": "Cross-set catch-all hygiene metric.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa199" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA210", "anchor": "pa210", "name": "State-of-the-Art Investigation", "description": "Broad collection searches establishing the state of the art in a technology area, typically at conceptual design stage.", "usage": "Use for state-of-the-art searches; vendor search costs are expenses.", "watch_for": "Broad searches ordered where a targeted patentability search fits the stage.", "review_signal": "Search type matched to development stage, and cost per search.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa210" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA220", "anchor": "pa220", "name": "Patentability Investigation", "description": "Novelty and prior art searching scoping available protection for a defined invention.", "usage": "Use for patentability searches.", "watch_for": "Per-search cost variance across firms for comparable technologies.", "review_signal": "Cost per patentability search as a unit benchmark.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa220" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA230", "anchor": "pa230", "name": "Clearance Investigation", "description": "Right-to-use and non-infringement searching against claims covering a defined commercial embodiment. Formal opinions bill under PA710.", "usage": "Use for clearance work.", "watch_for": "Clearance repeated across related products without carry-forward.", "review_signal": "Related-product reuse and cost per clearance.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa230" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA240", "anchor": "pa240", "name": "Validity Investigation", "description": "Searching for prior art not considered in examination that bears on claim validity. Formal invalidity opinions bill under PA710.", "usage": "Use for validity investigations.", "watch_for": "Validity work volume unanchored to the exposure or opportunity driving it.", "review_signal": "Investigation cost against the value of the claim challenge.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa240" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA250", "anchor": "pa250", "name": "Publication Watches", "description": "Periodic watch searches on assignees, technologies, applications, or patents.", "usage": "Use for watch programs; vendor watch services are expenses.", "watch_for": "Attorney-rate triage of watch results a structured process would compress.", "review_signal": "Watch program cost against actions taken from it, the TR250 logic.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa250" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA260", "anchor": "pa260", "name": "Infringement Investigation", "description": "Comparing non-client products against client claims, including samples and claim charts. Formal opinions and complaint support bill under PA710.", "usage": "Use for infringement investigations.", "watch_for": "Investigation continuing after enforcement launches, when litigation codes govern.", "review_signal": "The investigation-to-enforcement coding boundary.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa260" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA270", "anchor": "pa270", "name": "Status Investigation", "description": "Determining application or patent status, including annuity and maintenance status checks.", "usage": "Use for status work.", "watch_for": "Manual status volume a docketing system report replaces.", "review_signal": "Aggregate status-work volume as a tooling signal, the TR270 logic.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa270" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA299", "anchor": "pa299", "name": "Other Patent Investigation and Analysis", "description": "Investigation work fitting no previous code.", "usage": "Minimal expected usage.", "watch_for": "Catch-all concentration.", "review_signal": "Cross-set hygiene metric.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa299" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA310", "anchor": "pa310", "name": "Provisional Application Preparation - Domestic", "description": "Preparing and filing domestic provisional applications, including disclosure review, inventor interviews, drafting, and formal documents.", "usage": "Use for domestic provisionals.", "watch_for": "Provisional drafting at non-provisional depth where a cost-efficient placeholder was the strategy.", "review_signal": "Cost per provisional against its strategic role.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa310" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA320", "anchor": "pa320", "name": "Non-Provisional Application Preparation - Domestic", "description": "Preparing and filing domestic non-provisional utility applications, including PCT and regional applications filed in the home country.", "usage": "Use for domestic utility applications, the core unit of patent spend.", "watch_for": "Per-application cost variance within a technology area, and family members billed at first-filing depth.", "review_signal": "Cost per application by technology area, the defining benchmark and fixed-fee basis.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa320" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA330", "anchor": "pa330", "name": "Design Application Preparation - Domestic", "description": "Preparing and filing domestic design applications.", "usage": "Use for domestic design filings.", "watch_for": "Design filings at utility-application cost.", "review_signal": "Per-design unit cost; design prosecution is standardized work.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa330" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA340", "anchor": "pa340", "name": "Plant Patent Preparation - Domestic", "description": "Preparing and filing domestic plant patent applications.", "usage": "Use for plant patents.", "watch_for": "Rare enough that entries merit individual reads.", "review_signal": "Narrative-level review on this low-volume category.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa340" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA350", "anchor": "pa350", "name": "Continuing Application Preparation - Domestic", "description": "Domestic continuations, divisionals, reissue applications, reexamination requests, and same-country PCT national phase entry.", "usage": "Use for continuing applications without new disclosure; CIPs bill as new applications.", "watch_for": "Continuations billed at original-drafting depth when the parent supplies the content.", "review_signal": "Cost per continuation versus cost per original, a ratio that should be well under one.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa350" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA360", "anchor": "pa360", "name": "Validation Patent Application Preparation - Domestic", "description": "Validating issued regional patents in the home country.", "usage": "Use for domestic validations.", "watch_for": "Per-validation costs above the formality level of the work.", "review_signal": "Unit cost per validation.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa360" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA399", "anchor": "pa399", "name": "Other Patent Application Preparation - Domestic", "description": "Domestic preparation work fitting no previous code.", "usage": "Minimal expected usage.", "watch_for": "Catch-all concentration.", "review_signal": "Cross-set hygiene metric.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa399" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA410", "anchor": "pa410", "name": "Information Disclosure Statement - Domestic", "description": "Bringing prior art to the examiner's attention after filing; IDS filed with the application bills under PA300.", "usage": "Use for post-filing domestic IDS work.", "watch_for": "IDS at substantive-review depth for listing work, and duplicate citation cost across families.", "review_signal": "Per-IDS unit cost and cross-family duplication, the 110404 logic.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa410" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA420", "anchor": "pa420", "name": "Preliminary Amendment - Domestic", "description": "Pre-examination amendments not affecting disclosure scope.", "usage": "Use for domestic preliminary amendments.", "watch_for": "Frequent amendments signaling filing quality issues.", "review_signal": "Amendment frequency per application by firm.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa420" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA430", "anchor": "pa430", "name": "Official Communication - Domestic", "description": "Processing domestic office actions and official communications, including docketing, proposed responses, arguments, interviews, petitions, and non-merits communications.", "usage": "Use for domestic prosecution correspondence, the volume center.", "watch_for": "Cost per office action response varying widely by firm for the same rejection types, and routine notices at full handling rates.", "review_signal": "Cost per response by rejection type, the most benchmarkable figure in patent spend.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa430" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA440", "anchor": "pa440", "name": "Quasi-Judicial Administrative Proceedings - Domestic", "description": "Domestic patent office tribunal proceedings: appeals, oppositions, interferences, and other contested matters.", "usage": "Use for domestic tribunal proceedings.", "watch_for": "Contested-matter staffing without phase budgeting.", "review_signal": "Cost per proceeding against outcomes, budgeted at initiation.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa440" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA450", "anchor": "pa450", "name": "Post-Issuance Remedial Action - Domestic", "description": "Post-issuance corrections such as certificates of correction and term adjustment corrections.", "usage": "Use for domestic remedial actions.", "watch_for": "Remedial frequency tracing to prosecution errors.", "review_signal": "Remedial rate by firm as a quality metric.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa450" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA499", "anchor": "pa499", "name": "Other Patent Prosecution - Domestic", "description": "Domestic prosecution work fitting no previous code.", "usage": "Minimal expected usage.", "watch_for": "Catch-all concentration.", "review_signal": "Cross-set hygiene metric.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa499" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA510", "anchor": "pa510", "name": "Provisional Application Preparation - International", "description": "Provisional applications filed outside the home country, including translations coordination.", "usage": "Use for international provisionals.", "watch_for": "Duplicated preparation between lead counsel and foreign associates.", "review_signal": "Combined lead-plus-associate cost per filing.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa510" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA520", "anchor": "pa520", "name": "Non-Provisional Application Preparation - International", "description": "Utility applications filed outside the home country, including PCT internationals filed abroad.", "usage": "Use for international utility filings.", "watch_for": "Per-country preparation cost where the priority document supplies the content.", "review_signal": "Cost per country per filing, with the filing-route decision explicit.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa520" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA530", "anchor": "pa530", "name": "Design Application Preparation - International", "description": "Design applications filed outside the home country.", "usage": "Use for international design filings.", "watch_for": "Per-country cost on standardized design filings.", "review_signal": "Unit cost per country.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa530" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA540", "anchor": "pa540", "name": "Plant Patent Preparation - International", "description": "Plant patent applications filed outside the home country.", "usage": "Use for international plant filings.", "watch_for": "Low volume; individual reads.", "review_signal": "Narrative-level review.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa540" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA550", "anchor": "pa550", "name": "Continuing Application Preparation - International", "description": "Continuing applications abroad, including cross-country PCT national phase entry.", "usage": "Use for international continuations and national phase entries.", "watch_for": "National phase entries billed at drafting depth for what is largely formalities plus translation.", "review_signal": "Cost per national phase entry per country, one of the most negotiable unit prices in IP.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa550" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA560", "anchor": "pa560", "name": "Validation Patent Application Preparation - International", "description": "Validating issued regional patents outside the home country.", "usage": "Use for international validations.", "watch_for": "Per-country validation cost above formality level.", "review_signal": "Unit cost per validation per country.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa560" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA599", "anchor": "pa599", "name": "Other Patent Application Preparation - International", "description": "International preparation work fitting no previous code.", "usage": "Minimal expected usage.", "watch_for": "Catch-all concentration.", "review_signal": "Cross-set hygiene metric.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa599" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA610", "anchor": "pa610", "name": "Information Disclosure Statement - International", "description": "Post-filing prior art submissions outside the home country.", "usage": "Use for international IDS work.", "watch_for": "Lead-counsel review layered on associate formalities.", "review_signal": "Combined per-IDS cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa610" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA620", "anchor": "pa620", "name": "Preliminary Amendment - International", "description": "Pre-examination amendments abroad.", "usage": "Use for international preliminary amendments.", "watch_for": "The PA420 pattern with an associate layer.", "review_signal": "Amendment frequency and the lead-local division.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa620" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA630", "anchor": "pa630", "name": "Official Communication - International", "description": "Processing office actions abroad, including instructions to local counsel.", "usage": "Use for international prosecution correspondence.", "watch_for": "Both lead and local counsel billing substantive response work on one communication.", "review_signal": "Cost per response per country with fee and associate expense read together, the TR630 logic.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa630" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA640", "anchor": "pa640", "name": "Quasi-Judicial Administrative Proceedings - International", "description": "Tribunal proceedings before foreign patent offices, including oppositions.", "usage": "Use for international tribunal proceedings; EPO oppositions concentrate here.", "watch_for": "Opposition staffing intensity without phase budgets.", "review_signal": "Cost per opposition against portfolio value at stake.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa640" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA650", "anchor": "pa650", "name": "Post-Issuance Remedial Action - International", "description": "Post-issuance remedial actions outside the home country.", "usage": "Use for international remedial work.", "watch_for": "Remedial frequency by country and firm.", "review_signal": "Remedial rate as a quality metric.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa650" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA699", "anchor": "pa699", "name": "Other Patent Prosecution - International", "description": "International prosecution work fitting no previous code.", "usage": "Minimal expected usage.", "watch_for": "Catch-all concentration.", "review_signal": "Cross-set hygiene metric.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa699" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA710", "anchor": "pa710", "name": "Opinion Preparation", "description": "Formal opinions on validity, enforceability, infringement, or non-infringement of patent claims.", "usage": "Use for formal opinions; investigations feeding them run under PA200.", "watch_for": "Formal opinion format where an assessment memo was requested.", "review_signal": "Format at intake and cost per opinion.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa710" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA720", "anchor": "pa720", "name": "Portfolio Analysis and Management", "description": "Reviewing, analyzing, and managing the patent portfolio, including transactional due diligence.", "usage": "Use for portfolio work.", "watch_for": "Reviews rebuilt each cycle rather than maintained.", "review_signal": "Declining review cost on a maintained portfolio.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa720" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA730", "anchor": "pa730", "name": "Assignments and Security Interests", "description": "Negotiating and preparing assignments and security interests, including file history review.", "usage": "Use for assignment work.", "watch_for": "Recordation formalities at attorney rates.", "review_signal": "Per-recordation unit cost, a fixed-fee candidate.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa730" }, { "set": "Patent", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "PA740", "anchor": "pa740", "name": "Licensing", "description": "Negotiating and preparing patent licenses.", "usage": "Use for license work.", "watch_for": "Standard-form licenses at bespoke depth.", "review_signal": "Hours per license against deviation from standard terms.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/patent/#pa740" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR110", "anchor": "tr110", "name": "Fact Investigation and Development", "description": "Investigating and understanding the facts of a trademark matter, including initial client meetings, interviews, and document review not covered by a more specific code.", "usage": "Use for early factual development on a trademark matter.", "watch_for": "The general-administration share of a prosecution-heavy portfolio running high, since most trademark work has a specific home in the codes below.", "review_signal": "TR100-group concentration as a percentage of trademark fees; prosecution portfolios should show most volume in the TR300 through TR600 groups.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr110" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR120", "anchor": "tr120", "name": "Analysis/Strategy", "description": "Strategic thinking and planning for a trademark matter not covered elsewhere, including initial case-assessment research.", "usage": "Use for genuine strategy work. Research supporting a specific task belongs with that task, such as office action research under TR430 or TR630.", "watch_for": "Research and analysis coded here when it supports a specific prosecution task, which shifts cost out of the unit metrics.", "review_signal": "Whether analysis entries name a strategic question or a specific task; the latter belong with the task code.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr120" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR130", "anchor": "tr130", "name": "Document/File Management", "description": "Creating and managing document databases and filing systems for the matter, narrowly defined.", "usage": "Use sparingly; calendaring and docketing belong with the underlying task codes unless the client instructs otherwise.", "watch_for": "Administrative docketing time at professional rates, the trademark version of the A110 and L140 pattern.", "review_signal": "The overhead test from your guidelines applies regardless of the task code chosen.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr130" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR140", "anchor": "tr140", "name": "Budgeting", "description": "Developing, negotiating, and revising the matter budget where not part of another task.", "usage": "Use for budget work where guidelines permit billing it.", "watch_for": "Billable budgeting where guidelines designate it non-billable.", "review_signal": "The guideline designation, same as L150.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr140" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR199", "anchor": "tr199", "name": "Other Assessment, Development, or Administration", "description": "Assessment and administration work that fits no previous code.", "usage": "Minimal expected usage.", "watch_for": "Material volume in the catch-all.", "review_signal": "Fold into the cross-set catch-all hygiene metric by firm.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr199" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR220", "anchor": "tr220", "name": "Registerability Investigation", "description": "Knockout or preliminary searching to determine initial availability of a mark, including scoping, search, analysis, and reporting.", "usage": "Use for preliminary knockout searches that decide whether a full clearance under TR230 is warranted. Vendor search costs belong under expense codes.", "watch_for": "Full-search-level hours on preliminary screens, and preliminary searches skipped so every mark goes straight to full clearance cost.", "review_signal": "Cost per knockout search and the ratio of TR220 to TR230 volume, which shows whether the two-stage screening discipline is operating.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr220" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR230", "anchor": "tr230", "name": "Clearance Investigation", "description": "Full clearance searching to determine final availability and registerability, covering registry records, common law sources, and business records, with analysis and reporting.", "usage": "Use for full clearance work. Formal opinions belong under TR710.", "watch_for": "Full clearances on marks a knockout search would have eliminated, and wide cost variance per clearance across firms.", "review_signal": "Cost per clearance as a unit benchmark, read with E128 vendor search costs for the complete figure.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr230" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR240", "anchor": "tr240", "name": "Opposition Investigation", "description": "Investigating actual or potential opposition, infringement, or dilution claims before a trademark office tribunal.", "usage": "Use for the investigation stage; contested proceedings themselves run under TR440 or TR640.", "watch_for": "Investigation continuing after the proceeding begins, when the work belongs with the proceeding code.", "review_signal": "The filing date of the proceeding is the coding boundary, verifiable from the tribunal record.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr240" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR250", "anchor": "tr250", "name": "Publication Watches", "description": "Planning, running, and reporting periodic watch searches for conflicting marks and monitored applications.", "usage": "Use for watch program work; vendor watch services belong under E128.", "watch_for": "Attorney-rate review of watch notices that a structured triage process would resolve faster, and watch reporting billed per notice at rates that exceed the decision value.", "review_signal": "Watch program cost per year against actions actually taken from watch notices; the program should pay for itself in caught conflicts.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr250" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR260", "anchor": "tr260", "name": "Enforcement Investigation", "description": "Investigating potential infringement, dilution, or unfair competition claims headed for court rather than a trademark office tribunal.", "usage": "Use for the investigative stage of court-track enforcement; litigation itself runs under the litigation codes.", "watch_for": "The TR260-to-litigation-codes transition applied inconsistently, splitting enforcement cost across coding regimes.", "review_signal": "Read TR260 with litigation fees on the same dispute for the full enforcement cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr260" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR270", "anchor": "tr270", "name": "Status Investigation", "description": "Determining the status of pending or registered marks, including office inquiries, database review, and status reporting. Includes maintenance fee status checks.", "usage": "Use for status work; expect small, frequent entries.", "watch_for": "Recurring status reports billed at volumes that a docketing system report would replace.", "review_signal": "Aggregate TR270 volume per year; heavy manual status work usually signals a docketing tooling gap.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr270" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR299", "anchor": "tr299", "name": "Other Trademark Investigation and Analysis", "description": "Investigation and analysis that fits no previous code.", "usage": "Minimal expected usage.", "watch_for": "Material catch-all volume.", "review_signal": "Cross-set catch-all hygiene metric.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr299" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR310", "anchor": "tr310", "name": "Application Preparation and Filing - Domestic", "description": "Preparing and filing home-country trademark and service mark applications, including renewals filed as applications, specimen handling, use-date confirmation, drafting, filing, and reporting.", "usage": "Use for domestic application work. Government fees belong under expense codes.", "watch_for": "Per-application hours varying widely for standard single-class filings, which follow a stable pattern.", "review_signal": "Cost per application by class count, the core unit benchmark of domestic prosecution, and the natural basis for fixed-fee schedules.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr310" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR399", "anchor": "tr399", "name": "Other Domestic Trademark Application Preparation and Filing", "description": "Domestic application work that fits no previous code.", "usage": "Minimal expected usage.", "watch_for": "Material catch-all volume.", "review_signal": "Cross-set catch-all hygiene metric.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr399" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR410", "anchor": "tr410", "name": "Affidavits, Petitions, Extensions, Declarations and Other Filings - Domestic", "description": "Processing affidavits, petitions, extensions, declarations, ownership and correspondence changes with the home-country office, excluding office action responses.", "usage": "Use for domestic post-filing formalities.", "watch_for": "Extension filings recurring across the portfolio, which carry both fees and E131 surcharges and often trace to client decision latency worth fixing upstream.", "review_signal": "Per-filing unit cost, and extension frequency as a process metric shared with E131.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr410" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR420", "anchor": "tr420", "name": "Preliminary Amendment - Domestic", "description": "Amending a domestic application before examination on the merits, including revised drawings within permitted scope.", "usage": "Use for pre-examination amendments.", "watch_for": "Frequent preliminary amendments, which usually indicate application quality issues at initial filing.", "review_signal": "Amendment frequency per application by firm; well-prepared applications rarely need them.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr420" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR430", "anchor": "tr430", "name": "Official Communication - Domestic", "description": "Responding to office actions and other official communications from the home-country office, including deadline docketing, proposed responses, arguments, examiner interviews, and reporting. Includes non-merits communications such as notices of allowance and registration certificates.", "usage": "Use for domestic office action and official communication work, the volume center of domestic prosecution.", "watch_for": "Cost per office action response varying widely for refusals of the same type, and full-rate handling of routine non-merits notices such as registration certificates.", "review_signal": "Cost per response by refusal type, the most benchmarkable figure in trademark prosecution, with routine notice handling priced accordingly.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr430" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR440", "anchor": "tr440", "name": "Quasi-Judicial Administrative Proceedings - Domestic", "description": "Contested proceedings before the home-country office tribunal, including appeals, oppositions, and other ex parte and inter partes matters, covering evidence, motions, briefs, and hearings.", "usage": "Use for domestic TTAB-style proceedings.", "watch_for": "Full-litigation staffing intensity on proceedings that settle early, as most oppositions do.", "review_signal": "Cost per proceeding against outcomes, with early-resolution rates by firm as the strategic benchmark.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr440" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR499", "anchor": "tr499", "name": "Other Trademark Prosecution - Domestic", "description": "Domestic prosecution work that fits no previous code.", "usage": "Minimal expected usage.", "watch_for": "Material catch-all volume.", "review_signal": "Cross-set catch-all hygiene metric.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr499" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR510", "anchor": "tr510", "name": "Application Preparation and Filing - International", "description": "Preparing and filing applications outside the home country, including national, regional, and Madrid system filings, with powers of attorney, translations coordination, priority analysis, and reporting.", "usage": "Use for international application work. Foreign associate charges and official fees belong under expense codes.", "watch_for": "Duplicated preparation cost between lead counsel and foreign associates for the same filing, and Madrid-eligible filings routed as direct national applications without a stated reason.", "review_signal": "Cost per country per filing, and the Madrid-versus-national routing decision made explicitly, since it drives the whole cost structure of an international program.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr510" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR599", "anchor": "tr599", "name": "Other International Trademark Application Preparation and Filing", "description": "International application work that fits no previous code.", "usage": "Minimal expected usage.", "watch_for": "Material catch-all volume.", "review_signal": "Cross-set catch-all hygiene metric.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr599" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR610", "anchor": "tr610", "name": "Affidavits, Petitions, Extensions, Declarations and Other Filings - International", "description": "Post-filing formalities with offices outside the home country, excluding office action responses.", "usage": "Use for international post-filing formalities.", "watch_for": "Lead counsel review layered on foreign associate work for routine formalities.", "review_signal": "Per-filing cost including both the associate invoice (expense side) and lead counsel time, read together.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr610" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR620", "anchor": "tr620", "name": "Preliminary Amendment - International", "description": "Pre-examination amendments to international applications.", "usage": "Use for pre-examination amendments abroad.", "watch_for": "Same pattern as TR420, compounded by associate-and-lead-counsel duplication.", "review_signal": "Amendment frequency and the division of work between lead and local counsel.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr620" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR630", "anchor": "tr630", "name": "Official Communication - International", "description": "Responding to official communications from offices outside the home country, including proposed responses, instructions to local counsel, and reporting.", "usage": "Use for international office action work.", "watch_for": "Both lead counsel and the foreign associate billing substantive response work on the same communication.", "review_signal": "Cost per response per country, with the lead-versus-local division of labor visible when fee and expense sides are read together.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr630" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR640", "anchor": "tr640", "name": "Quasi-Judicial Administrative Proceedings - International", "description": "Contested proceedings before tribunals of offices outside the home country.", "usage": "Use for international opposition and appeal proceedings.", "watch_for": "Same staffing-intensity pattern as TR440 with an added coordination layer.", "review_signal": "Cost per proceeding per jurisdiction against outcomes.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr640" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR699", "anchor": "tr699", "name": "Other Trademark Prosecution - International", "description": "International prosecution work that fits no previous code.", "usage": "Minimal expected usage.", "watch_for": "Material catch-all volume.", "review_signal": "Cross-set catch-all hygiene metric.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr699" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR710", "anchor": "tr710", "name": "Opinion Preparation", "description": "Formal legal opinions on validity, enforceability, infringement, or non-infringement of trademark rights.", "usage": "Use for formal opinions; investigation feeding them runs under the TR200 group.", "watch_for": "Formal opinion format where an assessment memo was requested, the C300 format dynamic.", "review_signal": "Format expectations set at intake, and cost per opinion as a unit benchmark.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr710" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR720", "anchor": "tr720", "name": "Portfolio Analysis and Management", "description": "Reviewing, analyzing, documenting, and managing a trademark portfolio, including trademark due diligence in transactions.", "usage": "Use for portfolio-level work.", "watch_for": "Portfolio reviews rebuilt from scratch each cycle rather than maintained incrementally.", "review_signal": "Cost per portfolio review over time; a maintained portfolio should show declining review cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr720" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR730", "anchor": "tr730", "name": "Assignments and Security Interests", "description": "Negotiating and preparing assignments and security interests in marks, including file history review and status checks.", "usage": "Use for assignment and security interest work.", "watch_for": "Recordation formalities at attorney rates where paralegal handling is standard.", "review_signal": "Per-recordation unit cost, a fixed-fee candidate.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr730" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR740", "anchor": "tr740", "name": "Licensing", "description": "Negotiating and preparing trademark licenses.", "usage": "Use for license work.", "watch_for": "Standard-form licenses billed at bespoke-drafting hours, the A103 template pattern.", "review_signal": "Hours per license against the deviation from the client's standard form.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr740" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR750", "anchor": "tr750", "name": "Domain Names - gTLDs", "description": "Domain name applications and renewals for generic top-level domains.", "usage": "Use for gTLD registration work, normally routed through the incumbent registrar.", "watch_for": "Attorney time on registrations the registrar workflow completes administratively.", "review_signal": "Whether legal involvement was needed per registration event.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr750" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR760", "anchor": "tr760", "name": "Domain Names - ccTLDs", "description": "Domain name applications and renewals for country-code top-level domains.", "usage": "Use for ccTLD registration work, including local-presence requirements.", "watch_for": "Per-country handling costs that a corporate domain management vendor would consolidate.", "review_signal": "Portfolio-level domain management cost against vendor alternatives.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr760" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR770", "anchor": "tr770", "name": "Quasi-Judicial Administrative Proceedings - Domain Names", "description": "UDRP and similar domain dispute proceedings before administrative tribunals under ICANN and WIPO rules.", "usage": "Use for domain dispute proceedings; court actions run under litigation codes.", "watch_for": "UDRP filings on disputes a demand letter resolves, and vice versa.", "review_signal": "Cost per UDRP against outcomes; the procedure is standardized enough that per-proceeding pricing is realistic.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr770" }, { "set": "Trademark", "standard": "LOC (2009)", "code": "TR799", "anchor": "tr799", "name": "Other Trademark Related Tasks", "description": "Trademark work that fits no previous code.", "usage": "Minimal expected usage.", "watch_for": "Material catch-all volume.", "review_signal": "Cross-set catch-all hygiene metric.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/trademark/#tr799" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L601", "anchor": "l601", "name": "Discovery Planning", "description": "Discovery planning work, including initial complaint review for discovery scope and development of the data map.", "usage": "Use for front-end discovery planning.", "watch_for": "Planning rebuilt per matter where an organizational data map should carry forward across the portfolio.", "review_signal": "Planning hours per matter over time; a maintained data map should drive them down.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l601" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L602", "anchor": "l602", "name": "Interviews", "description": "Custodian and data steward interviews.", "usage": "Use for identification-stage interviews.", "watch_for": "Interview time per custodian varying widely, and interviews repeated for custodians covered in recent matters.", "review_signal": "Per-custodian interview cost and cross-matter reuse of custodian intelligence.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l602" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L609", "anchor": "l609", "name": "Quality Assurance and Control - Identification", "description": "QA work ensuring identification practices meet defensibility standards.", "usage": "Use for identification-phase QA.", "watch_for": "QA billed as a percentage-like overlay rather than tied to specific validation work.", "review_signal": "QA entries should name the validation performed; defensibility work leaves artifacts.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l609" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L611", "anchor": "l611", "name": "Preservation Order", "description": "Work ensuring preservation compliance with orders and requirements, including relief efforts and notice letters to other parties.", "usage": "Use for preservation order work.", "watch_for": "Order-compliance work duplicating the legal hold workstream under L612.", "review_signal": "The L611 and L612 boundary applied consistently within the matter.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l611" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L612", "anchor": "l612", "name": "Legal Hold", "description": "Drafting and distributing legal holds, tracking custodian responses, and releasing holds at matter conclusion.", "usage": "Use for the legal hold lifecycle.", "watch_for": "Manual hold tracking at professional rates where hold tooling automates the workflow, and holds never released, which quietly accrues preservation cost and risk.", "review_signal": "Hold administration cost per matter against your tooling, and release discipline as a tracked metric; unreleased holds are a cost and risk finding in themselves.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l612" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L619", "anchor": "l619", "name": "Quality Assurance and Control - Preservation", "description": "QA on preservation defensibility.", "usage": "Use for preservation-phase QA.", "watch_for": "Overlay-style QA entries.", "review_signal": "Named validation artifacts, as with L609.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l619" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L621", "anchor": "l621", "name": "Collection/Recovery", "description": "Collecting and recovering custodial and non-custodial data across sources, including forensic work such as decryption, password recovery, and imaging, plus selective collection and searches.", "usage": "Use for collection work.", "watch_for": "Full forensic imaging as the default where targeted collection meets the need, and per-custodian collection pricing varying widely across vendors.", "review_signal": "Per-custodian collection cost, and the targeted-versus-full-image decision made deliberately per source.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l621" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L622", "anchor": "l622", "name": "Media Costs", "description": "Actual costs of media used for preservation, collection, and production.", "usage": "Use for media cost tracking.", "watch_for": "Media charges persisting in vendor rate cards as legacy line items.", "review_signal": "Whether physical media was actually used; the category is increasingly vestigial.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l622" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L623", "anchor": "l623", "name": "Media Transfer, Receipt, and Inventory", "description": "Transferring, receiving, tracking, and inventorying media.", "usage": "Use for media logistics.", "watch_for": "Logistics at professional rates.", "review_signal": "Administrative staffing, per the overhead provisions in guidelines.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l623" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L629", "anchor": "l629", "name": "Quality Assurance and Control - Collection", "description": "QA on collection defensibility.", "usage": "Use for collection-phase QA.", "watch_for": "Overlay-style QA entries.", "review_signal": "Named validation artifacts.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l629" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L631", "anchor": "l631", "name": "Staging, Preparation and Processing", "description": "Staging and processing collected data, including culling, date filtering, keyword application, and early case assessment.", "usage": "Use for processing work, the per-gigabyte core of eDiscovery cost.", "watch_for": "Per-GB rates that have not tracked the market's steep price decline, and processing volumes unreduced by culling before the expensive stages.", "review_signal": "Per-GB unit price benchmarked across matters and vendors, and volume reduction ratios stage over stage; both numbers move real money.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l631" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L632", "anchor": "l632", "name": "Scanning - Hard Copy", "description": "Scanning paper documents, including OCR and metadata production.", "usage": "Use for paper digitization.", "watch_for": "Per-page scanning rates above commodity market pricing.", "review_signal": "Per-page unit cost; this is a commodity service.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l632" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L633", "anchor": "l633", "name": "Foreign Language Translation", "description": "Translation of electronic and paper documents.", "usage": "Use for translation in the processing context.", "watch_for": "Human translation applied where machine translation with targeted human review is the accepted workflow.", "review_signal": "The translation workflow decision and per-document unit cost, read with E125 where both appear.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l633" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L634", "anchor": "l634", "name": "Exception Handling", "description": "Handling documents requiring special processing, including decryption.", "usage": "Use for exception work.", "watch_for": "Exception volumes claimed without an exception report.", "review_signal": "Exception rates are reportable by every processing platform; ask for the report.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l634" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L639", "anchor": "l639", "name": "Quality Assurance and Control - Processing", "description": "QA on processing defensibility.", "usage": "Use for processing-phase QA.", "watch_for": "Overlay-style QA entries.", "review_signal": "Named validation artifacts.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l639" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L693", "anchor": "l693", "name": "Review Planning and Training", "description": "Developing review protocols and training reviewers before and during review.", "usage": "Use for review setup. Note the out-of-sequence code number within the review phase.", "watch_for": "Protocol development rebuilt per matter where a client playbook should carry forward.", "review_signal": "Setup cost per review over time against a maintained protocol library.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l693" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L651", "anchor": "l651", "name": "Hosting Costs", "description": "Database creation, data loading, online storage, user and license fees, and archiving for review platforms.", "usage": "Use for hosting charges.", "watch_for": "Monthly hosting continuing on dormant matters, per-GB hosting rates above current market, and user licenses exceeding the active review team.", "review_signal": "Hosting as a recurring line audited monthly: active matters, current rates, right-sized licenses, and archiving policy for dormant data. This is the most reliably recoverable spend in eDiscovery.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l651" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L652", "anchor": "l652", "name": "Objective and Subjective Coding", "description": "Unitizing and coding bibliographic information, including auto-coding.", "usage": "Use for coding work.", "watch_for": "Manual coding of fields auto-coding extracts reliably.", "review_signal": "Per-document coding cost and the manual-versus-auto split.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l652" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L653", "anchor": "l653", "name": "First Pass Document Review", "description": "First-level review for relevance, issue coding, tagging, and initial privilege calls.", "usage": "Use for first-pass review, the largest human cost in discovery.", "watch_for": "Attorney-rate first pass where staff attorney, contract reviewer, or technology-assisted review is the market staffing model, and documents-per-hour rates below defensible norms.", "review_signal": "Documents per hour and cost per document by reviewer tier; with TAR in play, also the machine-versus-human allocation. This is where L320, L650-series, and E118 tell one story.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l653" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L654", "anchor": "l654", "name": "Second Pass Document Review", "description": "QC review of first-pass coding decisions.", "usage": "Use for second-pass QC.", "watch_for": "Full re-review framed as QC sampling, which multiplies review cost.", "review_signal": "The QC sampling rate, stated in the protocol and verifiable in the platform metrics.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l654" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L655", "anchor": "l655", "name": "Privilege Review", "description": "Final privilege review and privilege log work.", "usage": "Use for privilege work.", "watch_for": "Log construction at senior rates where log automation and tiered staffing are standard, and log formats exceeding what the case requires.", "review_signal": "Cost per log entry, and the log format negotiated with opposing counsel before the work, since format drives cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l655" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L656", "anchor": "l656", "name": "Redaction", "description": "Developing redaction protocols and performing redactions.", "usage": "Use for redaction work.", "watch_for": "Manual redaction of pattern-based content that automated redaction handles.", "review_signal": "Per-document redaction cost and the automation split.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l656" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L659", "anchor": "l659", "name": "Quality Assurance and Control - Review", "description": "QA on review defensibility.", "usage": "Use for review-phase QA.", "watch_for": "Overlay-style QA entries.", "review_signal": "Named validation artifacts.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l659" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L660", "anchor": "l660", "name": "Analysis (NOS)", "description": "Analytical work enabling informed strategy and scope decisions from verified data. This phase carries no subcodes beyond the NOS.", "usage": "Use for discovery analytics and strategy analysis.", "watch_for": "Analysis blending into first-pass review time.", "review_signal": "The boundary with L653; analysis should produce strategy artifacts, review produces coded documents.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l660" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L671", "anchor": "l671", "name": "Conversion to Production Format", "description": "Converting documents to production format, including imaging, Bates stamping, endorsing, and load file preparation.", "usage": "Use for production processing.", "watch_for": "Full-image productions where native production is acceptable and cheaper, and per-page conversion pricing at legacy rates.", "review_signal": "The production format agreement drives this cost; negotiate format early and benchmark per-unit conversion pricing.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l671" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L679", "anchor": "l679", "name": "Quality Assurance and Control - Production", "description": "QA on production defensibility.", "usage": "Use for production-phase QA.", "watch_for": "Overlay-style QA entries.", "review_signal": "Named validation artifacts.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l679" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L680", "anchor": "l680", "name": "Presentation (NOS)", "description": "Preparing and displaying evidence at depositions, hearings, and trials, especially in native and near-native forms. This phase carries no subcodes beyond the NOS.", "usage": "Use for presentation-stage work.", "watch_for": "Overlap with L440 trial support and E117 exhibit vendor costs.", "review_signal": "Read with the trial preparation codes so presentation cost is counted once.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l680" }, { "set": "eDiscovery", "standard": "LOC (2011)", "code": "L690", "anchor": "l690", "name": "Project Management (NOS)", "description": "Supervising and managing work across the EDRM lifecycle, including meetings, work plans, budgets, forecasts, and reporting. This phase carries no subcodes beyond the NOS.", "usage": "Use for discovery project management.", "watch_for": "PM billed as a percentage-of-spend overlay, and PM layers duplicated between law firm and vendor for the same workstream.", "review_signal": "PM as a percentage of total discovery cost, benchmarked, with the firm-versus-vendor PM division defined once per matter.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/ediscovery/#l690" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G111", "anchor": "g111", "name": "Analyze the External Business Context", "description": "Identifying and analyzing external business context factors, including the legal, regulatory, and geopolitical climate.", "usage": "Analysis of the external business, legal, regulatory, and geopolitical environment and external stakeholder needs.", "watch_for": "Broad environmental scanning billed to a specific matter when it serves the whole compliance program.", "review_signal": "Whether context work is scoped to a program or a matter, since that decides where the cost belongs.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g111" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G112", "anchor": "g112", "name": "Analyze External Stakeholder and Influencer Needs", "description": "Identifying key external stakeholders and influencers, including issuing authorities, and analyzing their requirements.", "usage": "Analysis of the external business, legal, regulatory, and geopolitical environment and external stakeholder needs.", "watch_for": "Broad environmental scanning billed to a specific matter when it serves the whole compliance program.", "review_signal": "Whether context work is scoped to a program or a matter, since that decides where the cost belongs.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g112" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G121", "anchor": "g121", "name": "Define the Internal Context", "description": "Identifying key structures and assets defining the internal context, including entity creation, mergers, joint ventures, and dissolutions.", "usage": "Work on entity structures and internal alignment, including entity creation, M&A-driven changes, and entity maintenance.", "watch_for": "Routine entity maintenance billed at advisory rates.", "review_signal": "Entity-maintenance volume against a managed-service alternative; this is commodity work at scale.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g121" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G122", "anchor": "g122", "name": "Determine Changes Needed to Align the Internal Context and GRC Capability", "description": "Identifying internal changes affecting GRC capability design, including entity maintenance and governance resolutions.", "usage": "Work on entity structures and internal alignment, including entity creation, M&A-driven changes, and entity maintenance.", "watch_for": "Routine entity maintenance billed at advisory rates.", "review_signal": "Entity-maintenance volume against a managed-service alternative; this is commodity work at scale.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g122" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G131", "anchor": "g131", "name": "Analyze Ethical Culture", "description": "Analyzing the organizational climate and workforce mindsets on ethics, including ethics program requirements across jurisdictions.", "usage": "Analysis of ethical culture, leadership tone, risk culture, board engagement, governance style, and workforce engagement.", "watch_for": "Culture assessments repeated without connection to prior findings.", "review_signal": "Deliverable continuity across assessment cycles.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g131" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G132", "anchor": "g132", "name": "Analyze Ethical Leadership", "description": "Analyzing leadership tone at the top in words and conduct.", "usage": "Analysis of ethical culture, leadership tone, risk culture, board engagement, governance style, and workforce engagement.", "watch_for": "Culture assessments repeated without connection to prior findings.", "review_signal": "Deliverable continuity across assessment cycles.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g132" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G133", "anchor": "g133", "name": "Analyze Risk Culture", "description": "Analyzing how the workforce perceives and engages with risk.", "usage": "Analysis of ethical culture, leadership tone, risk culture, board engagement, governance style, and workforce engagement.", "watch_for": "Culture assessments repeated without connection to prior findings.", "review_signal": "Deliverable continuity across assessment cycles.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g133" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G134", "anchor": "g134", "name": "Analyze Board Involvement", "description": "Analyzing board engagement, fiduciary duties, and reporting of irregularities.", "usage": "Analysis of ethical culture, leadership tone, risk culture, board engagement, governance style, and workforce engagement.", "watch_for": "Culture assessments repeated without connection to prior findings.", "review_signal": "Deliverable continuity across assessment cycles.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g134" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G135", "anchor": "g135", "name": "Analyze Governance Culture and Management Style", "description": "Analyzing the existing approach to governing and managing the workforce, including delegations of authority.", "usage": "Analysis of ethical culture, leadership tone, risk culture, board engagement, governance style, and workforce engagement.", "watch_for": "Culture assessments repeated without connection to prior findings.", "review_signal": "Deliverable continuity across assessment cycles.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g135" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G136", "anchor": "g136", "name": "Analyze Workforce Engagement", "description": "Analyzing workforce satisfaction and engagement, including advice on benefits and leave programs.", "usage": "Analysis of ethical culture, leadership tone, risk culture, board engagement, governance style, and workforce engagement.", "watch_for": "Culture assessments repeated without connection to prior findings.", "review_signal": "Deliverable continuity across assessment cycles.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g136" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G141", "anchor": "g141", "name": "Define Mission and Vision", "description": "Creating formal mission and vision statements, including permissible entity purposes.", "usage": "Defining mission, vision, values, business objectives, risk appetite, indicators, and related commitments and communications.", "watch_for": "Strategy facilitation billed as legal work.", "review_signal": "The advisory-versus-legal boundary in the engagement letter.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g141" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G142", "anchor": "g142", "name": "Define Values", "description": "Creating formal core value statements, including post-merger integration advisory work.", "usage": "Defining mission, vision, values, business objectives, risk appetite, indicators, and related commitments and communications.", "watch_for": "Strategy facilitation billed as legal work.", "review_signal": "The advisory-versus-legal boundary in the engagement letter.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g142" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G143", "anchor": "g143", "name": "Define Business Objectives", "description": "Defining measurable business objectives aligned with mission, vision, and values.", "usage": "Defining mission, vision, values, business objectives, risk appetite, indicators, and related commitments and communications.", "watch_for": "Strategy facilitation billed as legal work.", "review_signal": "The advisory-versus-legal boundary in the engagement letter.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g143" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G144", "anchor": "g144", "name": "Define Risk Appetite and Decision Criteria", "description": "Defining risk appetite, tolerance, and decision criteria, including risk measurement advisory work.", "usage": "Defining mission, vision, values, business objectives, risk appetite, indicators, and related commitments and communications.", "watch_for": "Strategy facilitation billed as legal work.", "review_signal": "The advisory-versus-legal boundary in the engagement letter.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g144" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G145", "anchor": "g145", "name": "Define Indicators, Targets and Tolerances", "description": "Defining leading and lagging indicators, targets, and tolerances.", "usage": "Defining mission, vision, values, business objectives, risk appetite, indicators, and related commitments and communications.", "watch_for": "Strategy facilitation billed as legal work.", "review_signal": "The advisory-versus-legal boundary in the engagement letter.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g145" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G146", "anchor": "g146", "name": "Obtain Commitment to Mission, Vision, Values and Objectives", "description": "Securing management and board commitment, including approval of measurement programs.", "usage": "Defining mission, vision, values, business objectives, risk appetite, indicators, and related commitments and communications.", "watch_for": "Strategy facilitation billed as legal work.", "review_signal": "The advisory-versus-legal boundary in the engagement letter.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g146" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G147", "anchor": "g147", "name": "Communicate Mission, Vision and Values", "description": "Communicating mission, vision, and values, including legal review of corporate and shareholder communications.", "usage": "Defining mission, vision, values, business objectives, risk appetite, indicators, and related commitments and communications.", "watch_for": "Strategy facilitation billed as legal work.", "review_signal": "The advisory-versus-legal boundary in the engagement letter.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g147" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G211", "anchor": "g211", "name": "Define GRC Capability Scope", "description": "Defining the scope of the GRC capability or subsystem, including strategic and operational planning advice.", "usage": "Defining GRC capability scope, style, goals, and obtaining authorization.", "watch_for": "Program design cost recurring annually without capability change.", "review_signal": "Design spend against the maturity movement it produced.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g211" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G212", "anchor": "g212", "name": "Define GRC Capability Style and Goals", "description": "Defining capability style, goals, and relationship to business objectives.", "usage": "Defining GRC capability scope, style, goals, and obtaining authorization.", "watch_for": "Program design cost recurring annually without capability change.", "review_signal": "Design spend against the maturity movement it produced.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g212" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G213", "anchor": "g213", "name": "Obtain Commitment to the GRC Capability", "description": "Securing written authorization and high-level support, including approval presentations.", "usage": "Defining GRC capability scope, style, goals, and obtaining authorization.", "watch_for": "Program design cost recurring annually without capability change.", "review_signal": "Design spend against the maturity movement it produced.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g213" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G221", "anchor": "g221", "name": "Define and Enable GRC Capability Oversight Roles and Accountability", "description": "Defining oversight roles, responsibilities, and accountability, including job descriptions.", "usage": "Defining oversight, management, leadership, operational, and assurance roles for the GRC capability.", "watch_for": "Role-definition work rebilled per department rather than designed once.", "review_signal": "Reuse of role frameworks across the organization.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g221" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G222", "anchor": "g222", "name": "Define and Enable Management Roles and Accountability", "description": "Defining management roles and accountability for the capability.", "usage": "Defining oversight, management, leadership, operational, and assurance roles for the GRC capability.", "watch_for": "Role-definition work rebilled per department rather than designed once.", "review_signal": "Reuse of role frameworks across the organization.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g222" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G223", "anchor": "g223", "name": "Define and Enable Leadership Roles and Accountability", "description": "Defining leadership champion roles for the capability.", "usage": "Defining oversight, management, leadership, operational, and assurance roles for the GRC capability.", "watch_for": "Role-definition work rebilled per department rather than designed once.", "review_signal": "Reuse of role frameworks across the organization.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g223" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G224", "anchor": "g224", "name": "Define and Enable GRC Capability Operational Roles", "description": "Defining operational delivery roles, including background check requirements.", "usage": "Defining oversight, management, leadership, operational, and assurance roles for the GRC capability.", "watch_for": "Role-definition work rebilled per department rather than designed once.", "review_signal": "Reuse of role frameworks across the organization.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g224" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G225", "anchor": "g225", "name": "Define and Enable Assurance Roles and Accountability", "description": "Defining assurance roles such as audit leadership, including training on legal requirements.", "usage": "Defining oversight, management, leadership, operational, and assurance roles for the GRC capability.", "watch_for": "Role-definition work rebilled per department rather than designed once.", "review_signal": "Reuse of role frameworks across the organization.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g225" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G231", "anchor": "g231", "name": "Allocate Accountability to Individuals and Committees", "description": "Allocating roles to individuals and committees, including delegation of authority and segregation of duties documentation.", "usage": "Allocating accountability, defining GRC processes and their business integration, measurement approach, change management, and business case.", "watch_for": "Process documentation billed at counsel rates where consulting staffing fits.", "review_signal": "Staffing mix on process and workflow documentation.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g231" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G232", "anchor": "g232", "name": "Define GRC Capability Processes and Integrate with Business Processes", "description": "Defining GRC processes and synchronizing them with business workflows.", "usage": "Allocating accountability, defining GRC processes and their business integration, measurement approach, change management, and business case.", "watch_for": "Process documentation billed at counsel rates where consulting staffing fits.", "review_signal": "Staffing mix on process and workflow documentation.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g232" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G233", "anchor": "g233", "name": "Define Measurement and Evaluation Approach", "description": "Defining how capability effectiveness and efficiency will be measured.", "usage": "Allocating accountability, defining GRC processes and their business integration, measurement approach, change management, and business case.", "watch_for": "Process documentation billed at counsel rates where consulting staffing fits.", "review_signal": "Staffing mix on process and workflow documentation.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g233" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G234", "anchor": "g234", "name": "Define Organizational Change Management Approach", "description": "Defining the change readiness approach for people, process, and technology impacts.", "usage": "Allocating accountability, defining GRC processes and their business integration, measurement approach, change management, and business case.", "watch_for": "Process documentation billed at counsel rates where consulting staffing fits.", "review_signal": "Staffing mix on process and workflow documentation.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g234" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G235", "anchor": "g235", "name": "Develop, Maintain and Authorize a Business Case", "description": "Developing and presenting the GRC business case for authorization.", "usage": "Allocating accountability, defining GRC processes and their business integration, measurement approach, change management, and business case.", "watch_for": "Process documentation billed at counsel rates where consulting staffing fits.", "review_signal": "Staffing mix on process and workflow documentation.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g235" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G311", "anchor": "g311", "name": "Review Business Objectives, Processes and Resources", "description": "Reviewing key objectives, processes, and resources in capability scope.", "usage": "Identifying objectives, sources and forces, opportunities and threats, requirements, trends, and high-level risk and conformance analysis.", "watch_for": "Requirement-identification research repeated across matters for the same jurisdictions and products.", "review_signal": "Cross-matter reuse of regulatory research, the compliance version of the A102 portfolio pattern. Note the standard designates some analysis here as internal management opinion where external charges should not apply.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g311" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G312", "anchor": "g312", "name": "Identify External Sources and Forces", "description": "Identifying external sources and forces affecting objectives, including regulator enforcement trend profiling.", "usage": "Identifying objectives, sources and forces, opportunities and threats, requirements, trends, and high-level risk and conformance analysis.", "watch_for": "Requirement-identification research repeated across matters for the same jurisdictions and products.", "review_signal": "Cross-matter reuse of regulatory research, the compliance version of the A102 portfolio pattern. Note the standard designates some analysis here as internal management opinion where external charges should not apply.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g312" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G313", "anchor": "g313", "name": "Identify Internal Sources and Forces", "description": "Identifying internal sources and forces, including impacts of implemented business model changes.", "usage": "Identifying objectives, sources and forces, opportunities and threats, requirements, trends, and high-level risk and conformance analysis.", "watch_for": "Requirement-identification research repeated across matters for the same jurisdictions and products.", "review_signal": "Cross-matter reuse of regulatory research, the compliance version of the A102 portfolio pattern. Note the standard designates some analysis here as internal management opinion where external charges should not apply.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g313" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G314", "anchor": "g314", "name": "Identify Opportunities and Threats", "description": "Identifying opportunities and threats to objectives, including competitive IP and threat assessments.", "usage": "Identifying objectives, sources and forces, opportunities and threats, requirements, trends, and high-level risk and conformance analysis.", "watch_for": "Requirement-identification research repeated across matters for the same jurisdictions and products.", "review_signal": "Cross-matter reuse of regulatory research, the compliance version of the A102 portfolio pattern. Note the standard designates some analysis here as internal management opinion where external charges should not apply.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g314" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G315", "anchor": "g315", "name": "Identify Mandatory and Voluntary Requirements", "description": "Identifying mandatory and voluntary requirements from applicable sources, including new-jurisdiction and new-product research.", "usage": "Identifying objectives, sources and forces, opportunities and threats, requirements, trends, and high-level risk and conformance analysis.", "watch_for": "Requirement-identification research repeated across matters for the same jurisdictions and products.", "review_signal": "Cross-matter reuse of regulatory research, the compliance version of the A102 portfolio pattern. Note the standard designates some analysis here as internal management opinion where external charges should not apply.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g315" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G316", "anchor": "g316", "name": "Identify Interrelatedness and Trends", "description": "Analyzing how opportunities, threats, and requirements interrelate and trend across regulatory levels.", "usage": "Identifying objectives, sources and forces, opportunities and threats, requirements, trends, and high-level risk and conformance analysis.", "watch_for": "Requirement-identification research repeated across matters for the same jurisdictions and products.", "review_signal": "Cross-matter reuse of regulatory research, the compliance version of the A102 portfolio pattern. Note the standard designates some analysis here as internal management opinion where external charges should not apply.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g316" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G317", "anchor": "g317", "name": "Conduct High Level Analysis of Risk/Reward", "description": "High-level analysis of inherent, current, and planned residual risk and reward.", "usage": "Identifying objectives, sources and forces, opportunities and threats, requirements, trends, and high-level risk and conformance analysis.", "watch_for": "Requirement-identification research repeated across matters for the same jurisdictions and products.", "review_signal": "Cross-matter reuse of regulatory research, the compliance version of the A102 portfolio pattern. Note the standard designates some analysis here as internal management opinion where external charges should not apply.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g317" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G318", "anchor": "g318", "name": "Conduct High Level Analysis of Requirements Impact/Conformance", "description": "High-level conformance and impact analysis, including industry-level exposure opinions.", "usage": "Identifying objectives, sources and forces, opportunities and threats, requirements, trends, and high-level risk and conformance analysis.", "watch_for": "Requirement-identification research repeated across matters for the same jurisdictions and products.", "review_signal": "Cross-matter reuse of regulatory research, the compliance version of the A102 portfolio pattern. Note the standard designates some analysis here as internal management opinion where external charges should not apply.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g318" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G319", "anchor": "g319", "name": "Assign Accountability to Monitor Changes", "description": "Assigning monitoring accountability for sources of change, including establishing monitoring service relationships.", "usage": "Identifying objectives, sources and forces, opportunities and threats, requirements, trends, and high-level risk and conformance analysis.", "watch_for": "Requirement-identification research repeated across matters for the same jurisdictions and products.", "review_signal": "Cross-matter reuse of regulatory research, the compliance version of the A102 portfolio pattern. Note the standard designates some analysis here as internal management opinion where external charges should not apply.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g319" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G321", "anchor": "g321", "name": "Analyze Approach to Requirements", "description": "Analyzing current and planned actions and controls addressing requirements, including cost.", "usage": "Analyzing approaches to requirements and risk, current controls, residual risk, and prioritization.", "watch_for": "External charges on items the standard designates as internal management opinions (G324 is flagged in the standard).", "review_signal": "The standard's own internal-opinion designations are enforceable review rules.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g321" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G322", "anchor": "g322", "name": "Analyze Inherent Risk/Reward", "description": "Analyzing threat and opportunity effects without regard to current controls.", "usage": "Analyzing approaches to requirements and risk, current controls, residual risk, and prioritization.", "watch_for": "External charges on items the standard designates as internal management opinions (G324 is flagged in the standard).", "review_signal": "The standard's own internal-opinion designations are enforceable review rules.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g322" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G323", "anchor": "g323", "name": "Analyze Current Approaches to Risk/Reward", "description": "Analyzing presence and effectiveness of current controls, including sufficiency opinions.", "usage": "Analyzing approaches to requirements and risk, current controls, residual risk, and prioritization.", "watch_for": "External charges on items the standard designates as internal management opinions (G324 is flagged in the standard).", "review_signal": "The standard's own internal-opinion designations are enforceable review rules.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g323" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G324", "anchor": "g324", "name": "Determine Current Residual Risk/Reward", "description": "Determining residual risk given current controls. Designated internal management opinion; external charges should not apply.", "usage": "Analyzing approaches to requirements and risk, current controls, residual risk, and prioritization.", "watch_for": "External charges on items the standard designates as internal management opinions (G324 is flagged in the standard).", "review_signal": "The standard's own internal-opinion designations are enforceable review rules.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g324" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G325", "anchor": "g325", "name": "Prioritize Threats, Opportunities and Requirements", "description": "Prioritizing and categorizing for approach and resource allocation.", "usage": "Analyzing approaches to requirements and risk, current controls, residual risk, and prioritization.", "watch_for": "External charges on items the standard designates as internal management opinions (G324 is flagged in the standard).", "review_signal": "The standard's own internal-opinion designations are enforceable review rules.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g325" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G331", "anchor": "g331", "name": "Explore Options to Address Requirements", "description": "Exploring additional actions and controls where conformance is unacceptable or suboptimal.", "usage": "Exploring options, determining planned residual risk, addressing high risk, developing indicators, and building the integrated plan.", "watch_for": "Option-exploration engagements without decision outputs.", "review_signal": "Each planning deliverable should end in a decision artifact. G333 and G334 are designated internal opinions in the standard.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g331" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G332", "anchor": "g332", "name": "Explore Options to Address Risk/Reward", "description": "Exploring alternative controls where residual risk is unacceptable.", "usage": "Exploring options, determining planned residual risk, addressing high risk, developing indicators, and building the integrated plan.", "watch_for": "Option-exploration engagements without decision outputs.", "review_signal": "Each planning deliverable should end in a decision artifact. G333 and G334 are designated internal opinions in the standard.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g332" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G333", "anchor": "g333", "name": "Determine Planned Residual Risk/Reward and Conformance", "description": "Determining post-implementation residual levels. Designated internal management opinion; external charges should not apply.", "usage": "Exploring options, determining planned residual risk, addressing high risk, developing indicators, and building the integrated plan.", "watch_for": "Option-exploration engagements without decision outputs.", "review_signal": "Each planning deliverable should end in a decision artifact. G333 and G334 are designated internal opinions in the standard.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g333" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G334", "anchor": "g334", "name": "Address Inherently High Risk", "description": "Identifying controls specifically addressing inherently high risk. Designated internal management opinion; external charges should not apply.", "usage": "Exploring options, determining planned residual risk, addressing high risk, developing indicators, and building the integrated plan.", "watch_for": "Option-exploration engagements without decision outputs.", "review_signal": "Each planning deliverable should end in a decision artifact. G333 and G334 are designated internal opinions in the standard.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g334" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G335", "anchor": "g335", "name": "Develop Key Indicators", "description": "Developing performance, risk, and conformance indicators, including monitoring implementation.", "usage": "Exploring options, determining planned residual risk, addressing high risk, developing indicators, and building the integrated plan.", "watch_for": "Option-exploration engagements without decision outputs.", "review_signal": "Each planning deliverable should end in a decision artifact. G333 and G334 are designated internal opinions in the standard.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g335" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G336", "anchor": "g336", "name": "Develop Integrated Plan", "description": "Developing the integrated plan to govern, assure, and manage performance, risk, and compliance.", "usage": "Exploring options, determining planned residual risk, addressing high risk, developing indicators, and building the integrated plan.", "watch_for": "Option-exploration engagements without decision outputs.", "review_signal": "Each planning deliverable should end in a decision artifact. G333 and G334 are designated internal opinions in the standard.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g336" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G411", "anchor": "g411", "name": "Establish Proactive Management Actions and Controls", "description": "Establishing proactive controls that incent desirable events, including contract template and playbook development.", "usage": "Establishing proactive management, process, human capital, technology, and physical controls, including contract templates and playbooks.", "watch_for": "Template and playbook development billed to individual matters rather than the program.", "review_signal": "Program-level assets funded at program level; G411 explicitly covers template and playbook development.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g411" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G412", "anchor": "g412", "name": "Establish Preventive Process Controls", "description": "Establishing preventive process controls, including departmental procedures for consistent provider engagement.", "usage": "Establishing proactive management, process, human capital, technology, and physical controls, including contract templates and playbooks.", "watch_for": "Template and playbook development billed to individual matters rather than the program.", "review_signal": "Program-level assets funded at program level; G411 explicitly covers template and playbook development.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g412" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G413", "anchor": "g413", "name": "Establish Preventive Human Capital Controls", "description": "Establishing preventive workforce controls, including role design and background check advice.", "usage": "Establishing proactive management, process, human capital, technology, and physical controls, including contract templates and playbooks.", "watch_for": "Template and playbook development billed to individual matters rather than the program.", "review_signal": "Program-level assets funded at program level; G411 explicitly covers template and playbook development.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g413" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G414", "anchor": "g414", "name": "Establish Preventive Technology Controls", "description": "Establishing preventive technology controls, including access control configuration advice.", "usage": "Establishing proactive management, process, human capital, technology, and physical controls, including contract templates and playbooks.", "watch_for": "Template and playbook development billed to individual matters rather than the program.", "review_signal": "Program-level assets funded at program level; G411 explicitly covers template and playbook development.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g414" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G415", "anchor": "g415", "name": "Establish Preventive Physical Controls", "description": "Establishing preventive physical controls such as badging and access systems.", "usage": "Establishing proactive management, process, human capital, technology, and physical controls, including contract templates and playbooks.", "watch_for": "Template and playbook development billed to individual matters rather than the program.", "review_signal": "Program-level assets funded at program level; G411 explicitly covers template and playbook development.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g415" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G421", "anchor": "g421", "name": "Develop the Code of Conduct", "description": "Developing code content with stakeholders, covering mission, values, and key policies.", "usage": "Developing, implementing, and managing the code of conduct and ethical decision-making guidelines.", "watch_for": "Full code rewrites where update cycles suffice.", "review_signal": "Cost per code refresh cycle against the scope of change.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g421" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G422", "anchor": "g422", "name": "Implement and Manage the Code of Conduct", "description": "Distributing, certifying, and maintaining the code, including training services.", "usage": "Developing, implementing, and managing the code of conduct and ethical decision-making guidelines.", "watch_for": "Full code rewrites where update cycles suffice.", "review_signal": "Cost per code refresh cycle against the scope of change.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g422" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G423", "anchor": "g423", "name": "Develop and Implement Ethical Decision-Making Guidelines", "description": "Developing and implementing decision-making guidelines consistent with organizational values.", "usage": "Developing, implementing, and managing the code of conduct and ethical decision-making guidelines.", "watch_for": "Full code rewrites where update cycles suffice.", "review_signal": "Cost per code refresh cycle against the scope of change.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g423" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G431", "anchor": "g431", "name": "Establish Policy Structure", "description": "Establishing the organizing structure for policies supporting the capability.", "usage": "Establishing policy structure, developing policies, and implementing and managing them.", "watch_for": "Per-policy drafting costs varying widely for policies of similar scope.", "review_signal": "Cost per policy as a unit benchmark across the program.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g431" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G432", "anchor": "g432", "name": "Develop Policies", "description": "Developing preventative and directive policy content.", "usage": "Establishing policy structure, developing policies, and implementing and managing them.", "watch_for": "Per-policy drafting costs varying widely for policies of similar scope.", "review_signal": "Cost per policy as a unit benchmark across the program.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g432" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G433", "anchor": "g433", "name": "Implement and Manage Policies", "description": "Implementing, communicating, and maintaining policies.", "usage": "Establishing policy structure, developing policies, and implementing and managing them.", "watch_for": "Per-policy drafting costs varying widely for policies of similar scope.", "review_signal": "Cost per policy as a unit benchmark across the program.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g433" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G441", "anchor": "g441", "name": "Define an Awareness and Education Plan", "description": "Developing the enterprise education and awareness plan.", "usage": "Awareness and education planning, curriculum, content, delivery, helpline, and integrated support.", "watch_for": "Custom content development where licensed content meets the need, and helpline services priced without volume data.", "review_signal": "Build-versus-license decisions on content, and helpline cost per contact.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g441" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G442", "anchor": "g442", "name": "Define a Curriculum Plan", "description": "Developing role-specific curricula for board, management, workforce, and extended enterprise.", "usage": "Awareness and education planning, curriculum, content, delivery, helpline, and integrated support.", "watch_for": "Custom content development where licensed content meets the need, and helpline services priced without volume data.", "review_signal": "Build-versus-license decisions on content, and helpline cost per contact.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g442" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G443", "anchor": "g443", "name": "Develop or Acquire Content", "description": "Developing or acquiring training content and updating existing materials.", "usage": "Awareness and education planning, curriculum, content, delivery, helpline, and integrated support.", "watch_for": "Custom content development where licensed content meets the need, and helpline services priced without volume data.", "review_signal": "Build-versus-license decisions on content, and helpline cost per contact.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g443" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G444", "anchor": "g444", "name": "Implement Education", "description": "Delivering education programs to learning objectives.", "usage": "Awareness and education planning, curriculum, content, delivery, helpline, and integrated support.", "watch_for": "Custom content development where licensed content meets the need, and helpline services priced without volume data.", "review_signal": "Build-versus-license decisions on content, and helpline cost per contact.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g444" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G445", "anchor": "g445", "name": "Provide Helpline", "description": "Establishing guidance channels, including outsourced helpline services.", "usage": "Awareness and education planning, curriculum, content, delivery, helpline, and integrated support.", "watch_for": "Custom content development where licensed content meets the need, and helpline services priced without volume data.", "review_signal": "Build-versus-license decisions on content, and helpline cost per contact.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g445" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G446", "anchor": "g446", "name": "Provide Integrated Support", "description": "Establishing in-workflow guidance and self-help resources.", "usage": "Awareness and education planning, curriculum, content, delivery, helpline, and integrated support.", "watch_for": "Custom content development where licensed content meets the need, and helpline services priced without volume data.", "review_signal": "Build-versus-license decisions on content, and helpline cost per contact.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g446" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G451", "anchor": "g451", "name": "Hire and Promote Based on Conduct Expectations", "description": "Embedding conduct expectations in job design, career paths, and reviews.", "usage": "Conduct-aligned hiring, compensation, and rewards program design.", "watch_for": "Compensation design work overlapping regular employment counsel scope.", "review_signal": "The advisor-boundary definition, as with B220.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g451" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G452", "anchor": "g452", "name": "Develop Compensation and Remuneration that Consider Conduct Expectations", "description": "Designing compensation aligned with desired conduct.", "usage": "Conduct-aligned hiring, compensation, and rewards program design.", "watch_for": "Compensation design work overlapping regular employment counsel scope.", "review_signal": "The advisor-boundary definition, as with B220.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g452" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G453", "anchor": "g453", "name": "Develop Rewards Programs", "description": "Establishing recognition programs for conduct and capability contributions.", "usage": "Conduct-aligned hiring, compensation, and rewards program design.", "watch_for": "Compensation design work overlapping regular employment counsel scope.", "review_signal": "The advisor-boundary definition, as with B220.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g453" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G461", "anchor": "g461", "name": "Understand Stakeholders", "description": "Researching stakeholder organizations and individuals, including enforcement temperament profiling.", "usage": "Stakeholder analysis, relations planning, authority tracking, and participation in mandate development.", "watch_for": "Regulatory monitoring subscriptions billed as bespoke tracking work.", "review_signal": "Monitoring service costs against subscription alternatives; G463 explicitly covers tracking services and feeds.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g461" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G462", "anchor": "g462", "name": "Develop Stakeholder Relations Plans", "description": "Developing relations and communications plans per constituency.", "usage": "Stakeholder analysis, relations planning, authority tracking, and participation in mandate development.", "watch_for": "Regulatory monitoring subscriptions billed as bespoke tracking work.", "review_signal": "Monitoring service costs against subscription alternatives; G463 explicitly covers tracking services and feeds.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g462" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G463", "anchor": "g463", "name": "Identify and Track Activity by Requirement Issuing Authorities", "description": "Tracking significant issuing authorities, including monitoring services and feeds.", "usage": "Stakeholder analysis, relations planning, authority tracking, and participation in mandate development.", "watch_for": "Regulatory monitoring subscriptions billed as bespoke tracking work.", "review_signal": "Monitoring service costs against subscription alternatives; G463 explicitly covers tracking services and feeds.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g463" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G464", "anchor": "g464", "name": "Comment on Planned or Proposed Items", "description": "Participating in mandate and standards development through comment pathways.", "usage": "Stakeholder analysis, relations planning, authority tracking, and participation in mandate development.", "watch_for": "Regulatory monitoring subscriptions billed as bespoke tracking work.", "review_signal": "Monitoring service costs against subscription alternatives; G463 explicitly covers tracking services and feeds.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g464" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G465", "anchor": "g465", "name": "Propose Mandates, Standards or Guidance", "description": "Proactively proposing mandates and standards to issuing authorities.", "usage": "Stakeholder analysis, relations planning, authority tracking, and participation in mandate development.", "watch_for": "Regulatory monitoring subscriptions billed as bespoke tracking work.", "review_signal": "Monitoring service costs against subscription alternatives; G463 explicitly covers tracking services and feeds.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g465" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G471", "anchor": "g471", "name": "Assess Risk Financing Need and Options", "description": "Assessing financing needs and options across insurance, captives, and contractual risk transfer.", "usage": "Assessing, designing, and implementing risk financing including insurance, captives, and indemnification structures.", "watch_for": "Placement-adjacent work where broker services already cover it.", "review_signal": "The counsel-versus-broker division on risk financing. G472 is a designated internal opinion.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g471" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G472", "anchor": "g472", "name": "Set Risk Financing Objectives", "description": "Setting risk sharing objectives and limits. Designated internal management opinion; external charges should not apply.", "usage": "Assessing, designing, and implementing risk financing including insurance, captives, and indemnification structures.", "watch_for": "Placement-adjacent work where broker services already cover it.", "review_signal": "The counsel-versus-broker division on risk financing. G472 is a designated internal opinion.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g472" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G473", "anchor": "g473", "name": "Design Risk Financing Strategy", "description": "Designing the portfolio of risk-sharing instruments.", "usage": "Assessing, designing, and implementing risk financing including insurance, captives, and indemnification structures.", "watch_for": "Placement-adjacent work where broker services already cover it.", "review_signal": "The counsel-versus-broker division on risk financing. G472 is a designated internal opinion.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g473" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G474", "anchor": "g474", "name": "Implement Risk Financing Strategy", "description": "Implementing instruments and acquiring insurance.", "usage": "Assessing, designing, and implementing risk financing including insurance, captives, and indemnification structures.", "watch_for": "Placement-adjacent work where broker services already cover it.", "review_signal": "The counsel-versus-broker division on risk financing. G472 is a designated internal opinion.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g474" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G511", "anchor": "g511", "name": "Establish Detective Actions and Controls", "description": "Establishing detective controls such as fraud reporting and vendor auditing programs.", "usage": "Establishing detective management, process, human capital, physical, and technology controls, and consolidating findings.", "watch_for": "Control design rebilled per business unit where enterprise design applies.", "review_signal": "Enterprise reuse of control frameworks.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g511" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G512", "anchor": "g512", "name": "Establish Detective Process Controls", "description": "Establishing process controls detecting adverse events, including transaction monitoring design.", "usage": "Establishing detective management, process, human capital, physical, and technology controls, and consolidating findings.", "watch_for": "Control design rebilled per business unit where enterprise design applies.", "review_signal": "Enterprise reuse of control frameworks.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g512" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G513", "anchor": "g513", "name": "Establish Detective Human Capital Controls", "description": "Establishing workforce reporting controls, including exit interview programs.", "usage": "Establishing detective management, process, human capital, physical, and technology controls, and consolidating findings.", "watch_for": "Control design rebilled per business unit where enterprise design applies.", "review_signal": "Enterprise reuse of control frameworks.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g513" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G514", "anchor": "g514", "name": "Establish Detective Physical Controls", "description": "Installing surveillance and physical detection controls.", "usage": "Establishing detective management, process, human capital, physical, and technology controls, and consolidating findings.", "watch_for": "Control design rebilled per business unit where enterprise design applies.", "review_signal": "Enterprise reuse of control frameworks.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g514" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G515", "anchor": "g515", "name": "Establish Detective Technology Controls", "description": "Implementing automated detection technology controls.", "usage": "Establishing detective management, process, human capital, physical, and technology controls, and consolidating findings.", "watch_for": "Control design rebilled per business unit where enterprise design applies.", "review_signal": "Enterprise reuse of control frameworks.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g515" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G516", "anchor": "g516", "name": "Consolidate and Analyze Control Findings", "description": "Consolidating detection information to identify patterns.", "usage": "Establishing detective management, process, human capital, physical, and technology controls, and consolidating findings.", "watch_for": "Control design rebilled per business unit where enterprise design applies.", "review_signal": "Enterprise reuse of control frameworks.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g516" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G521", "anchor": "g521", "name": "Capture Notifications", "description": "Implementing notification systems alerting the organization to suspected noncompliance.", "usage": "Hotline and notification system establishment, routing, and data protection compliance.", "watch_for": "Hotline data-protection advice repeated per jurisdiction without a consolidated framework.", "review_signal": "Jurisdiction-framework reuse; the standard designates routing (G523) as internal.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g521" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G523", "anchor": "g523", "name": "Filter and Route Notifications", "description": "Vetting and routing notifications for handling. Designated internal management opinion; external charges should not apply.", "usage": "Hotline and notification system establishment, routing, and data protection compliance.", "watch_for": "Hotline data-protection advice repeated per jurisdiction without a consolidated framework.", "review_signal": "Jurisdiction-framework reuse; the standard designates routing (G523) as internal.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g523" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G524", "anchor": "g524", "name": "Adhere to Data Protection Requirements", "description": "Ensuring hotline pathways comply with local data protection requirements, including anonymity rules.", "usage": "Hotline and notification system establishment, routing, and data protection compliance.", "watch_for": "Hotline data-protection advice repeated per jurisdiction without a consolidated framework.", "review_signal": "Jurisdiction-framework reuse; the standard designates routing (G523) as internal.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g524" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G531", "anchor": "g531", "name": "Establish Multiple Pathways to Obtain Workforce and Stakeholder Views", "description": "Defining channels for workforce and stakeholder views, including outside-facilitated interviews.", "usage": "Surveys, self-assessments, observation programs, and reporting of findings.", "watch_for": "Survey programs run bespoke each cycle.", "review_signal": "Cost per inquiry cycle over time.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g531" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G532", "anchor": "g532", "name": "Establish an Organization-Wide Integrated Approach to Surveys", "description": "Establishing integrated survey approaches reducing subject burden.", "usage": "Surveys, self-assessments, observation programs, and reporting of findings.", "watch_for": "Survey programs run bespoke each cycle.", "review_signal": "Cost per inquiry cycle over time.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g532" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G533", "anchor": "g533", "name": "Establish an Integrated Approach to Self-Assessments", "description": "Integrating GRC self-assessment with other assessment programs.", "usage": "Surveys, self-assessments, observation programs, and reporting of findings.", "watch_for": "Survey programs run bespoke each cycle.", "review_signal": "Cost per inquiry cycle over time.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g533" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G534", "anchor": "g534", "name": "Gather Information Through Observations and Conversations", "description": "Informal information gathering through observation, focus groups, and interviews.", "usage": "Surveys, self-assessments, observation programs, and reporting of findings.", "watch_for": "Survey programs run bespoke each cycle.", "review_signal": "Cost per inquiry cycle over time.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g534" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G535", "anchor": "g535", "name": "Report Information and Findings", "description": "Reporting aggregated inquiry findings to management.", "usage": "Surveys, self-assessments, observation programs, and reporting of findings.", "watch_for": "Survey programs run bespoke each cycle.", "review_signal": "Cost per inquiry cycle over time.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g535" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G611", "anchor": "g611", "name": "Establish Responsive Actions and Controls", "description": "Establishing responsive controls including media relations and internal communications programs.", "usage": "Establishing responsive and corrective process, human capital, technology, and physical controls, and monitoring them.", "watch_for": "Corrective control design blending into the remediation of specific incidents under G650.", "review_signal": "The program-versus-incident boundary, which decides whether cost is capability investment or matter cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g611" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G612", "anchor": "g612", "name": "Establish Corrective Process Controls", "description": "Establishing corrective process controls to stop, slow, and recover from adverse events.", "usage": "Establishing responsive and corrective process, human capital, technology, and physical controls, and monitoring them.", "watch_for": "Corrective control design blending into the remediation of specific incidents under G650.", "review_signal": "The program-versus-incident boundary, which decides whether cost is capability investment or matter cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g612" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G613", "anchor": "g613", "name": "Establish Corrective Human Capital Controls", "description": "Establishing corrective workforce controls such as authority suspension procedures.", "usage": "Establishing responsive and corrective process, human capital, technology, and physical controls, and monitoring them.", "watch_for": "Corrective control design blending into the remediation of specific incidents under G650.", "review_signal": "The program-versus-incident boundary, which decides whether cost is capability investment or matter cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g613" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G614", "anchor": "g614", "name": "Establish Corrective Technology Controls", "description": "Establishing corrective technology controls including access restrictions.", "usage": "Establishing responsive and corrective process, human capital, technology, and physical controls, and monitoring them.", "watch_for": "Corrective control design blending into the remediation of specific incidents under G650.", "review_signal": "The program-versus-incident boundary, which decides whether cost is capability investment or matter cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g614" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G615", "anchor": "g615", "name": "Establish Corrective Physical Controls", "description": "Establishing corrective physical controls including lockdown procedures.", "usage": "Establishing responsive and corrective process, human capital, technology, and physical controls, and monitoring them.", "watch_for": "Corrective control design blending into the remediation of specific incidents under G650.", "review_signal": "The program-versus-incident boundary, which decides whether cost is capability investment or matter cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g615" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G616", "anchor": "g616", "name": "Monitor and Report Corrective Controls", "description": "Monitoring and reporting corrective control progress.", "usage": "Establishing responsive and corrective process, human capital, technology, and physical controls, and monitoring them.", "watch_for": "Corrective control design blending into the remediation of specific incidents under G650.", "review_signal": "The program-versus-incident boundary, which decides whether cost is capability investment or matter cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g616" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G621", "anchor": "g621", "name": "Define the Inquiry and Investigation Process", "description": "Establishing defensible inquiry and investigation procedures and analyzing complaint trends.", "usage": "Defining investigation process, preparing, conducting, and reporting internal investigations.", "watch_for": "Investigation scope expanding without checkpoint approvals, blended eDiscovery costs without unit visibility, and privilege posture decisions made implicitly. Investigations are the highest-variance spend category in GRC.", "review_signal": "Phase budgets at investigation initiation with checkpoint reviews, eDiscovery unit economics read through the L600-series lens, and cost per investigation by matter type as the portfolio benchmark. This sub-phase deserves the most review attention in the entire set.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g621" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G622", "anchor": "g622", "name": "Prepare to Investigate", "description": "Engaging advisors, counsel, investigators, and consultants, including scoping and authorization.", "usage": "Defining investigation process, preparing, conducting, and reporting internal investigations.", "watch_for": "Investigation scope expanding without checkpoint approvals, blended eDiscovery costs without unit visibility, and privilege posture decisions made implicitly. Investigations are the highest-variance spend category in GRC.", "review_signal": "Phase budgets at investigation initiation with checkpoint reviews, eDiscovery unit economics read through the L600-series lens, and cost per investigation by matter type as the portfolio benchmark. This sub-phase deserves the most review attention in the entire set.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g622" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G623", "anchor": "g623", "name": "Conduct Investigations", "description": "Conducting investigations per plan while maintaining privilege, including documentation and eDiscovery services.", "usage": "Defining investigation process, preparing, conducting, and reporting internal investigations.", "watch_for": "Investigation scope expanding without checkpoint approvals, blended eDiscovery costs without unit visibility, and privilege posture decisions made implicitly. Investigations are the highest-variance spend category in GRC.", "review_signal": "Phase budgets at investigation initiation with checkpoint reviews, eDiscovery unit economics read through the L600-series lens, and cost per investigation by matter type as the portfolio benchmark. This sub-phase deserves the most review attention in the entire set.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g623" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G624", "anchor": "g624", "name": "Report Results of Investigations", "description": "Communicating results to management, oversight bodies, and regulators as appropriate.", "usage": "Defining investigation process, preparing, conducting, and reporting internal investigations.", "watch_for": "Investigation scope expanding without checkpoint approvals, blended eDiscovery costs without unit visibility, and privilege posture decisions made implicitly. Investigations are the highest-variance spend category in GRC.", "review_signal": "Phase budgets at investigation initiation with checkpoint reviews, eDiscovery unit economics read through the L600-series lens, and cost per investigation by matter type as the portfolio benchmark. This sub-phase deserves the most review attention in the entire set.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g624" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G631", "anchor": "g631", "name": "Prepare for and Address Third Party Inquiries", "description": "Identifying and responding to third-party questions, including engaging response advisors.", "usage": "Preparing for and managing regulator and other third-party investigations, including team selection and response.", "watch_for": "Response teams staffed beyond the matter's regulatory exposure, and duplicated workstreams between regular counsel and specialist investigation counsel.", "review_signal": "Team composition against exposure, and the division of labor defined at engagement. G632 is a designated internal item.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g631" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G632", "anchor": "g632", "name": "Prepare to Identify Third Party Investigations", "description": "Establishing methods to surface initiated third-party investigations. Designated internal management opinion; external charges should not apply.", "usage": "Preparing for and managing regulator and other third-party investigations, including team selection and response.", "watch_for": "Response teams staffed beyond the matter's regulatory exposure, and duplicated workstreams between regular counsel and specialist investigation counsel.", "review_signal": "Team composition against exposure, and the division of labor defined at engagement. G632 is a designated internal item.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g632" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G633", "anchor": "g633", "name": "Prepare to Manage Third Party Investigations", "description": "Establishing policies and responsibility for managing investigation types, including media relations.", "usage": "Preparing for and managing regulator and other third-party investigations, including team selection and response.", "watch_for": "Response teams staffed beyond the matter's regulatory exposure, and duplicated workstreams between regular counsel and specialist investigation counsel.", "review_signal": "Team composition against exposure, and the division of labor defined at engagement. G632 is a designated internal item.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g633" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G634", "anchor": "g634", "name": "Prepare to Select Team for Third-Party Investigation", "description": "Establishing team selection procedures, including preferred provider arrangements.", "usage": "Preparing for and managing regulator and other third-party investigations, including team selection and response.", "watch_for": "Response teams staffed beyond the matter's regulatory exposure, and duplicated workstreams between regular counsel and specialist investigation counsel.", "review_signal": "Team composition against exposure, and the division of labor defined at engagement. G632 is a designated internal item.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g634" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G635", "anchor": "g635", "name": "Prepare to Respond to Specific Third-Party Investigations", "description": "Establishing response development procedures for specific investigations.", "usage": "Preparing for and managing regulator and other third-party investigations, including team selection and response.", "watch_for": "Response teams staffed beyond the matter's regulatory exposure, and duplicated workstreams between regular counsel and specialist investigation counsel.", "review_signal": "Team composition against exposure, and the division of labor defined at engagement. G632 is a designated internal item.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g635" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G641", "anchor": "g641", "name": "Develop Crisis Response and Continuity Plans", "description": "Developing crisis response, continuity, and disaster recovery plans.", "usage": "Crisis and continuity planning, team identification, testing, and plan coordination.", "watch_for": "Plan development without testing follow-through, since untested plans are the common failure mode.", "review_signal": "The plan-to-test cost ratio; G643 testing spend validates G641 planning spend.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g641" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G642", "anchor": "g642", "name": "Identify Crisis Readiness and Response Teams", "description": "Defining preparedness and response team personnel, including pre-identified external advisors.", "usage": "Crisis and continuity planning, team identification, testing, and plan coordination.", "watch_for": "Plan development without testing follow-through, since untested plans are the common failure mode.", "review_signal": "The plan-to-test cost ratio; G643 testing spend validates G641 planning spend.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g642" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G643", "anchor": "g643", "name": "Test Plans and Procedures", "description": "Testing and evaluating crisis plans and procedures.", "usage": "Crisis and continuity planning, team identification, testing, and plan coordination.", "watch_for": "Plan development without testing follow-through, since untested plans are the common failure mode.", "review_signal": "The plan-to-test cost ratio; G643 testing spend validates G641 planning spend.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g643" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G644", "anchor": "g644", "name": "Coordinate Plans", "description": "Reconciling continuity and response plans across facilities.", "usage": "Crisis and continuity planning, team identification, testing, and plan coordination.", "watch_for": "Plan development without testing follow-through, since untested plans are the common failure mode.", "review_signal": "The plan-to-test cost ratio; G643 testing spend validates G641 planning spend.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g644" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G651", "anchor": "g651", "name": "Remediate the GRC Capability", "description": "Resolving reported issues, documenting outcomes, and proposing capability improvements from root-cause patterns.", "usage": "Resolving reported issues, documenting outcomes, proposing capability changes, and individual discipline.", "watch_for": "Remediation advice detached from root-cause pattern analysis.", "review_signal": "Remediation deliverables should propose capability changes, not just close incidents. G652 discipline is a designated internal action.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g651" }, { "set": "GRC", "standard": "LOC (2015)", "code": "G652", "anchor": "g652", "name": "Discipline Individuals", "description": "Disciplining individuals for misconduct. Designated internal management action; external charges should not apply.", "usage": "Resolving reported issues, documenting outcomes, proposing capability changes, and individual discipline.", "watch_for": "Remediation advice detached from root-cause pattern analysis.", "review_signal": "Remediation deliverables should propose capability changes, not just close incidents. G652 discipline is a designated internal action.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/grc/#g652" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MA00", "anchor": "ma00", "name": "Preliminary Matters", "description": "Letters of intent, confidentiality and exclusivity agreements, break fee arrangements, information memoranda, and auction process work.", "usage": "Use for pre-agreement deal work.", "watch_for": "Preliminary phase cost on deals that die early, which is the natural cost of deal flow but deserves portfolio tracking.", "review_signal": "Preliminary spend on dead deals as a portfolio ratio; it prices your deal pipeline's legal cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#ma00" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MB00", "anchor": "mb00", "name": "Purchase/Merger Agreement", "description": "Drafting, negotiating, and amending the purchase or merger agreement, including specialist input on terms.", "usage": "Use for the principal agreement workstream.", "watch_for": "Turn volume on provisions with settled market positions, the P500 pattern at deal scale.", "review_signal": "Rounds per agreement and hours per turn, benchmarked across comparable deals.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#mb00" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MC00", "anchor": "mc00", "name": "Due Diligence and Disclosure Schedules", "description": "Document review, management presentations, diligence questionnaires, data room setup, and disclosure schedule negotiation.", "usage": "Use for generalist diligence; specialist diligence belongs in the MF codes.", "watch_for": "Diligence staffing and scope unanchored to deal risk profile, and disclosure schedule cost hidden inside general diligence.", "review_signal": "Diligence cost as a percentage of deal value across the portfolio, with the MF split showing where specialist depth went.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#mc00" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MD00", "anchor": "md00", "name": "Ancillary Documents", "description": "Drafting and negotiating agreements ancillary to the principal agreement.", "usage": "Use for ancillary document work.", "watch_for": "Standard ancillaries billed at bespoke drafting depth.", "review_signal": "Hours per ancillary against the firm's precedent bank, the P400 pattern.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#md00" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "ME00", "anchor": "me00", "name": "Financing", "description": "Drafting and negotiating acquisition financing, including loans, debentures, equity financing, and security agreements.", "usage": "Use for acquisition financing work.", "watch_for": "Financing counsel and deal counsel overlapping on the same documents.", "review_signal": "The lender-counsel versus company-counsel division defined at engagement.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#me00" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MF00", "anchor": "mf00", "name": "Regulatory and Specialty Matters (phase header)", "description": "Header for specialist workstreams. The standard directs that time should NOT be recorded at MF00; specialists bill their specific MF task codes.", "usage": "Never bill here; use MF10 through MF80.", "watch_for": "Any MF00 volume, which the standard itself prohibits.", "review_signal": "MF00 usage is a per-se coding error, one of the few automated rules a standard hands you directly.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#mf00" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MF10", "anchor": "mf10", "name": "Antitrust/Competition", "description": "Filing requirement analysis, competition filings, and responses to regulator information requests.", "usage": "Specialist code for competition work.", "watch_for": "Second-request responses without phase budgeting, since they can dwarf the rest of the deal's legal cost.", "review_signal": "Competition spend per filing jurisdiction, with second requests budgeted as their own event.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#mf10" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MF20", "anchor": "mf20", "name": "Data Security/Privacy/Cybersecurity", "description": "Privacy and security diligence, risk and maturity assessment, and related deal terms.", "usage": "Specialist code for data and cyber work.", "watch_for": "Cyber diligence scope defaulting to full assessment regardless of target data profile.", "review_signal": "Scope tiering by target data sensitivity, decided at diligence planning.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#mf20" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MF30", "anchor": "mf30", "name": "Employment, Labor and Employee Benefits", "description": "Human resource issues in the transaction, including WARN analysis and benefits matters.", "usage": "Specialist code for employment and benefits work.", "watch_for": "Overlap with MF31 on executive matters.", "review_signal": "The MF30 and MF31 boundary applied consistently within the deal.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#mf30" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MF31", "anchor": "mf31", "name": "Executive Compensation", "description": "Employment agreements, severance, equity awards, change-in-control payments, and retention arrangements.", "usage": "Specialist code for executive compensation.", "watch_for": "Per-executive analysis cost varying widely for similar arrangements.", "review_signal": "Cost per executive package analyzed, a clean unit benchmark.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#mf31" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MF40", "anchor": "mf40", "name": "Environmental", "description": "Environmental diligence, permit transfers, and related matters.", "usage": "Specialist code for environmental work.", "watch_for": "Full environmental workups on low-footprint targets.", "review_signal": "Scope against the target's actual environmental profile.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#mf40" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MF50", "anchor": "mf50", "name": "Intellectual Property and Technology", "description": "IP and technology diligence, licenses, and IP transfer documents.", "usage": "Specialist code for IP work.", "watch_for": "IP diligence duplicating portfolio analyses the client already holds (TR720 and patent portfolio work).", "review_signal": "Reuse of existing portfolio intelligence in deal diligence.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#mf50" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MF60", "anchor": "mf60", "name": "Real Property", "description": "Real property diligence, transfer documents, and lease assignments.", "usage": "Specialist code for real property work.", "watch_for": "Overlap with the standalone real estate code sets when property work dominates the deal.", "review_signal": "Which coding regime governs, decided at matter opening.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#mf60" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MF70", "anchor": "mf70", "name": "Securities Regulatory Matters", "description": "Registration statements, proxy statements, reports, and no-action requests.", "usage": "Specialist code for securities work.", "watch_for": "Disclosure document cost spread across many timekeepers.", "review_signal": "Hours per filing type against comparable transactions.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#mf70" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MF80", "anchor": "mf80", "name": "Tax", "description": "Transaction structuring, tax diligence, and negotiation of tax allocations and indemnities.", "usage": "Specialist code for tax work.", "watch_for": "Structuring cost recurring on repeated deal patterns, the P300 pattern.", "review_signal": "Declining structuring cost on repeat structures.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#mf80" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MG00", "anchor": "mg00", "name": "Shareholder/Board Matters", "description": "Board presentations, minutes and resolutions, and shareholder approvals.", "usage": "Use for governance workstream of the deal.", "watch_for": "Full-team attendance at board sessions, the B260 pattern at deal rates.", "review_signal": "Attendance against an agreed staffing plan for board events.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#mg00" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MH00", "anchor": "mh00", "name": "Closing Matters", "description": "Closing documents, certificates, legal opinions, closing agenda, and closing execution.", "usage": "Use for closing work.", "watch_for": "Closing-week surges reflecting deferred work, the P600 pattern.", "review_signal": "Closing cost per deal size and the surge pattern by firm.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#mh00" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MI00", "anchor": "mi00", "name": "Integration Matters", "description": "Post-closing integration, including subsidiary restructuring and asset transfers.", "usage": "Use for integration work.", "watch_for": "Integration continuing indefinitely on the deal matter, the P700 pattern.", "review_signal": "An integration end date, with later work opened as new matters.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#mi00" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MJ00", "anchor": "mj00", "name": "Post-Closing Requirements, Disputes and Adjustments", "description": "Working capital adjustments, indemnification claims, and earn-out matters.", "usage": "Use for post-closing adjustment and dispute work.", "watch_for": "Adjustment disputes escalating without an economics check against the amounts at stake.", "review_signal": "Dispute cost against the adjustment value in play, the L470 logic applied to deals.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#mj00" }, { "set": "M&A", "standard": "ABA/LOC (2016)", "code": "MK00", "anchor": "mk00", "name": "Deal Management", "description": "Non-clerical project management overseeing the transaction.", "usage": "Use for deal management, the M&A counterpart of P100.", "watch_for": "Deal management as an outsized share of total fees.", "review_signal": "MK00 percentage of deal fees across comparable transactions.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/mergers-acquisitions/#mk00" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "PSA00", "anchor": "psa00", "name": "Preliminary Deal Terms", "description": "Letters of intent, confidentiality agreements, and structuring advice.", "usage": "Use for pre-agreement work.", "watch_for": "Preliminary cost on transactions that never sign.", "review_signal": "Dead-deal cost tracking at the portfolio level.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#psa00" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "PSB00", "anchor": "psb00", "name": "Matter Organization", "description": "Non-clerical project management of the transaction.", "usage": "Use for deal management.", "watch_for": "Coordination share running high, the P100 pattern.", "review_signal": "Percentage of deal fees across comparable transactions.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#psb00" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "PSC10", "anchor": "psc10", "name": "Purchase and Sale Agreement", "description": "Drafting, negotiating, and amending the purchase and sale agreement and business-terms documents.", "usage": "Use for the principal agreement.", "watch_for": "Turn volume on market-standard provisions.", "review_signal": "Rounds and hours per turn against comparable deals.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#psc10" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "PSC20", "anchor": "psc20", "name": "Ancillary Documents", "description": "Deeds, assignments, mortgages, and other closing and ancillary documents.", "usage": "Use for ancillary documents.", "watch_for": "Standard instruments at bespoke drafting depth.", "review_signal": "Per-document unit cost against precedent.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#psc20" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "PSC30", "anchor": "psc30", "name": "Finance", "description": "Reviewing and negotiating acquisition financing documents.", "usage": "Use for finance workstream within a purchase.", "watch_for": "Overlap with a standalone finance matter under the F codes.", "review_signal": "One coding regime per financing, chosen at matter opening.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#psc30" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "PSD00", "anchor": "psd00", "name": "Local Counsel Matters", "description": "Coordinating with local counsel, distributing and revising documents.", "usage": "Use for local counsel coordination.", "watch_for": "Coordination billed on both lead and local invoices, the A107 pattern.", "review_signal": "Cross-invoice reconciliation where local counsel bills separately.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#psd00" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "PSE10", "anchor": "pse10", "name": "Due Diligence and Disclosure Schedules", "description": "Ordering and reviewing non-real-estate diligence such as liens, litigation, and background checks.", "usage": "Use for general diligence.", "watch_for": "Diligence scope beyond the risk profile.", "review_signal": "Scope tiering by deal size and risk.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#pse10" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "PSE20", "anchor": "pse20", "name": "Real Estate Due Diligence and Title Review", "description": "Title insurance, surveys, and real estate diligence and negotiations.", "usage": "Use for title and survey work.", "watch_for": "Title review cost varying widely per property.", "review_signal": "Per-property title review unit cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#pse20" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "PSE30", "anchor": "pse30", "name": "Regulatory and Specialty Matters (header)", "description": "Header for specialist diligence; time bills to the specific specialist codes.", "usage": "Do not bill here.", "watch_for": "Any volume at the header.", "review_signal": "Per-se rule, as with MF00.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#pse30" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "PSE31", "anchor": "pse31", "name": "Environmental", "description": "Environmental diligence and permit transfer matters.", "usage": "Specialist code.", "watch_for": "Full workups on low-risk properties.", "review_signal": "Scope against property profile.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#pse31" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "PSE32", "anchor": "pse32", "name": "Tax/ERISA", "description": "Tax structuring, diligence, and negotiation of tax provisions.", "usage": "Specialist code.", "watch_for": "Repeated structuring on repeat patterns.", "review_signal": "Declining cost on repeat structures.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#pse32" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "PSE33", "anchor": "pse33", "name": "Land Use", "description": "Zoning review and land use diligence.", "usage": "Specialist code.", "watch_for": "Zoning research repeated per parcel in the same jurisdiction.", "review_signal": "Jurisdiction-level reuse.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#pse33" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "PSE34", "anchor": "pse34", "name": "Bankruptcy Matters", "description": "Fraudulent transfer, preference, and consolidation advice in the transaction.", "usage": "Specialist code.", "watch_for": "Specialist depth without a distress trigger.", "review_signal": "Trigger-based engagement of the specialty.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#pse34" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "PSF00", "anchor": "psf00", "name": "Opinion Matters", "description": "Opinion requirements, preparation, and review.", "usage": "Use for opinion work.", "watch_for": "Opinion negotiation cycles extending beyond customary qualifications.", "review_signal": "Cost per opinion against market-standard forms.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#psf00" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "PSG00", "anchor": "psg00", "name": "Closing Matters", "description": "Closing execution work.", "usage": "Use for closing.", "watch_for": "Closing surges from deferred work.", "review_signal": "Closing cost per deal size, the P600 benchmark.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#psg00" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "PSH00", "anchor": "psh00", "name": "Post-Closing", "description": "Title policy review, closing sets, and post-closing negotiations.", "usage": "Use for defined post-closing work.", "watch_for": "Open-ended post-closing tails.", "review_signal": "An end date, with new work as new matters.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#psh00" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "LA00", "anchor": "la00", "name": "Preliminary Deal Terms", "description": "Letters of intent, confidentiality agreements, and structuring advice for the lease.", "usage": "Use for pre-lease work.", "watch_for": "Preliminary cost on leases that never sign.", "review_signal": "Dead-deal tracking.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#la00" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "LB00", "anchor": "lb00", "name": "Matter Organization", "description": "Non-clerical project management of the leasing matter.", "usage": "Use for matter management.", "watch_for": "High coordination share.", "review_signal": "Percentage benchmark.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#lb00" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "LC10", "anchor": "lc10", "name": "Lease Agreement", "description": "Drafting, negotiating, and amending the lease agreement.", "usage": "Use for the principal lease.", "watch_for": "Form-lease negotiations at bespoke depth for standard tenancies.", "review_signal": "Hours per lease by deal type; leasing portfolios are prime flat-fee territory.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#lc10" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "LC20", "anchor": "lc20", "name": "Ancillary Documents", "description": "Assignments, indemnities, work letters, and other ancillary lease documents.", "usage": "Use for ancillaries.", "watch_for": "Standard instruments at drafting depth.", "review_signal": "Per-document unit cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#lc20" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "LC30", "anchor": "lc30", "name": "SNDAs/Estoppels", "description": "Preparation and negotiation of SNDAs and estoppel certificates.", "usage": "Use for SNDA and estoppel work.", "watch_for": "Per-certificate cost on portfolio-scale estoppel programs.", "review_signal": "Unit cost per certificate; at portfolio volume this is a managed-service candidate.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#lc30" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "LD00", "anchor": "ld00", "name": "Local Counsel Matters", "description": "Local counsel coordination on the lease.", "usage": "Use for local counsel work.", "watch_for": "Dual-invoice coordination.", "review_signal": "Cross-invoice reconciliation.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#ld00" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "LE10", "anchor": "le10", "name": "Due Diligence and Disclosure Schedules", "description": "General diligence including liens, litigation, and background checks.", "usage": "Use for general lease diligence.", "watch_for": "Scope beyond tenancy risk.", "review_signal": "Risk-tiered scope.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#le10" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "LE20", "anchor": "le20", "name": "Title Review", "description": "Title insurance, surveys, and real estate diligence for the lease.", "usage": "Use for title work.", "watch_for": "Per-property variance.", "review_signal": "Unit cost per property.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#le20" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "LE30", "anchor": "le30", "name": "Regulatory and Specialty Matters (header)", "description": "Specialist header; bill the specific codes.", "usage": "Do not bill here.", "watch_for": "Header volume.", "review_signal": "Per-se rule.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#le30" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "LE31", "anchor": "le31", "name": "Environmental", "description": "Environmental diligence for the lease.", "usage": "Specialist code.", "watch_for": "Full workups on office-use tenancies.", "review_signal": "Use-based scope.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#le31" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "LE32", "anchor": "le32", "name": "Tax/ERISA", "description": "Tax matters in the lease transaction.", "usage": "Specialist code.", "watch_for": "Repeat structuring.", "review_signal": "Repeat-pattern cost decline.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#le32" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "LE33", "anchor": "le33", "name": "Land Use", "description": "Zoning review for the tenancy.", "usage": "Specialist code.", "watch_for": "Per-parcel repetition.", "review_signal": "Jurisdiction reuse.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#le33" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "LF00", "anchor": "lf00", "name": "Opinion Matters", "description": "Opinion work on the lease.", "usage": "Use for opinions.", "watch_for": "Non-customary opinion cycles.", "review_signal": "Cost per opinion.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#lf00" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "LG00", "anchor": "lg00", "name": "Closing Matters", "description": "Lease closing work.", "usage": "Use for closing.", "watch_for": "Deferred-work surges.", "review_signal": "Closing benchmark.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#lg00" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "LH00", "anchor": "lh00", "name": "Post-Closing", "description": "Post-closing lease matters including closing sets.", "usage": "Use for defined post-closing work.", "watch_for": "Open tails.", "review_signal": "End-date discipline.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#lh00" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "FA00", "anchor": "fa00", "name": "Preliminary Deal Terms", "description": "Letters of intent, confidentiality, and structuring advice on the financing.", "usage": "Use for pre-agreement financing work.", "watch_for": "Dead-deal cost.", "review_signal": "Portfolio tracking.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#fa00" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "FB00", "anchor": "fb00", "name": "Matter Organization", "description": "Non-clerical project management of the financing.", "usage": "Use for matter management.", "watch_for": "Coordination share.", "review_signal": "Percentage benchmark.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#fb00" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "FC10", "anchor": "fc10", "name": "Loan/Credit Agreements", "description": "Drafting, negotiating, and amending the credit or loan agreement and principal loan documents.", "usage": "Use for principal loan documents.", "watch_for": "Turn volume on market-standard provisions.", "review_signal": "Rounds and hours per turn by facility type.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#fc10" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "FC20", "anchor": "fc20", "name": "Ancillary Documents", "description": "Mortgages, assignments, indemnities, and other closing documents.", "usage": "Use for ancillaries.", "watch_for": "Standard security instruments at bespoke depth.", "review_signal": "Per-instrument unit cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#fc20" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "FD00", "anchor": "fd00", "name": "Local Counsel Matters", "description": "Local counsel coordination on the financing.", "usage": "Use for local counsel work.", "watch_for": "Dual-invoice coordination across collateral jurisdictions.", "review_signal": "Cross-invoice reconciliation; multi-state collateral makes this material.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#fd00" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "FE10", "anchor": "fe10", "name": "Non-Real Estate Due Diligence and Entity Matters", "description": "Liens, litigation, background checks, and entity diligence.", "usage": "Use for general and entity diligence.", "watch_for": "Entity diligence repeated across facilities for the same borrower group.", "review_signal": "Borrower-group reuse.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#fe10" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "FE20", "anchor": "fe20", "name": "Real Estate Due Diligence and Title Review", "description": "Title, surveys, and title instrument preparation.", "usage": "Use for title work.", "watch_for": "Per-property variance across the collateral pool.", "review_signal": "Unit cost per collateral property.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#fe20" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "FE30", "anchor": "fe30", "name": "Regulatory and Specialty Matters (header)", "description": "Specialist header; bill the specific codes.", "usage": "Do not bill here.", "watch_for": "Header volume.", "review_signal": "Per-se rule.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#fe30" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "FE31", "anchor": "fe31", "name": "Environmental", "description": "Environmental diligence on collateral.", "usage": "Specialist code.", "watch_for": "Full workups across low-risk collateral.", "review_signal": "Risk-tiered scope per property.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#fe31" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "FE32", "anchor": "fe32", "name": "Tax/ERISA", "description": "Tax matters in the financing.", "usage": "Specialist code.", "watch_for": "Repeat structuring.", "review_signal": "Repeat-pattern decline.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#fe32" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "FE33", "anchor": "fe33", "name": "Land Use", "description": "Zoning and permit review on collateral.", "usage": "Specialist code.", "watch_for": "Per-parcel repetition.", "review_signal": "Jurisdiction reuse.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#fe33" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "FE34", "anchor": "fe34", "name": "Bankruptcy", "description": "Fraudulent transfer, preference, and consolidation advice on the financing.", "usage": "Specialist code.", "watch_for": "Depth without a distress trigger.", "review_signal": "Trigger-based engagement.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#fe34" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "FF00", "anchor": "ff00", "name": "Opinion Matters", "description": "Opinion requirements, preparation, review, and negotiation.", "usage": "Use for opinions, a heavier workstream in finance than other RE types.", "watch_for": "Opinion negotiation beyond customary forms.", "review_signal": "Cost per opinion by facility type.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#ff00" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "FG10", "anchor": "fg10", "name": "Client Closing Requirements", "description": "Lender conformance letters, deal summaries, and disclosures.", "usage": "Use for lender-client closing deliverables.", "watch_for": "Per-deal summary cost on standardized lending programs.", "review_signal": "Unit cost per closing package; program lending should show template economics.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#fg10" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "FG20", "anchor": "fg20", "name": "Closing Matters", "description": "Closing execution.", "usage": "Use for closing.", "watch_for": "Deferred-work surges.", "review_signal": "Closing benchmark.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#fg20" }, { "set": "Real Estate", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "FH00", "anchor": "fh00", "name": "Post-Closing", "description": "Post-closing matters including title policies and closing sets.", "usage": "Use for defined post-closing work.", "watch_for": "Open tails.", "review_signal": "End-date discipline.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/real-estate/#fh00" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC110", "anchor": "wc110", "name": "Fact Investigation/Development", "description": "Investigating matter facts, including interviews, claims file and wage record review, medical record review on work status and treatment, and prior claim history.", "usage": "Use for factual development, which in comp practice can recur across the life of a long-tail claim.", "watch_for": "Initial-assessment research continuing past initial evaluation, which the standard itself directs to the primary task codes.", "review_signal": "Front-loaded shape on standard claims, with recurrence justified by new compensability issues in long-tail jurisdictions.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc110" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC120", "anchor": "wc120", "name": "Analysis/Strategy", "description": "Case strategy, litigation plans and updates, and strategy communication with adjuster, employer, and nurse case manager.", "usage": "Use for strategy work including the adjuster communication the standard assigns here.", "watch_for": "Strategy concentration masking routine status reporting to the carrier.", "review_signal": "WC120 share of claim fees benchmarked across defense panel firms.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc120" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC130", "anchor": "wc130", "name": "Experts/Consultants", "description": "Selecting medical and vocational experts and initial expert communication.", "usage": "Use only for identifying and engaging experts; report and testimony work belongs under WC330, WC340, or WC420 per the standard.", "watch_for": "Expert report support billed here instead of the deposition and discovery codes.", "review_signal": "The selection-versus-support boundary the standard draws explicitly.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc130" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC150", "anchor": "wc150", "name": "Budgeting", "description": "Budget preparation, negotiation, revision, and budget correspondence.", "usage": "Use for budget work where compensable.", "watch_for": "Budget communication billed under WC120 instead, which the standard prohibits.", "review_signal": "Guideline compensability and correct code placement.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc150" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC160", "anchor": "wc160", "name": "Settlement/Resolution", "description": "Settlement analysis, discussions, mediation including preparation and travel, releases, compromise agreements, stipulations, and Medicare set-aside allocation and CMS submissions.", "usage": "Use for all resolution-directed work including MSA activity.", "watch_for": "MSA preparation cost varying widely per settlement, and mediation travel at full rates where guidelines reduce it.", "review_signal": "Cost per resolved claim and MSA unit cost, the two figures that price your resolution function.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc160" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC180", "anchor": "wc180", "name": "Alternative Fee Arrangements - Assessment Phase", "description": "Recording time for non-hourly arrangements covering this phase's tasks.", "usage": "Use when flat or fixed fees cover assessment-phase work.", "watch_for": "AFA codes used alongside hourly entries for the same work.", "review_signal": "AFA and hourly entries should never overlap for one task; the split is auditable.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc180" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC210", "anchor": "wc210", "name": "Pleadings", "description": "Drafting and reviewing pleadings, state comp forms, counterclaims, affidavits, and related research and reporting.", "usage": "Use for pleadings and state form work.", "watch_for": "Form-driven filings billed at pleading depth, since comp practice is heavily form-based.", "review_signal": "Per-filing unit cost by form type, a natural flat-fee candidate.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc210" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC230", "anchor": "wc230", "name": "Conferences with Judge", "description": "Preparing for, attending, and reporting on conferences with the tribunal, up to the merits hearing.", "usage": "Use for tribunal conferences; final pretrial conferences bill to WC450 per the standard.", "watch_for": "Travel folded into conference entries.", "review_signal": "Conference length against the tribunal calendar, the L230 logic.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc230" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC280", "anchor": "wc280", "name": "Alternative Fee Arrangements - Pleadings Phase", "description": "Non-hourly arrangement recording for this phase.", "usage": "Use for flat-fee pleadings work such as answer filings.", "watch_for": "Same overlap risk as WC180.", "review_signal": "AFA-hourly exclusivity per task.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc280" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC310", "anchor": "wc310", "name": "Written Discovery", "description": "Preparing and responding to written discovery, including meet-and-confer sessions and mandatory disclosures.", "usage": "Use for written discovery.", "watch_for": "Standard-set responses at bespoke depth.", "review_signal": "Hours per discovery set against claim type baselines.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc310" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC320", "anchor": "wc320", "name": "Document Production/Acquisition", "description": "Document requests and responses, privilege review, subpoenas and authorizations, and medical record acquisition and exchange.", "usage": "Use for document work including medical records, which the standard assigns here except IME-related work under WC340.", "watch_for": "Medical record retrieval at professional rates where record services handle it, and per-claim record volume unmanaged.", "review_signal": "Record acquisition unit cost against vendor alternatives; on comp portfolios this is a real number.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc320" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC330", "anchor": "wc330", "name": "Depositions", "description": "Deposition notices, witness communication and preparation, medical record review for deposition, examination preparation, attendance, travel, and summaries. In some jurisdictions medical testimony taken by deposition constitutes trial testimony and bills here.", "usage": "Use for deposition work.", "watch_for": "Preparation multiples on routine medical depositions, and travel at full rates.", "review_signal": "Prep-to-deposition ratios by witness type, with the transcript anchoring attendance.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc330" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC340", "anchor": "wc340", "name": "Expert Discovery", "description": "Expert discovery once experts are identified, including IME and impairment rating scheduling, review, and analysis.", "usage": "Use for expert discovery including IME and IRE work, which the standard assigns here.", "watch_for": "IME coordination billed at attorney rates for scheduling logistics.", "review_signal": "IME unit cost per exam cycle, one of the highest-volume recurring events in comp defense.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc340" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC350", "anchor": "wc350", "name": "Discovery Motions", "description": "Motions arising from discovery, including protective orders and order summaries.", "usage": "Use for discovery motion practice.", "watch_for": "Sustained motion volume, the L350 signal in administrative form.", "review_signal": "Motion concentration as a case-management indicator.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc350" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC360", "anchor": "wc360", "name": "Discovery On-Site Inspections/Visits", "description": "Site inspection attendance, travel, and result summaries.", "usage": "Use for site inspections.", "watch_for": "Multiple attendees and bundled travel, the L360 pattern.", "review_signal": "Event-anchored attendance review.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc360" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC380", "anchor": "wc380", "name": "Alternative Fee Arrangements - Discovery Phase", "description": "Non-hourly arrangement recording for this phase.", "usage": "Use for flat-fee discovery events such as depositions.", "watch_for": "Same overlap risk.", "review_signal": "AFA-hourly exclusivity per task.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc380" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC410", "anchor": "wc410", "name": "Fact Witnesses", "description": "Preparing fact witness examinations and cross-examinations, including transcript review.", "usage": "Use for hearing-stage fact witness work; testimony-taking bills to WC330 or WC450.", "watch_for": "Preparation repeated across continuances.", "review_signal": "Hours per witness with continuance effects visible in the timeline.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc410" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC420", "anchor": "wc420", "name": "Expert Witnesses", "description": "Preparing expert examinations and cross-examinations, including adverse expert background investigation.", "usage": "Use for hearing-stage expert work.", "watch_for": "Firm preparation paralleling expert-invoiced preparation, the dual-billing pattern.", "review_signal": "Combined firm-plus-expert cost per expert presented.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc420" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC430", "anchor": "wc430", "name": "Written Motions/Submissions", "description": "Hearing-stage motions including dispositive and jurisdictional motions, responses, argument, and order analysis.", "usage": "Use for hearing-stage written motion work; discovery motions stay under WC350.", "watch_for": "Motion classification drifting between WC350 and WC430.", "review_signal": "Docket-anchored classification.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc430" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC440", "anchor": "wc440", "name": "Hearing Preparation and Support", "description": "Hearing preparation including exhibits, demonstratives, pre-hearing conferences, research, deposition review, trial memoranda, and opening and closing statements. Witness prep immediately before hearing bills here per the standard.", "usage": "Use for hearing preparation.", "watch_for": "Preparation-to-hearing billing ratios out of line, an analysis the standard itself recommends.", "review_signal": "The prep-to-hearing ratio by firm, a benchmark the standard explicitly endorses.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc440" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC450", "anchor": "wc450", "name": "Hearing", "description": "Hearing appearance, argument, travel, and post-hearing reporting.", "usage": "Use for hearing attendance including final pretrial conferences.", "watch_for": "Travel at full rates and multi-attendee hearings.", "review_signal": "Hearing length is docketed; attendance review is factual.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc450" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC460", "anchor": "wc460", "name": "Post-Hearing Conferences/Motions/Submissions", "description": "Post-hearing conferences, proposed findings, objections, proposed orders, and motions for rehearing, excluding appellate analysis.", "usage": "Use for post-hearing work at the tribunal level.", "watch_for": "Appellate analysis billed here instead of WC510 or WC520.", "review_signal": "The tribunal-versus-appeal boundary.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc460" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC470", "anchor": "wc470", "name": "Assertion of Subrogation Claims", "description": "Asserting subrogation claims on behalf of the employer or carrier.", "usage": "Use for subrogation work.", "watch_for": "Subrogation pursuit cost unanchored to recovery potential.", "review_signal": "Recovery-to-cost ratio, the L470 economics.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc470" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC480", "anchor": "wc480", "name": "Alternative Fee Arrangements - Hearing Phase", "description": "Non-hourly arrangement recording for this phase.", "usage": "Use for flat-fee hearing events.", "watch_for": "Same overlap risk.", "review_signal": "AFA-hourly exclusivity per task.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc480" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC510", "anchor": "wc510", "name": "Appellate Proceedings/Motion Practice", "description": "Appellate motions, notices of appeal, record designation, extraordinary writs, petition responses, and appendices. The standard designates exhibit copying and assembly as overhead.", "usage": "Use for appellate procedural work.", "watch_for": "Assembly and copying time billed despite the standard's explicit overhead designation.", "review_signal": "The standard's own overhead rule, directly enforceable.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc510" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC520", "anchor": "wc520", "name": "Appellate Briefs", "description": "Brief research, drafting, opposing brief review, record preparation, and appeal communication.", "usage": "Use for merits briefing.", "watch_for": "Brief hours across many timekeepers, the L520 pattern.", "review_signal": "Hours per brief, a strong fixed-fee candidate.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc520" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC530", "anchor": "wc530", "name": "Oral Argument/Post Submission Practice", "description": "Argument preparation, argument, travel, and decision review.", "usage": "Use for argument-stage work.", "watch_for": "Large moot audiences all billing.", "review_signal": "Staffing set before the argument cycle.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc530" }, { "set": "Workers' Comp", "standard": "UTBMS WC (2010)", "code": "WC580", "anchor": "wc580", "name": "Alternative Fee Arrangements - Appellate Phase", "description": "Non-hourly arrangement recording for this phase.", "usage": "Use for flat-fee appellate work.", "watch_for": "Same overlap risk.", "review_signal": "AFA-hourly exclusivity per task.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/workers-compensation/#wc580" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T110", "anchor": "t110", "name": "Fact Gathering", "description": "Gathering and researching case facts, including physical collection of documents, devices, and messages.", "usage": "Use for factual development.", "watch_for": "Collection work overlapping eDiscovery workstreams billed elsewhere.", "review_signal": "Read with any L600-series vendor work for the full collection cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t110" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T111", "anchor": "t111", "name": "Document Review", "description": "Reviewing client documents.", "usage": "Use for document review.", "watch_for": "Attorney-rate review at scale, the L320 economics in defense form.", "review_signal": "Review staffing model and per-document cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t111" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T112", "anchor": "t112", "name": "Witness Interviews", "description": "Meeting with fact and character witnesses.", "usage": "Use for witness interviews.", "watch_for": "Per-interview cost variance.", "review_signal": "Unit cost per interview.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t112" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T113", "anchor": "t113", "name": "Client Sessions", "description": "Client meetings on facts, status, and government debriefing preparation.", "usage": "Use for client sessions.", "watch_for": "Status meetings at full team strength.", "review_signal": "Attendance per session.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t113" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T120", "anchor": "t120", "name": "Voluntary Disclosure/Self-Disclosure", "description": "Researching, preparing, and presenting voluntary disclosures, including expert cost analysis.", "usage": "Use for disclosure workstreams.", "watch_for": "Disclosure preparation without a decision checkpoint on whether to disclose.", "review_signal": "The disclose-or-not decision documented before presentation work begins.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t120" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T130", "anchor": "t130", "name": "Queen for a Day", "description": "Negotiating proffer immunity, preparing for, and attending client proffers.", "usage": "Use for proffer work.", "watch_for": "Proffer preparation depth against the exposure at stake.", "review_signal": "Preparation hours per proffer session.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t130" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T140", "anchor": "t140", "name": "Reverse Proffer", "description": "Meetings where the government presents its case.", "usage": "Use for reverse proffer sessions.", "watch_for": "Full-team attendance.", "review_signal": "Attendance against session value.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t140" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T150", "anchor": "t150", "name": "Prepare Client for Possible Searches", "description": "Preparing client and employees on search response procedures.", "usage": "Use for search readiness.", "watch_for": "Readiness programs rebuilt per matter for the same client.", "review_signal": "Program reuse across matters.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t150" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T160", "anchor": "t160", "name": "Document Retention", "description": "Legal hold preparation and retention implementation.", "usage": "Use for hold work.", "watch_for": "Manual hold administration, the L612 pattern.", "review_signal": "Hold tooling economics.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t160" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T170", "anchor": "t170", "name": "Search Warrant", "description": "Presence during warrant execution and inventory of seized materials.", "usage": "Use for search response.", "watch_for": "Post-event inventory at senior rates.", "review_signal": "Staffing mix on inventory work.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t170" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T171", "anchor": "t171", "name": "Debriefings After Search Warrant", "description": "Employee interviews following execution.", "usage": "Use for post-search debriefings.", "watch_for": "Per-employee interview cost.", "review_signal": "Unit cost per debriefing.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t171" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T180", "anchor": "t180", "name": "Subpoena Compliance", "description": "Analyzing subpoenas, collecting and reviewing responsive documents, production preparation.", "usage": "Use for subpoena response.", "watch_for": "Compliance review at attorney rates where tiered staffing fits.", "review_signal": "Per-subpoena response cost and staffing mix.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t180" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T190", "anchor": "t190", "name": "Self-Surrender and Bond Negotiations", "description": "Negotiating bond, surrender logistics, and processing.", "usage": "Use for surrender and bond work.", "watch_for": "Logistics time at counsel rates.", "review_signal": "Event-anchored review.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t190" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T210", "anchor": "t210", "name": "Bond and/or Detention Hearing", "description": "Preparing and attending bond hearings, including family coordination and sureties.", "usage": "Use for detention proceedings.", "watch_for": "Preparation multiples on routine bond matters.", "review_signal": "Prep-to-hearing ratio.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t210" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T220", "anchor": "t220", "name": "Discovery Motions", "description": "Suppression and compel motions, including witness preparation for hearings.", "usage": "Use for discovery motion practice.", "watch_for": "Motion volume as strategy versus necessity.", "review_signal": "Cost per motion against outcomes.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t220" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T221", "anchor": "t221", "name": "Motions to Dismiss", "description": "Indictment analysis and dismissal motions.", "usage": "Use for dismissal practice.", "watch_for": "Duplication with trial-theory development under T290.", "review_signal": "The motion-versus-strategy boundary.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t221" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T222", "anchor": "t222", "name": "Motions in Limine", "description": "In limine motion research and drafting.", "usage": "Use for in limine work.", "watch_for": "Motion multiplication, the L430 pattern.", "review_signal": "Count against genuinely disputed evidence issues.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t222" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T223", "anchor": "t223", "name": "Other Motions", "description": "Any other pre-trial motion work.", "usage": "Limited expected usage.", "watch_for": "Catch-all concentration.", "review_signal": "Catch-all hygiene metric.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t223" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T230", "anchor": "t230", "name": "Attendance at Hearings", "description": "Court time for hearings not otherwise coded.", "usage": "Use for miscellaneous hearing attendance.", "watch_for": "Multi-attendee routine hearings.", "review_signal": "Docket-anchored attendance.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t230" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T240", "anchor": "t240", "name": "Fact Investigation", "description": "Witness interviews, site inspections, document and evidence review in the pre-trial phase.", "usage": "Use for continuing investigation.", "watch_for": "Investigation recurring without new-issue triggers.", "review_signal": "Timeline shape against case developments.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t240" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T250", "anchor": "t250", "name": "Electronic Discovery", "description": "Building databases of government discovery and client documents, search terms, and review workflow.", "usage": "Use for defense-side eDiscovery.", "watch_for": "Blended eDiscovery costs without unit visibility.", "review_signal": "Apply the L600-series unit economics; per-GB and per-document rates govern here too.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t250" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T260", "anchor": "t260", "name": "Discovery Inspection of Documents in Law Enforcement Possession", "description": "On-site review at law enforcement facilities.", "usage": "Use for warehouse review.", "watch_for": "Senior-rate warehouse review.", "review_signal": "Staffing mix on inspection work.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t260" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T270", "anchor": "t270", "name": "Witness Preparation", "description": "Preparing witnesses to testify at trial.", "usage": "Use for pre-trial witness preparation.", "watch_for": "Preparation repeated across continuances.", "review_signal": "Hours per witness with continuance attribution.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t270" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T271", "anchor": "t271", "name": "Expert Witness Preparation", "description": "Identifying, interviewing, and preparing experts, including analysis sessions.", "usage": "Use for expert workstreams.", "watch_for": "Dual-billing with expert invoices.", "review_signal": "Combined cost per expert.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t271" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T280", "anchor": "t280", "name": "Plea Negotiations", "description": "Negotiating pleas, guideline calculations, and client discussions.", "usage": "Use for plea work.", "watch_for": "Late-stage pleas carrying full trial preparation cost behind them.", "review_signal": "Resolution timing against cumulative spend, the L160 strategic signal.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t280" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T281", "anchor": "t281", "name": "Debriefings with Government Pursuant to Cooperation", "description": "Cooperation preparation and government debriefings.", "usage": "Use for cooperation sessions.", "watch_for": "Per-session team size.", "review_signal": "Attendance per debriefing.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t281" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T290", "anchor": "t290", "name": "Trial Preparation", "description": "Defense theory development, witness identification, and examination development.", "usage": "Use for pre-trial trial preparation.", "watch_for": "Overlap with T320 once trial begins.", "review_signal": "The phase boundary at trial commencement.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t290" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T291", "anchor": "t291", "name": "Trial Briefs", "description": "Internal trial memoranda and court trial briefs.", "usage": "Use for trial briefing.", "watch_for": "Multi-timekeeper briefs.", "review_signal": "Hours per brief.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t291" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T292", "anchor": "t292", "name": "Jury Instructions", "description": "Researching, drafting, and reviewing instructions.", "usage": "Use for instruction work.", "watch_for": "Instruction research rebuilt per matter for standard charges.", "review_signal": "Charge-library reuse.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t292" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T310", "anchor": "t310", "name": "Trial", "description": "Court time during trial.", "usage": "Use for in-trial attendance.", "watch_for": "Attendance beyond trial-day roles.", "review_signal": "Staffing plan enforcement, the L450 rule.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t310" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T320", "anchor": "t320", "name": "Trial Preparation", "description": "In-trial witness preparation, cross-examination preparation, and daily trial work.", "usage": "Use for in-trial preparation.", "watch_for": "Daily burn without a trial-phase budget.", "review_signal": "Trial-phase budget variance, the L440 approach.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t320" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T330", "anchor": "t330", "name": "Post-Trial Motions Excluding Sentencing", "description": "Post-trial motions such as judgment of acquittal.", "usage": "Use for post-verdict motions.", "watch_for": "Standard motions at bespoke depth.", "review_signal": "Cost per motion type.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t330" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T340", "anchor": "t340", "name": "Sentencing Preparation", "description": "Client allocution preparation, character witnesses, themes, and mitigation video work.", "usage": "Use for sentencing preparation.", "watch_for": "Mitigation production cost without pre-approval.", "review_signal": "Mitigation vendor costs pre-approved and at cost.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t340" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T350", "anchor": "t350", "name": "Sentencing Memorandum", "description": "PSR objections and sentencing memoranda.", "usage": "Use for sentencing briefing.", "watch_for": "Multi-timekeeper drafting.", "review_signal": "Hours per memorandum.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t350" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T360", "anchor": "t360", "name": "Sentencing Hearing", "description": "Sentencing preparation and hearing attendance.", "usage": "Use for the sentencing event.", "watch_for": "Full-team attendance.", "review_signal": "Event-anchored review.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t360" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T410", "anchor": "t410", "name": "Appellate Motions and Submissions", "description": "Notices of appeal, deadline research, transcript requests, and procedural filings.", "usage": "Use for appellate procedure.", "watch_for": "Procedural work at merits rates.", "review_signal": "Procedural benchmarks per court.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t410" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T420", "anchor": "t420", "name": "Bond Issues", "description": "Bond pending appeal motions.", "usage": "Use for appellate bond work.", "watch_for": "Standard motions at depth.", "review_signal": "Cost per motion.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t420" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T430", "anchor": "t430", "name": "Appellate Briefs", "description": "Brief research, drafting, and assembly.", "usage": "Use for merits briefing.", "watch_for": "Distributed drafting.", "review_signal": "Hours per brief, the L520 benchmark.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t430" }, { "set": "Criminal Law", "standard": "ABA draft", "code": "T440", "anchor": "t440", "name": "Oral Argument", "description": "Argument preparation and presentation.", "usage": "Use for argument work.", "watch_for": "Large moot audiences billing.", "review_signal": "Pre-cycle staffing agreement.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/criminal-law/#t440" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JA10", "anchor": "ja10", "name": "Funding", "description": "Reviewing funding options and securing funding.", "usage": "Reviewing funding options, securing funding, and reports to funders through the case.", "watch_for": "Funding work has no US-code equivalent, so on multi-jurisdiction matters it disappears into catch-alls unless coded here.", "review_signal": "Funding-related time visible as its own line rather than buried in case administration.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#ja10" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JB10", "anchor": "jb10", "name": "Budgeting - own side's costs", "description": "Client-facing budgets and monitoring, including third-party funding and ATE-related budget work.", "usage": "All budgeting and costs management work across the case except costs assessment, funding, and costs management hearings.", "watch_for": "Budget work coded to a single bucket when the court will want the Precedent-H preparation distinguished from between-parties budget monitoring.", "review_signal": "The three-way JB split maintained, since JB20 (initial Precedent-H) is a one-time event while JB30 recurs.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jb10" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JB20", "anchor": "jb20", "name": "Budgeting - Precedent H", "description": "Preparing and compiling the first court-required Precedent-H budget.", "usage": "All budgeting and costs management work across the case except costs assessment, funding, and costs management hearings.", "watch_for": "Budget work coded to a single bucket when the court will want the Precedent-H preparation distinguished from between-parties budget monitoring.", "review_signal": "The three-way JB split maintained, since JB20 (initial Precedent-H) is a one-time event while JB30 recurs.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jb20" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JB30", "anchor": "jb30", "name": "Budgeting - between the parties", "description": "Post-initial budget work between parties, monitoring against budget, and variation applications.", "usage": "All budgeting and costs management work across the case except costs assessment, funding, and costs management hearings.", "watch_for": "Budget work coded to a single bucket when the court will want the Precedent-H preparation distinguished from between-parties budget monitoring.", "review_signal": "The three-way JB split maintained, since JB20 (initial Precedent-H) is a one-time event while JB30 recurs.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jb30" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JC10", "anchor": "jc10", "name": "Factual investigation", "description": "Understanding case facts, client instructions, and identifying potential witnesses.", "usage": "Instructions, witness identification, evidential and legal issues, strategy, and protocol compliance before issue.", "watch_for": "Pre-action phases carrying open-ended investigation the way L110 does in US matters.", "review_signal": "Pre-action cost against the Precedent-H pre-action heading it feeds.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jc10" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JC20", "anchor": "jc20", "name": "Legal investigation", "description": "Identifying legal issues and developing case strategy.", "usage": "Instructions, witness identification, evidential and legal issues, strategy, and protocol compliance before issue.", "watch_for": "Pre-action phases carrying open-ended investigation the way L110 does in US matters.", "review_signal": "Pre-action cost against the Precedent-H pre-action heading it feeds.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jc20" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JC30", "anchor": "jc30", "name": "Pre-action protocol (or similar) work", "description": "Protocol-stage communications including letters before action and responses.", "usage": "Instructions, witness identification, evidential and legal issues, strategy, and protocol compliance before issue.", "watch_for": "Pre-action phases carrying open-ended investigation the way L110 does in US matters.", "review_signal": "Pre-action cost against the Precedent-H pre-action heading it feeds.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jc30" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JD10", "anchor": "jd10", "name": "Mediation", "description": "Mediation proposals, preparation, attendance, and follow-up.", "usage": "All settlement-directed work including mediation and Part 36 offers.", "watch_for": "Part 36 economics reviewed without the cost-consequence context that makes them unusual.", "review_signal": "Settlement work timing against cumulative spend, the same strategic timing signal as L160.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jd10" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JD20", "anchor": "jd20", "name": "Other Settlement Matters", "description": "Part 36 and other offers, negotiations, and non-mediation ADR.", "usage": "All settlement-directed work including mediation and Part 36 offers.", "watch_for": "Part 36 economics reviewed without the cost-consequence context that makes them unusual.", "review_signal": "Settlement work timing against cumulative spend, the same strategic timing signal as L160.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jd20" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JE10", "anchor": "je10", "name": "Issue and Serve Proceedings and Preparation of Statement(s) of Case", "description": "Service, originating process, statements of case, Part 20 proceedings, and appellate notices.", "usage": "Issue and service, statements of case, further information requests, and amendments.", "watch_for": "Amendment cycles (JE40) accumulating without a docket anchor.", "review_signal": "Cost per statement of case and amendment frequency, the L210 economics in EW form.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#je10" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JE20", "anchor": "je20", "name": "Review of Other Party(s)' Statements of Case", "description": "Considering opposing claim forms and statements of case.", "usage": "Issue and service, statements of case, further information requests, and amendments.", "watch_for": "Amendment cycles (JE40) accumulating without a docket anchor.", "review_signal": "Cost per statement of case and amendment frequency, the L210 economics in EW form.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#je20" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JE30", "anchor": "je30", "name": "Requests for Further Information", "description": "Preparing and considering further information requests and responses.", "usage": "Issue and service, statements of case, further information requests, and amendments.", "watch_for": "Amendment cycles (JE40) accumulating without a docket anchor.", "review_signal": "Cost per statement of case and amendment frequency, the L210 economics in EW form.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#je30" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JE40", "anchor": "je40", "name": "Amendment of Statements of Case", "description": "Preparing and considering amendments to originating process and statements of case.", "usage": "Issue and service, statements of case, further information requests, and amendments.", "watch_for": "Amendment cycles (JE40) accumulating without a docket anchor.", "review_signal": "Cost per statement of case and amendment frequency, the L210 economics in EW form.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#je40" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JF10", "anchor": "jf10", "name": "Preparation of the disclosure report and the disclosure proposal", "description": "Disclosure reports and proposals, document location work, client disclosure obligations, and CMC disclosure work.", "usage": "Disclosure reports and proposals, document gathering and review, disclosure lists, and inspection of the other side's disclosure.", "watch_for": "Review staffing and unit economics invisible inside JF20, exactly the L320 pattern; disclosure is where EW litigation cost concentrates.", "review_signal": "Documents reviewed per hour and reviewer mix on JF20, plus e-disclosure vendor costs read alongside, the L600-series economics applied to disclosure.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jf10" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JF20", "anchor": "jf20", "name": "Obtaining and reviewing documents", "description": "Obtaining and reviewing documents for relevance, manual and electronic.", "usage": "Disclosure reports and proposals, document gathering and review, disclosure lists, and inspection of the other side's disclosure.", "watch_for": "Review staffing and unit economics invisible inside JF20, exactly the L320 pattern; disclosure is where EW litigation cost concentrates.", "review_signal": "Documents reviewed per hour and reviewer mix on JF20, plus e-disclosure vendor costs read alongside, the L600-series economics applied to disclosure.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jf20" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JF30", "anchor": "jf30", "name": "Preparing and serving disclosure lists", "description": "Preparing and serving disclosure lists.", "usage": "Disclosure reports and proposals, document gathering and review, disclosure lists, and inspection of the other side's disclosure.", "watch_for": "Review staffing and unit economics invisible inside JF20, exactly the L320 pattern; disclosure is where EW litigation cost concentrates.", "review_signal": "Documents reviewed per hour and reviewer mix on JF20, plus e-disclosure vendor costs read alongside, the L600-series economics applied to disclosure.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jf30" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JF40", "anchor": "jf40", "name": "Inspection and review of the other side's disclosure", "description": "Post-exchange inspection and review of opposing disclosure.", "usage": "Disclosure reports and proposals, document gathering and review, disclosure lists, and inspection of the other side's disclosure.", "watch_for": "Review staffing and unit economics invisible inside JF20, exactly the L320 pattern; disclosure is where EW litigation cost concentrates.", "review_signal": "Documents reviewed per hour and reviewer mix on JF20, plus e-disclosure vendor costs read alongside, the L600-series economics applied to disclosure.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jf40" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JG10", "anchor": "jg10", "name": "Taking, preparing and finalising witness statement(s)", "description": "Identifying, tracing, and communicating with witnesses; preparing and serving statements, summaries, notices, and summonses.", "usage": "Identifying witnesses and preparing trial evidence, excluding interim application evidence.", "watch_for": "Statement drafting cycles per witness, since EW practice makes the written statement the evidence in chief.", "review_signal": "Hours per witness statement by witness significance.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jg10" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JG20", "anchor": "jg20", "name": "Reviewing Other Party(s)' witness statement(s)", "description": "Considering opposing statements and strategy on issues raised.", "usage": "Identifying witnesses and preparing trial evidence, excluding interim application evidence.", "watch_for": "Statement drafting cycles per witness, since EW practice makes the written statement the evidence in chief.", "review_signal": "Hours per witness statement by witness significance.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jg20" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JH10", "anchor": "jh10", "name": "Own expert evidence", "description": "Identifying, interviewing, and working with experts; developing reports; experts' discussions and questions.", "usage": "Identifying experts and preparing expert evidence for trial.", "watch_for": "Firm time paralleling expert fees, with EW expert charges now separately visible under expense X144.", "review_signal": "Combined firm-plus-expert cost per expert, with the X144 expense line completing the picture.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jh10" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JH20", "anchor": "jh20", "name": "Other Party(s)' expert evidence", "description": "Considering opposing expert evidence and questions to their experts.", "usage": "Identifying experts and preparing expert evidence for trial.", "watch_for": "Firm time paralleling expert fees, with EW expert charges now separately visible under expense X144.", "review_signal": "Combined firm-plus-expert cost per expert, with the X144 expense line completing the picture.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jh20" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JH30", "anchor": "jh30", "name": "Joint expert evidence", "description": "Joint expert evidence, as JH10 with modifications.", "usage": "Identifying experts and preparing expert evidence for trial.", "watch_for": "Firm time paralleling expert fees, with EW expert charges now separately visible under expense X144.", "review_signal": "Combined firm-plus-expert cost per expert, with the X144 expense line completing the picture.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jh30" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JI10", "anchor": "ji10", "name": "Case Management Conference", "description": "Preparing for and attending CMCs.", "usage": "CMCs, PTRs, and costs management hearings, excluding interim applications heard alongside.", "watch_for": "Preparation multiples on routine case management events.", "review_signal": "Prep-to-hearing ratios per event, docket-anchored.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#ji10" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JI20", "anchor": "ji20", "name": "Pre Trial Review", "description": "Preparing for and attending PTRs.", "usage": "CMCs, PTRs, and costs management hearings, excluding interim applications heard alongside.", "watch_for": "Preparation multiples on routine case management events.", "review_signal": "Prep-to-hearing ratios per event, docket-anchored.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#ji20" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JI30", "anchor": "ji30", "name": "Costs Management Conference", "description": "Preparing for and attending costs management hearings including budget variation hearings.", "usage": "CMCs, PTRs, and costs management hearings, excluding interim applications heard alongside.", "watch_for": "Preparation multiples on routine case management events.", "review_signal": "Prep-to-hearing ratios per event, docket-anchored.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#ji30" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JJ10", "anchor": "jj10", "name": "Applications relating to originating process or Statement of Case or for default or summary judgment", "description": "Service, jurisdiction, strike-out, amendment, and party-variation applications.", "usage": "All proposed and actual interim applications, categorized by application type.", "watch_for": "Application volume as a case-conduct signal, with the seven-way JJ split making the pattern legible by type.", "review_signal": "Cost per application by JJ category against outcomes, a sharper version of the L250 analysis.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jj10" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JJ20", "anchor": "jj20", "name": "Applications for an injunction or committal", "description": "Injunction and committal applications.", "usage": "All proposed and actual interim applications, categorized by application type.", "watch_for": "Application volume as a case-conduct signal, with the seven-way JJ split making the pattern legible by type.", "review_signal": "Cost per application by JJ category against outcomes, a sharper version of the L250 analysis.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jj20" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JJ30", "anchor": "jj30", "name": "Applications for disclosure or Further Information", "description": "Disclosure and further information applications.", "usage": "All proposed and actual interim applications, categorized by application type.", "watch_for": "Application volume as a case-conduct signal, with the seven-way JJ split making the pattern legible by type.", "review_signal": "Cost per application by JJ category against outcomes, a sharper version of the L250 analysis.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jj30" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JJ40", "anchor": "jj40", "name": "Applications concerning evidence", "description": "Evidence-related applications.", "usage": "All proposed and actual interim applications, categorized by application type.", "watch_for": "Application volume as a case-conduct signal, with the seven-way JJ split making the pattern legible by type.", "review_signal": "Cost per application by JJ category against outcomes, a sharper version of the L250 analysis.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jj40" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JJ50", "anchor": "jj50", "name": "Applications relating to Costs alone", "description": "Security for costs, costs capping, and protective costs orders.", "usage": "All proposed and actual interim applications, categorized by application type.", "watch_for": "Application volume as a case-conduct signal, with the seven-way JJ split making the pattern legible by type.", "review_signal": "Cost per application by JJ category against outcomes, a sharper version of the L250 analysis.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jj50" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JJ60", "anchor": "jj60", "name": "Permission applications", "description": "Permission applications including judicial review and appeal permission.", "usage": "All proposed and actual interim applications, categorized by application type.", "watch_for": "Application volume as a case-conduct signal, with the seven-way JJ split making the pattern legible by type.", "review_signal": "Cost per application by JJ category against outcomes, a sharper version of the L250 analysis.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jj60" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JJ70", "anchor": "jj70", "name": "Other applications", "description": "Applications not covered above.", "usage": "All proposed and actual interim applications, categorized by application type.", "watch_for": "Application volume as a case-conduct signal, with the seven-way JJ split making the pattern legible by type.", "review_signal": "Cost per application by JJ category against outcomes, a sharper version of the L250 analysis.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jj70" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JK10", "anchor": "jk10", "name": "Preparation of trial bundles", "description": "Identifying documents for, agreeing, preparing, and updating trial bundles.", "usage": "Trial preparation not covered by other phases, including bundles.", "watch_for": "Bundle preparation (JK10) at fee-earner rates where process staff fit, a uniquely visible line the US codes never isolated.", "review_signal": "Bundle cost per trial and the staffing mix on JK10.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jk10" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JK20", "anchor": "jk20", "name": "General work regarding preparation for trial", "description": "Trial strategy, witness preparation, cross-examination work, openings and closings, demonstratives, and arrangements.", "usage": "Trial preparation not covered by other phases, including bundles.", "watch_for": "Bundle preparation (JK10) at fee-earner rates where process staff fit, a uniquely visible line the US codes never isolated.", "review_signal": "Bundle cost per trial and the staffing mix on JK10.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jk20" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JL10", "anchor": "jl10", "name": "Advocacy", "description": "Advocate preparation of openings, closings, skeletons, witness examination, in-trial applications, and attendance.", "usage": "Advocacy preparation and all work from the first trial day.", "watch_for": "The advocate versus support split (JL10 versus JL20) blurring, which matters because EW costs assessment scrutinizes exactly that division.", "review_signal": "The JL10 to JL20 ratio per trial day, plus counsel fees on the expense side (X146, X147).", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jl10" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JL20", "anchor": "jl20", "name": "Support of advocates", "description": "Non-advocate trial-day work, attendances, conferences, travel, and waiting.", "usage": "Advocacy preparation and all work from the first trial day.", "watch_for": "The advocate versus support split (JL10 versus JL20) blurring, which matters because EW costs assessment scrutinizes exactly that division.", "review_signal": "The JL10 to JL20 ratio per trial day, plus counsel fees on the expense side (X146, X147).", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jl20" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JL30", "anchor": "jl30", "name": "Judgment and post-trial activity", "description": "Draft judgments, submissions on judgment and consequential orders, and hand-down hearings.", "usage": "Advocacy preparation and all work from the first trial day.", "watch_for": "The advocate versus support split (JL10 versus JL20) blurring, which matters because EW costs assessment scrutinizes exactly that division.", "review_signal": "The JL10 to JL20 ratio per trial day, plus counsel fees on the expense side (X146, X147).", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jl30" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JM10", "anchor": "jm10", "name": "Preparing costs claim", "description": "Reconciling claimed costs to budget and preparing the bill of costs for detailed assessment.", "usage": "Assessment or agreement of costs after trial or settlement, a phase with no US equivalent.", "watch_for": "The cost of arguing about costs going unmeasured, which is precisely what this phase exists to expose.", "review_signal": "JM-phase spend as a percentage of the costs recovered, the recovery-economics test applied to assessment itself.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jm10" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JM20", "anchor": "jm20", "name": "Points of dispute, Replies and Negotiations", "description": "CPR 47 procedural steps, Part 36 costs offers, and negotiations.", "usage": "Assessment or agreement of costs after trial or settlement, a phase with no US equivalent.", "watch_for": "The cost of arguing about costs going unmeasured, which is precisely what this phase exists to expose.", "review_signal": "JM-phase spend as a percentage of the costs recovered, the recovery-economics test applied to assessment itself.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jm20" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JM30", "anchor": "jm30", "name": "Hearings", "description": "Directions, interim certificate, and detailed assessment hearings.", "usage": "Assessment or agreement of costs after trial or settlement, a phase with no US equivalent.", "watch_for": "The cost of arguing about costs going unmeasured, which is precisely what this phase exists to expose.", "review_signal": "JM-phase spend as a percentage of the costs recovered, the recovery-economics test applied to assessment itself.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jm30" }, { "set": "J-Codes", "standard": "EW J-Codes (2014)", "code": "JM40", "anchor": "jm40", "name": "Post Assessment Work (excluding Hearings)", "description": "Post-hearing calculations and finalizing principal, interest, and assessment costs.", "usage": "Assessment or agreement of costs after trial or settlement, a phase with no US equivalent.", "watch_for": "The cost of arguing about costs going unmeasured, which is precisely what this phase exists to expose.", "review_signal": "JM-phase spend as a percentage of the costs recovered, the recovery-economics test applied to assessment itself.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/j-codes/#jm40" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L110", "anchor": "dri-l110", "name": "Fact Investigation/Development", "description": "Investigating and understanding facts: interviews, document review, investigator work, initial-assessment legal research, and related communication.", "usage": "Same scope as the ABA original, with each task's contents enumerated.", "watch_for": "Initial-assessment research continuing past evaluation; DRI folds initial legal research explicitly into L110.", "review_signal": "The enumerated bullets as the compensability checklist, especially L160's explicit inclusion of mediation travel and pre-litigation demand letters.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l110" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L120", "anchor": "dri-l120", "name": "Analysis/Strategy", "description": "Case strategy: discussions, writings, meetings, litigation plan preparation, and strategy communication.", "usage": "Same scope as the ABA original, with each task's contents enumerated.", "watch_for": "Initial-assessment research continuing past evaluation; DRI folds initial legal research explicitly into L110.", "review_signal": "The enumerated bullets as the compensability checklist, especially L160's explicit inclusion of mediation travel and pre-litigation demand letters.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l120" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L130", "anchor": "dri-l130", "name": "Experts/Consultants", "description": "Research, interviewing, and working with experts and consultants; developing reports; expert communication.", "usage": "Same scope as the ABA original, with each task's contents enumerated.", "watch_for": "Initial-assessment research continuing past evaluation; DRI folds initial legal research explicitly into L110.", "review_signal": "The enumerated bullets as the compensability checklist, especially L160's explicit inclusion of mediation travel and pre-litigation demand letters.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l130" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L140", "anchor": "dri-l140", "name": "Document/File Management", "description": "File organization and administration for database construction and management.", "usage": "Same scope as the ABA original, with each task's contents enumerated.", "watch_for": "Initial-assessment research continuing past evaluation; DRI folds initial legal research explicitly into L110.", "review_signal": "The enumerated bullets as the compensability checklist, especially L160's explicit inclusion of mediation travel and pre-litigation demand letters.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l140" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L150", "anchor": "dri-l150", "name": "Budgeting", "description": "Developing, editing, and corresponding on the budget.", "usage": "Same scope as the ABA original, with each task's contents enumerated.", "watch_for": "Initial-assessment research continuing past evaluation; DRI folds initial legal research explicitly into L110.", "review_signal": "The enumerated bullets as the compensability checklist, especially L160's explicit inclusion of mediation travel and pre-litigation demand letters.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l150" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L160", "anchor": "dri-l160", "name": "Settlement/Non-Binding ADR", "description": "Settlement-directed activities: discussions, conferences, implementation, mediation pursuit, mediation travel and attendance, pre-litigation demand letters, settlement research, and related communication.", "usage": "Same scope as the ABA original, with each task's contents enumerated.", "watch_for": "Initial-assessment research continuing past evaluation; DRI folds initial legal research explicitly into L110.", "review_signal": "The enumerated bullets as the compensability checklist, especially L160's explicit inclusion of mediation travel and pre-litigation demand letters.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l160" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L210", "anchor": "dri-l210", "name": "Pleadings", "description": "Drafting and editing pleadings, answering complaints, counterclaims, third-party complaints, motions to dismiss or strike, jurisdictional motions, and pleadings research.", "usage": "Pleadings and pre-trial motions other than discovery, with motion-to-dismiss work placed under pleadings.", "watch_for": "Jurisdictional and dismissal motions coded to L240; DRI puts them in L210.", "review_signal": "Consistent placement of dismissal and jurisdictional motions under L210, a DRI-specific convention.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l210" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L220", "anchor": "dri-l220", "name": "Preliminary Injunctions/Provisional Remedies", "description": "Remedy strategy, motions, affidavits, briefs, hearing preparation, hearing travel and attendance, witness preparation, and effectuating remedies.", "usage": "Pleadings and pre-trial motions other than discovery, with motion-to-dismiss work placed under pleadings.", "watch_for": "Jurisdictional and dismissal motions coded to L240; DRI puts them in L210.", "review_signal": "Consistent placement of dismissal and jurisdictional motions under L210, a DRI-specific convention.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l220" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L230", "anchor": "dri-l230", "name": "Court Mandated Conferences", "description": "Preparing for, traveling to, and attending court-ordered conferences and hearings.", "usage": "Pleadings and pre-trial motions other than discovery, with motion-to-dismiss work placed under pleadings.", "watch_for": "Jurisdictional and dismissal motions coded to L240; DRI puts them in L210.", "review_signal": "Consistent placement of dismissal and jurisdictional motions under L210, a DRI-specific convention.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l230" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L240", "anchor": "dri-l240", "name": "Dispositive Motions", "description": "Strategy, research, summary judgment motions, affidavits, opponent pleading review, defensive motions, and hearing preparation, travel, and attendance.", "usage": "Pleadings and pre-trial motions other than discovery, with motion-to-dismiss work placed under pleadings.", "watch_for": "Jurisdictional and dismissal motions coded to L240; DRI puts them in L210.", "review_signal": "Consistent placement of dismissal and jurisdictional motions under L210, a DRI-specific convention.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l240" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L250", "anchor": "dri-l250", "name": "Other Written Motions/Submissions", "description": "Developing, responding to, arguing, and researching motions other than dispositive, pleadings, and discovery.", "usage": "Pleadings and pre-trial motions other than discovery, with motion-to-dismiss work placed under pleadings.", "watch_for": "Jurisdictional and dismissal motions coded to L240; DRI puts them in L210.", "review_signal": "Consistent placement of dismissal and jurisdictional motions under L210, a DRI-specific convention.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l250" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L260", "anchor": "dri-l260", "name": "Class Action Certification and Notice", "description": "Class certification and notice proceedings unique to class and derivative litigation.", "usage": "Pleadings and pre-trial motions other than discovery, with motion-to-dismiss work placed under pleadings.", "watch_for": "Jurisdictional and dismissal motions coded to L240; DRI puts them in L210.", "review_signal": "Consistent placement of dismissal and jurisdictional motions under L210, a DRI-specific convention.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l260" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L310", "anchor": "dri-l310", "name": "Written Discovery/Interrogatories", "description": "Developing, responding to, and objecting to interrogatories and requests to admit; summarizing responses received.", "usage": "Same six-task discovery structure with materially expanded content inventories.", "watch_for": "Subpoena and authorization work, non-party production notices, and non-subpoenaed record gathering, all now explicitly in L320; IME work explicitly in L340.", "review_signal": "Record-acquisition and IME unit costs, which DRI's placement makes directly measurable on insurer portfolios.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l310" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L320", "anchor": "dri-l320", "name": "Document Production", "description": "Document requests and responses, production and privilege review, requests to produce, non-party production notices, subpoenas and authorizations, obtaining non-subpoenaed records such as tax and disability records, and summarizing subpoenaed documents.", "usage": "Same six-task discovery structure with materially expanded content inventories.", "watch_for": "Subpoena and authorization work, non-party production notices, and non-subpoenaed record gathering, all now explicitly in L320; IME work explicitly in L340.", "review_signal": "Record-acquisition and IME unit costs, which DRI's placement makes directly measurable on insurer portfolios.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l320" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L330", "anchor": "dri-l330", "name": "Depositions", "description": "Notices and subpoenas, scheduling communication, planning, strategy, witness preparation, document review for preparation, attendance, travel, and summaries.", "usage": "Same six-task discovery structure with materially expanded content inventories.", "watch_for": "Subpoena and authorization work, non-party production notices, and non-subpoenaed record gathering, all now explicitly in L320; IME work explicitly in L340.", "review_signal": "Record-acquisition and IME unit costs, which DRI's placement makes directly measurable on insurer portfolios.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l330" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L340", "anchor": "dri-l340", "name": "Expert Discovery", "description": "Expert discovery notices, scheduling, strategy, expert preparation and consultation, reviewing expert documents, records, and films, expert summaries, and independent medical examinations.", "usage": "Same six-task discovery structure with materially expanded content inventories.", "watch_for": "Subpoena and authorization work, non-party production notices, and non-subpoenaed record gathering, all now explicitly in L320; IME work explicitly in L340.", "review_signal": "Record-acquisition and IME unit costs, which DRI's placement makes directly measurable on insurer portfolios.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l340" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L350", "anchor": "dri-l350", "name": "Discovery Motions", "description": "Developing, responding to, and arguing discovery motions including the protective order process.", "usage": "Same six-task discovery structure with materially expanded content inventories.", "watch_for": "Subpoena and authorization work, non-party production notices, and non-subpoenaed record gathering, all now explicitly in L320; IME work explicitly in L340.", "review_signal": "Record-acquisition and IME unit costs, which DRI's placement makes directly measurable on insurer portfolios.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l350" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L360", "anchor": "dri-l360", "name": "Discovery On-Site Inspections", "description": "Site inspection travel and attendance.", "usage": "Same six-task discovery structure with materially expanded content inventories.", "watch_for": "Subpoena and authorization work, non-party production notices, and non-subpoenaed record gathering, all now explicitly in L320; IME work explicitly in L340.", "review_signal": "Record-acquisition and IME unit costs, which DRI's placement makes directly measurable on insurer portfolios.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l360" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L410", "anchor": "dri-l410", "name": "Fact Witnesses", "description": "Preparing examination and cross-examination of non-expert witnesses.", "usage": "Same seven-task structure, with jury instructions moved into L430 and enforcement enumerated at L470.", "watch_for": "Jury instruction work coded per the ABA original; DRI places it in L430 with motions in limine.", "review_signal": "L440's enumerated contents (mock trials, focus groups, off-site support offices) as pre-approval items, since DRI names the big-ticket trial preparation costs individually.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l410" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L420", "anchor": "dri-l420", "name": "Expert Witnesses", "description": "Preparing examination and cross-examination of expert witnesses.", "usage": "Same seven-task structure, with jury instructions moved into L430 and enforcement enumerated at L470.", "watch_for": "Jury instruction work coded per the ABA original; DRI places it in L430 with motions in limine.", "review_signal": "L440's enumerated contents (mock trials, focus groups, off-site support offices) as pre-approval items, since DRI names the big-ticket trial preparation costs individually.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l420" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L430", "anchor": "dri-l430", "name": "Written Motions/Submissions", "description": "Trial-stage motions, motions in limine, jury instructions, pre-trial filings, witness lists, proposed findings, and trial briefs.", "usage": "Same seven-task structure, with jury instructions moved into L430 and enforcement enumerated at L470.", "watch_for": "Jury instruction work coded per the ABA original; DRI places it in L430 with motions in limine.", "review_signal": "L440's enumerated contents (mock trials, focus groups, off-site support offices) as pre-approval items, since DRI names the big-ticket trial preparation costs individually.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l430" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L440", "anchor": "dri-l440", "name": "Trial Preparation and Support", "description": "Trial preparation, openings and closings, off-site support offices, evidence identification, demonstratives, deposition abstracts, mock trials, focus groups, jury research, and preparation travel.", "usage": "Same seven-task structure, with jury instructions moved into L430 and enforcement enumerated at L470.", "watch_for": "Jury instruction work coded per the ABA original; DRI places it in L430 with motions in limine.", "review_signal": "L440's enumerated contents (mock trials, focus groups, off-site support offices) as pre-approval items, since DRI names the big-ticket trial preparation costs individually.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l440" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L450", "anchor": "dri-l450", "name": "Trial and Hearing Attendance", "description": "Trial and hearing appearances, court-mandated conference appearances, travel, and trial-progression communication.", "usage": "Same seven-task structure, with jury instructions moved into L430 and enforcement enumerated at L470.", "watch_for": "Jury instruction work coded per the ABA original; DRI places it in L430 with motions in limine.", "review_signal": "L440's enumerated contents (mock trials, focus groups, off-site support offices) as pre-approval items, since DRI names the big-ticket trial preparation costs individually.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l450" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L460", "anchor": "dri-l460", "name": "Post-Trial Motions/Submissions", "description": "Developing, responding to, arguing, and researching post-verdict matters, with travel.", "usage": "Same seven-task structure, with jury instructions moved into L430 and enforcement enumerated at L470.", "watch_for": "Jury instruction work coded per the ABA original; DRI places it in L430 with motions in limine.", "review_signal": "L440's enumerated contents (mock trials, focus groups, off-site support offices) as pre-approval items, since DRI names the big-ticket trial preparation costs individually.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l460" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L470", "anchor": "dri-l470", "name": "Enforcement", "description": "Enforcing and collecting judgments and stay-pending-appeal filings.", "usage": "Same seven-task structure, with jury instructions moved into L430 and enforcement enumerated at L470.", "watch_for": "Jury instruction work coded per the ABA original; DRI places it in L430 with motions in limine.", "review_signal": "L440's enumerated contents (mock trials, focus groups, off-site support offices) as pre-approval items, since DRI names the big-ticket trial preparation costs individually.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l470" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L510", "anchor": "dri-l510", "name": "Appellate Proceedings/Motions Practice", "description": "Appellate research, motions and filings, responses, argument, motion hearings with travel, notices of appeal, record designation, extraordinary writs, petition responses, and appendices.", "usage": "Same three-task appellate structure with expanded procedural inventories.", "watch_for": "Record preparation and appendix work at merits rates.", "review_signal": "The procedural-versus-merits staffing split across L510 through L530.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l510" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L520", "anchor": "dri-l520", "name": "Appellate Briefs", "description": "Researching and preparing briefs, reviewing opposing briefs, and record review.", "usage": "Same three-task appellate structure with expanded procedural inventories.", "watch_for": "Record preparation and appendix work at merits rates.", "review_signal": "The procedural-versus-merits staffing split across L510 through L530.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l520" }, { "set": "DRI Litigation", "standard": "DRI (2007)", "code": "L530", "anchor": "dri-l530", "name": "Oral Argument", "description": "Argument preparation, arguing, travel, appeals communication, and appellate record preparation.", "usage": "Same three-task appellate structure with expanded procedural inventories.", "watch_for": "Record preparation and appendix work at merits rates.", "review_signal": "The procedural-versus-merits staffing split across L510 through L530.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/dri-litigation/#dri-l530" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM110", "anchor": "km110", "name": "Identify and Evaluate Explicit Knowledge", "description": "Identifying and evaluating formalized knowledge in internal and external databases, systems, and platforms.", "usage": "Assessing existing knowledge, expertise, processes, technology, and culture; KM100 itself is usable when the sub-task breakdown is not needed.", "watch_for": "Assessments rebuilt from scratch each cycle rather than maintained against prior findings.", "review_signal": "Declining assessment cost across cycles on a maintained knowledge base.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km110" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM120", "anchor": "km120", "name": "Identify and Evaluate Tacit Knowledge and Expertise", "description": "Identifying and evaluating unformalized knowledge, skills, and expertise inside and outside the organization.", "usage": "Assessing existing knowledge, expertise, processes, technology, and culture; KM100 itself is usable when the sub-task breakdown is not needed.", "watch_for": "Assessments rebuilt from scratch each cycle rather than maintained against prior findings.", "review_signal": "Declining assessment cost across cycles on a maintained knowledge base.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km120" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM130", "anchor": "km130", "name": "Identify and Evaluate Processes Enabling Knowledge and Expertise to Flow", "description": "Identifying and evaluating processes for collecting, retrieving, reusing, sharing, and transferring knowledge, and the organization's ability to collaborate.", "usage": "Assessing existing knowledge, expertise, processes, technology, and culture; KM100 itself is usable when the sub-task breakdown is not needed.", "watch_for": "Assessments rebuilt from scratch each cycle rather than maintained against prior findings.", "review_signal": "Declining assessment cost across cycles on a maintained knowledge base.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km130" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM140", "anchor": "km140", "name": "Identify and Evaluate Technology Supporting Processes", "description": "Identifying and evaluating the systems and interfaces enabling knowledge development and leverage.", "usage": "Assessing existing knowledge, expertise, processes, technology, and culture; KM100 itself is usable when the sub-task breakdown is not needed.", "watch_for": "Assessments rebuilt from scratch each cycle rather than maintained against prior findings.", "review_signal": "Declining assessment cost across cycles on a maintained knowledge base.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km140" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM150", "anchor": "km150", "name": "Identify and Evaluate Culture", "description": "Identifying and evaluating the cultural environment for knowledge development and mobilization.", "usage": "Assessing existing knowledge, expertise, processes, technology, and culture; KM100 itself is usable when the sub-task breakdown is not needed.", "watch_for": "Assessments rebuilt from scratch each cycle rather than maintained against prior findings.", "review_signal": "Declining assessment cost across cycles on a maintained knowledge base.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km150" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM160", "anchor": "km160", "name": "Benchmark Internally and Externally", "description": "Mapping evaluation results against business objectives and benchmarking against peers.", "usage": "Assessing existing knowledge, expertise, processes, technology, and culture; KM100 itself is usable when the sub-task breakdown is not needed.", "watch_for": "Assessments rebuilt from scratch each cycle rather than maintained against prior findings.", "review_signal": "Declining assessment cost across cycles on a maintained knowledge base.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km160" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM210", "anchor": "km210", "name": "Formulate Vision", "description": "Developing the future-state KM vision.", "usage": "Defining the KM vision, gap analysis, and strategies for knowledge, process, technology, culture, and change management.", "watch_for": "Strategy phases producing documents without the decision artifacts (gap analysis, KPIs) the later phases depend on.", "review_signal": "Each KM200 deliverable traceable into a KM300 implementation workstream.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km210" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM220", "anchor": "km220", "name": "Perform Gap Analysis", "description": "Identifying missing knowledge sources, processes, systems, and cultural elements.", "usage": "Defining the KM vision, gap analysis, and strategies for knowledge, process, technology, culture, and change management.", "watch_for": "Strategy phases producing documents without the decision artifacts (gap analysis, KPIs) the later phases depend on.", "review_signal": "Each KM200 deliverable traceable into a KM300 implementation workstream.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km220" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM230", "anchor": "km230", "name": "Develop Knowledge and Expertise Strategy", "description": "Defining the strategy to improve available knowledge and expertise.", "usage": "Defining the KM vision, gap analysis, and strategies for knowledge, process, technology, culture, and change management.", "watch_for": "Strategy phases producing documents without the decision artifacts (gap analysis, KPIs) the later phases depend on.", "review_signal": "Each KM200 deliverable traceable into a KM300 implementation workstream.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km230" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM240", "anchor": "km240", "name": "Develop Process Strategy", "description": "Defining the process strategy for access, retrieval, sharing, and leverage.", "usage": "Defining the KM vision, gap analysis, and strategies for knowledge, process, technology, culture, and change management.", "watch_for": "Strategy phases producing documents without the decision artifacts (gap analysis, KPIs) the later phases depend on.", "review_signal": "Each KM200 deliverable traceable into a KM300 implementation workstream.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km240" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM250", "anchor": "km250", "name": "Develop Technology Strategy", "description": "Defining the technology strategy for systems, simplification, and interfaces.", "usage": "Defining the KM vision, gap analysis, and strategies for knowledge, process, technology, culture, and change management.", "watch_for": "Strategy phases producing documents without the decision artifacts (gap analysis, KPIs) the later phases depend on.", "review_signal": "Each KM200 deliverable traceable into a KM300 implementation workstream.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km250" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM260", "anchor": "km260", "name": "Develop Culture Strategy", "description": "Defining the strategy to remove cultural barriers and incentivize sharing.", "usage": "Defining the KM vision, gap analysis, and strategies for knowledge, process, technology, culture, and change management.", "watch_for": "Strategy phases producing documents without the decision artifacts (gap analysis, KPIs) the later phases depend on.", "review_signal": "Each KM200 deliverable traceable into a KM300 implementation workstream.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km260" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM270", "anchor": "km270", "name": "Develop Change Management Strategy", "description": "Defining the change management strategy for systems, process, and cultural change.", "usage": "Defining the KM vision, gap analysis, and strategies for knowledge, process, technology, culture, and change management.", "watch_for": "Strategy phases producing documents without the decision artifacts (gap analysis, KPIs) the later phases depend on.", "review_signal": "Each KM200 deliverable traceable into a KM300 implementation workstream.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km270" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM310", "anchor": "km310", "name": "Implement Knowledge and Expertise Strategy", "description": "Executing the knowledge and expertise strategy through validated plans, communication, and KPIs.", "usage": "Executing the five strategies: stakeholder validation, project plans, communication, KPIs, and delivery.", "watch_for": "Implementation time without the KPI definitions KM310 through KM350 each require.", "review_signal": "Implementation spend per strategy stream against the KPIs defined at its start.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km310" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM320", "anchor": "km320", "name": "Implement Process Strategy", "description": "Executing the process strategy.", "usage": "Executing the five strategies: stakeholder validation, project plans, communication, KPIs, and delivery.", "watch_for": "Implementation time without the KPI definitions KM310 through KM350 each require.", "review_signal": "Implementation spend per strategy stream against the KPIs defined at its start.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km320" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM330", "anchor": "km330", "name": "Implement Technology Strategy", "description": "Executing the technology strategy.", "usage": "Executing the five strategies: stakeholder validation, project plans, communication, KPIs, and delivery.", "watch_for": "Implementation time without the KPI definitions KM310 through KM350 each require.", "review_signal": "Implementation spend per strategy stream against the KPIs defined at its start.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km330" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM340", "anchor": "km340", "name": "Implement Culture Strategy", "description": "Executing the culture strategy.", "usage": "Executing the five strategies: stakeholder validation, project plans, communication, KPIs, and delivery.", "watch_for": "Implementation time without the KPI definitions KM310 through KM350 each require.", "review_signal": "Implementation spend per strategy stream against the KPIs defined at its start.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km340" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM350", "anchor": "km350", "name": "Implement Change Management Strategy", "description": "Executing the change management strategy.", "usage": "Executing the five strategies: stakeholder validation, project plans, communication, KPIs, and delivery.", "watch_for": "Implementation time without the KPI definitions KM310 through KM350 each require.", "review_signal": "Implementation spend per strategy stream against the KPIs defined at its start.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km350" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM410", "anchor": "km410", "name": "Define", "description": "Defining what to measure, how, and how often across knowledge, processes, technology, and culture.", "usage": "Metrics and analytics on benefits from the new knowledge, process, technology, and culture state.", "watch_for": "Measurement defined once and never revisited as results arrive.", "review_signal": "KM430 reporting feeding changes to KM410 definitions, closing the loop the standard designs for.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km410" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM420", "anchor": "km420", "name": "Measure", "description": "Carrying out the defined measurements.", "usage": "Metrics and analytics on benefits from the new knowledge, process, technology, and culture state.", "watch_for": "Measurement defined once and never revisited as results arrive.", "review_signal": "KM430 reporting feeding changes to KM410 definitions, closing the loop the standard designs for.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km420" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM430", "anchor": "km430", "name": "Report", "description": "Reviewing and reporting measurement results.", "usage": "Metrics and analytics on benefits from the new knowledge, process, technology, and culture state.", "watch_for": "Measurement defined once and never revisited as results arrive.", "review_signal": "KM430 reporting feeding changes to KM410 definitions, closing the loop the standard designs for.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km430" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM510", "anchor": "km510", "name": "Maintain/Retain/Update Knowledge", "description": "Reviewing, refreshing, retaining, and archiving knowledge; capturing know-how from current matters.", "usage": "Maintaining enhanced knowledge, expertise, processes, technology, and culture against the vision.", "watch_for": "Maintenance work drifting back into full reassessment, which belongs in a new KM100 cycle.", "review_signal": "Steady-state maintenance cost as the baseline that makes KM investment cycles measurable.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km510" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM520", "anchor": "km520", "name": "Maintain/Retain/Update Expertise", "description": "Maintaining and renewing expertise through training, mentoring, and succession planning.", "usage": "Maintaining enhanced knowledge, expertise, processes, technology, and culture against the vision.", "watch_for": "Maintenance work drifting back into full reassessment, which belongs in a new KM100 cycle.", "review_signal": "Steady-state maintenance cost as the baseline that makes KM investment cycles measurable.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km520" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM530", "anchor": "km530", "name": "Maintain/Update Process Efficiency", "description": "Reviewing and maintaining KM processes.", "usage": "Maintaining enhanced knowledge, expertise, processes, technology, and culture against the vision.", "watch_for": "Maintenance work drifting back into full reassessment, which belongs in a new KM100 cycle.", "review_signal": "Steady-state maintenance cost as the baseline that makes KM investment cycles measurable.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km530" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM540", "anchor": "km540", "name": "Maintain/Support/Update Technology", "description": "Reviewing and maintaining KM systems and infrastructure.", "usage": "Maintaining enhanced knowledge, expertise, processes, technology, and culture against the vision.", "watch_for": "Maintenance work drifting back into full reassessment, which belongs in a new KM100 cycle.", "review_signal": "Steady-state maintenance cost as the baseline that makes KM investment cycles measurable.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km540" }, { "set": "Knowledge Mgmt", "standard": "Yerra KM (2014)", "code": "KM550", "anchor": "km550", "name": "Maintain Culture", "description": "Sustaining a knowledge-sharing culture through incentives, recognition, and reward.", "usage": "Maintaining enhanced knowledge, expertise, processes, technology, and culture against the vision.", "watch_for": "Maintenance work drifting back into full reassessment, which belongs in a new KM100 cycle.", "review_signal": "Steady-state maintenance cost as the baseline that makes KM investment cycles measurable.", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/knowledge-management/#km550" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "ADJSTR", "anchor": "adjstr", "name": "Adjuster", "description": "An insurance client-side position responsible for investigating, managing and settling a claim.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#adjstr" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "ADJSMT", "anchor": "adjsmt", "name": "Adjustment", "description": "Used to designate an adjustment to an invoice when LEDES 98B, LEDES 98BI or LEDES 2000 is used for the submission of ebills. Only to be used if specified by the 3rd party ebilling vendor; many systems do not recognize these codes. Should not be used when LEDES XML Ebilling ver. 2.0 or 2.1 is the submission format.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#adjsmt" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "ANALST", "anchor": "analst", "name": "Analyst", "description": "A mid-level position focused on conducting analysis services relevant to a matter, area of law or data.\n\nAnalyst services associated with eDiscovery should be noted as a Discovery Technician/Analyst (-Junior or -Senior).", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#analst" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "ARBITR", "anchor": "arbitr", "name": "Arbitrator", "description": "A unbiased third party designated by parties engaged in a dispute to preside over a hearing at which evidence and testimony is presented, and who renders a decision on the matter with which the parties agree in advance to comply.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#arbitr" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "ASSOC", "anchor": "assoc", "name": "Associate", "description": "An associate is a lower-level professionally licensed attorney who does not hold an ownership interest in a law firm.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#assoc" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "TRANEE", "anchor": "tranee", "name": "Associate Trainee", "description": "An individual who has a law degree and will qualify as an Associate at the completion of his or her required practical experience. Also called Trainee Solicitor or Articling Student. Typically used outside the US.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#tranee" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "AUDITR", "anchor": "auditr", "name": "Auditor", "description": "An individual whose job is to carefully check the accuracy of business records, including legal billing records. May be an employee of the client or work under contract to the client; may or may not be an attorney.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#auditr" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "CLKSEC", "anchor": "clksec", "name": "Clerk or Secretary", "description": "Lower-level administrative staff within the firm or legal vendor company. Includes, but is not limited to, Assistant, Clerk, Copy Staff, Courier, File Clerk, Scanner, Secretary, Support Staff, etc.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#clksec" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "CONSLT", "anchor": "conslt", "name": "Consultant", "description": "A person hired to provide professional advice or services for a fee. \n\nNot to be confused with a contract/outsourced/temporary resource, who is hired through a temporary or legal process outsourcing company. \n\nA Consultant is different than a Retained Expert. who has a specific skill or expertise and provides assistance on a legal matter with the potential to testify in a legal proceeding whereas a Consultant likely will not.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#conslt" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "TEMPAT", "anchor": "tempat", "name": "Contract Attorney", "description": "An attorney-level outsourced timekeeper working on a temporary, contract or consulting basis who is not regular employee of the firm.\n\nContract Attorneys differ from Staff Attorneys in that they are not law firm employees whereas Staff Attorneys are employees of the firm.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#tempat" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "TEMPOS", "anchor": "tempos", "name": "Contract Other Staff", "description": "Any outsourced non-attorney timekeeper working on a temporary, contract or consulting basis who is not regular employee of the firm.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#tempos" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "CSTCNS", "anchor": "cstcns", "name": "Costs Counsel", "description": "Specialist lawyer providing services related to costs. In the UK, a Costs Lawyer has a specialized certification and this is recognized as a specialist role.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#cstcns" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "CTRPTR", "anchor": "ctrptr", "name": "Court Reporter/Transcriptionist", "description": "Any professional responsible for memorializing the oral testimony of a party. Includes: Court Reporter; Deposition Clerk; Transcriptionist. Videographers are classified separately", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#ctrptr" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "DSCATT", "anchor": "dscatt", "name": "Discovery Attorney", "description": "Attorney specialist focused solely on discovery with sufficient technical knowledge to advise on electronic discovery strategy and negotiations.\n\nIt is possible for a law firm attorney to function in multiple capacities on a matter. This classification is specific to timekeepers providing only specialist services associated with discovery", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#dscatt" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "DSCPMG", "anchor": "dscpmg", "name": "Discovery Project Manager", "description": "An individual responsible for creation, communication and management of discovery project workflow to meet counsel requirements, deadlines and strategy goals. The project manager must have sufficient technical and legal knowledge to coordinate and translate between attorney and analyst teams.\n\nDifferent from Legal Project Manager because scope of work is limited to discovery.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#dscpmg" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "DSCANJ", "anchor": "dscanj", "name": "Discovery Technician/Analyst - Junior", "description": "A junior-level technical specialist with experience and training in discovery technology, procedures and practices for collecting, processing and managing ESI collections. The analyst can carry out defined work flow, conduct quality control to preserve evidence integrity and chain of custody.\n\nDifferent from Forensic Analyst because of the nature of the work performed.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#dscanj" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "DSCANS", "anchor": "dscans", "name": "Discovery Technician/Analyst - Senior", "description": "A senior-level technical specialist with the ability to consult with counsel and implement discovery technology, procedures and practices for collecting, processing and managing ESI collections. The senior analyst role includes creation of case specific protocols and communicating technical issues/options to counsel. Sometimes also referred to as a Litigation Support Manager.\n\nDifferent from Forensic Analyst because of the nature of the work performed.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#dscans" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "DOCCDR", "anchor": "doccdr", "name": "Document Coder", "description": "An individual trained to use technology to assess ESI and input objective coding fields to populate review database.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#doccdr" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "DOCRAT", "anchor": "docrat", "name": "Document Reviewer - Attorney", "description": "Attorney capable of using one or more review software systems to make relevance, privilege and other designations based on a matter protocol and issues.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#docrat" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "DOCRNA", "anchor": "docrna", "name": "Document Reviewer - Non-Attorney", "description": "Non-attorney reviewer or subject matter specialist capable of using one or more review software systems to make relevance, privilege and other designations based on a matter protocol and issues.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#docrna" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "EVDEVL", "anchor": "evdevl", "name": "Evidentiary Developer", "description": "A designer or developer specializing in creating animations or graphics used as evidence in a judicial proceeding and supporting the presentation of the material created at trial. Often also called Graphic Designer or Trial Presenter", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#evdevl" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "EXPERT", "anchor": "expert", "name": "Expert", "description": "A professional with special knowledge or proficiency in a particular field relevant to a matter who is external to the law firm and whose retention may result in testimony before a court", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#expert" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "FLTFEE", "anchor": "fltfee", "name": "Flat/Fixed Fee", "description": "Used to designate a flat or fixed fee billing arrangement between the firm and the client when LEDES 98B, LEDES 98BI or LEDES 2000 is used for the submission of ebills. Only to be used if specified by the 3rd party ebilling vendor; many systems do not recognize these codes. Should not be used when LEDES XML Ebilling ver. 2.0 or 2.1 is the submission format.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#fltfee" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "FORANL", "anchor": "foranl", "name": "Forensic Analyst", "description": "A technical position focused on forensic collection, analysis and extraction of ESI from computers, servers and mobile devices. Includes the capability of authenticating ESI as evidence and providing Chain of Custody documentation.\n\nDifferent from Discovery Technician because of the nature of the work performed.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#foranl" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "HLNLPF", "anchor": "hlnlpf", "name": "High-Level Non-Lawyer Professional", "description": "A senior-level non-attorney position within the law firm that may provide testimony in a legal matter. Includes: Accountant; Actuary; CPA; Compliance Professional; Construction Expert; Damages Specialist; Diversity Specialist; Engineer; Forensic Accountant; Government Affairs Specialist; Investigator; IP Specialist; Jury Consultant; Lawyer qualified in a country other than the one where that lawyer's work was performed; Legislative Monitor; Lobbyist; Media Relations Specialist; Medical Doctor; Ph.D.; Political or Grassroots Campaign Advisor; Regulatory Advisor; Scientist; Tax Specialist.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#hlnlpf" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "INVSTG", "anchor": "invstg", "name": "Investigator/Private Investigator", "description": "A professional external to the law firm tasked with investigating facts or individuals related to a matter. \n\nFor law firm employees that perform investigations use High-Level Non-Lawyer Professional. For client employees that investigate claims, use Adjuster.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#invstg" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "IPSVPV", "anchor": "ipsvpv", "name": "IP Service Provider", "description": "An external resource that provides Patent or Trademark services on behalf of a client or law firm. An IP Service Provider could be 1) non-attorney specialists with strong technical backgrounds who have not attended law school or who are in the process of attending law school, (2) admitted to practice before the jurisdictional patent or trademark courts but not any other jurisdictional courts, or (3) admitted to practice before the patent, trademark and any other jurisdictional court(s). \n\nThe important distinction is that an IP Service Provider is external to the client or law firm.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#ipsvpv" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "IPAGNT", "anchor": "ipagnt", "name": "IP Agent", "description": "An internal resource at the client or law firm that provides Patent or Trademark services.\n\nIP Agents could be non-attorney specialists with strong technical backgrounds who have not attended law school or who are in the process of attending law school, or who have been admitted to practice before the jurisdictional patent or trademark courts but not any other jurisdictional court. For the purposes of LEDES Timekeeper Classifications, any IP Agent admitted to practice before the patent or trademark court and any other jurisdictional court would be identified as a Partner, Of Counsel, Associate, Staff Attorney, or Staff Counsel/Attorney, as applicable.\n\nThe important distinction is that an IP Agent is internal to the client or law firm.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#ipagnt" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "LGLAST", "anchor": "lglast", "name": "Legal Assistant", "description": "A mid-level position within a legal organization, used only when the timekeeper has not been licensed or certified by a jurisdictional authority where required. Paralegal should be used if the timekeeper has a certification or license issued by a jurisdictional authority where required.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#lglast" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "LGLINT", "anchor": "lglint", "name": "Legal Intern", "description": "Any law student or non-student clerk working at a law firm in an internship, co-op, or summer associate program.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#lglint" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "LGPRMG", "anchor": "lgprmg", "name": "Legal Project Manager", "description": "A project manager who manages a matter or complex transaction for the client. A Legal Project Manager is a non-practicing attorney designation. If services are provided by an practicing attorney, the attorneys classification should be used in lieu of Legal Project Manager.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#lgprmg" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "LIBRRN", "anchor": "librrn", "name": "Librarian", "description": "A law firm librarian, typically providing research services to the client.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#librrn" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "MEDITR", "anchor": "meditr", "name": "Mediator", "description": "A person, usually a lawyer, retired judge, or non-attorney specialist, who tries to bring people and their disputes to early resolution. After discussing the legal issues in a conference, a mediator makes non-binding recommendations to the parties as to how a dispute could be settled.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#meditr" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "MDRCRV", "anchor": "mdrcrv", "name": "Medical Records Reviewer (Non-Certified Specialist)", "description": "A medical records specialist without a professional medical certification (RN or MD), who reviews and provides analysis of medical records in legal matters but who does not testify at court.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#mdrcrv" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "OFCOUN", "anchor": "ofcoun", "name": "Of Counsel", "description": "An attorney employed by the law firm who is not an associate or a partner but who is on track to become partner or who was previously a partner and is now retired. Typically Of Counsel timekeepers are:\n- A status in the firm senior to associate but not yet partner. In this situation counsel receives a salary and may have a measure of compensation based on the profitability of the partnership.\n- An attorney who has changed careers entirely, i.e., a former judge or government official, or one transitioning from corporate/in-house practice to law firm practice.\n- A retired partner of the firm who, although not actively practicing law, nonetheless remains associated with the firm and available for occasional consultation.\n- A lawyer who is, in effect, a probationary partner-to-be, sometimes a lateral hire brought in with the expectation of becoming partner after a relatively short period of time.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#ofcoun" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "NBOTHR", "anchor": "nbothr", "name": "Other", "description": "A status to indicate a system user who does not provide services that are billed to the client.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#nbothr" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "PARALG", "anchor": "paralg", "name": "Paralegal", "description": "A mid-level position within the firm, used only when the timekeeper has a certification or license issued by a jurisdictional authority where required (as in the State of California). Legal Assistant should be used if the timekeeper has not been licensed or certified by a jurisdictional authority where required.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#paralg" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "PARTNR", "anchor": "partnr", "name": "Partner", "description": "A partner owns and directs the business of a law firm and may be either an equity or non-equity shareholder. \n- Equity partners are considered to have ownership stakes in the firm, and share in the profits and losses of the firm. \n- Non-equity partners are generally paid a fixed salary, and may be granted certain limited voting rights with respect to firm operations.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#partnr" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "RSRCHR", "anchor": "rsrchr", "name": "Research Specialist/Researcher", "description": "A person engaged in scholarly or scientific investigation or inquiry. Common within Europe and Asia. \n\nAny researcher who is also a law firm librarian should be coded as Librarian. Different from an Investigator who investigates facts or individuals related to a matter.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#rsrchr" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "RSPROF", "anchor": "rsprof", "name": "Responsible Professional", "description": "An non-insurance client-side position responsible for managing a matter who is not an attorney.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#rsprof" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "SECNDE", "anchor": "secnde", "name": "Secondee", "description": "Attorney (associate, partner or of counsel) of the firm seconded to the client", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#secnde" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "SPAGNT", "anchor": "spagnt", "name": "Service of Process Agent", "description": "Any professional tasked with delivering or receiving legal notices. Not to be confused with an internal or external messenger function", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#spagnt" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "SOLDSG", "anchor": "soldsg", "name": "Solution Designer", "description": "A technical position responsible for building portals, apps or custom legal utilities", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#soldsg" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "STFATT", "anchor": "stfatt", "name": "Staff Attorney", "description": "A practicing attorney within the law firm with permanent status having the quality of tenure and lacking an expectation of promotion to full partner status. Often these attorneys are specialists in a specific area of expertise like IP. May include part-time practitioners. \n\nAs opposed to Contract Attorneys who are employees of an Other Legal Service Provider (Column H of this sheet) or Staff Counsel/Attorneys who is an employee of the client.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#stfatt" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "STFCNS", "anchor": "stfcns", "name": "Staff Counsel/Attorney", "description": "An internal client resource that is a lawyer\n\nAs opposed to Contract Attorney, who is an employee of an Other Legal Service Provider (Column H of this sheet), or Staff Counsel/Attorney, who is an employee of the client.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#stfcns" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "TPADMN", "anchor": "tpadmn", "name": "Third Party Administrator", "description": "Any organization or person who handles or manages claims as a third party representative of the client. Client is often an insurance company.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#tpadmn" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "TRAINR", "anchor": "trainr", "name": "Trainer/Instructor/Educator", "description": "An individual who actively provides training, instruction or educational program services", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#trainr" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "TRNDEV", "anchor": "trndev", "name": "Training/Education Program Developer", "description": "An individual who creates training or education programs.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#trndev" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "TRNFAG", "anchor": "trnfag", "name": "Transfer Agent", "description": "A trust company, bank or similar financial institution assigned by a corporation to maintain records of investors and account balances and transactions, to cancel and issue certificates, to process investor mailings and to deal with any associated problems (i.e. lost or stolen certificates).", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#trnfag" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "TRANSL", "anchor": "transl", "name": "Translator", "description": "A non-attorney specialist who provides language translation services. If services are provided by an attorney, the attorney's classification should be used in lieu of Translator.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#transl" }, { "set": "Timekeeper", "standard": "LOC (2014)", "code": "VIDOGR", "anchor": "vidogr", "name": "Videographer", "description": "Any professional responsible for memorializing the video testimony of a party. Court Reporters/Transcriptionists are classified separately.", "usage": "", "watch_for": "", "review_signal": "", "page_url": "https://swiftwaterco.com/utbms-codes/timekeeper-classifications/#vidogr" } ] }