Most in-house legal teams treat outside counsel invoices as an administrative checkpoint. The work is done, the invoice arrives, someone checks it against the billing guidelines, and it gets approved for payment. While that review matters, it is only the first layer of value. For General Counsel, invoices are a source of operational intelligence that is rarely used to their full potential. Examined systematically, billing records show how work is staffed, where costs concentrate, which matters are drifting beyond scope,...