Billing Narrative Editor — Legal Copy Specialist

DLA Piper; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

DLA Piper is seeking a Legal Specialist, Copy Editor to review, edit, and refine pre-bill narratives ensuring invoices reflect legal services accurately and comply with client guidelines and firm standards.

You will partner with attorneys, billing teams, and finance to improve clarity, consistency, and professionalism of billing narratives while maintaining confidentiality in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience reviewing detailed content for accuracy, grammar, consistency, and compliance.
• Experience working with legal terminology, legal documents, or attorney-generated content.
• Experience supporting attorney billing processes or client invoicing in a law firm environment.
• Experience interpreting and applying outside counsel guidelines and client billing requirements.
• Exceptional proofreading, copyediting, and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Review and edit pre-bill narratives for accuracy, clarity, grammar, punctuation, style, and consistency.
• Partner with partners, attorneys, legal support professionals, and billing teams to revise time entry descriptions to reflect legal work performed.
• Ensure billing narratives comply with firm billing standards, client guidelines, and best practices for invoice presentation.
• Identify unclear, incomplete, duplicative, inconsistent, or non-compliant narrative entries and coordinate revisions.
• Standardize billing language and formatting across matters while preserving the substantive description of legal services.
• Conduct detailed quality assurance reviews of invoices to ensure content accurately reflects attorney work product and client engagement requirements.
• Assist in developing and maintaining style guides, editing standards, and narrative best practices for billing descriptions.
• Provide guidance to attorneys and business professionals regarding effective billing narrative drafting.
• Collaborate with Finance, Billing, Pricing, and Practice Group teams to support billing quality initiatives.
• Maintain confidentiality of client, matter, financial, and attorney information.

Skills

Legal terminology

Proofreading

Copyediting

Billing narratives

Attention to detail

Communication

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Bachelor’s degree in English, Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies, Business, Finance, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Legal billing software

Job description

DLA Piper is seeking a Legal Specialist, Copy Editor to review, edit, and refine pre-bill narratives ensuring invoices reflect legal services accurately and comply with client guidelines and firm standards.

You will partner with attorneys, billing teams, and finance to improve clarity, consistency, and professionalism of billing narratives while maintaining confidentiality in a hybrid work environment.