Billing Specialist – Remote Jobs

Position Summary

Our Financial Operations Department has the opportunity for a Billing Specialist to join the firm’s expanding practice. The Billing Specialist position is responsible for managing a portfolio of client bills. This includes working with attorneys on production of the bills with emphasis on understanding the importance of adhering to client guidelines.

Essential Functions

• Resolve billing-related issues from internal and external clients.
• Resolve complex billing issues by working with the Billing Attorney, practice assistant and client.
• Proactively recommend improvements to existing processes.
• Prioritize and meet aggressive deadlines.
• Maintain a list of special arrangements, billing guidelines, attorney preferences, billing rates, fee caps, formatting and expense requirements for client matters and ensure these requirements are adhered to.
• Collaborate with the eBilling Team to assist in the successful submission of bills, along with resolving rejections and appeals.
• Work with the Rates Team to ensure rates are properly assigned per client guidelines.
• Collaborate with attorneys and staff to create, distribute, edit, post and submit legal bills via various delivery methods.
• Track status of insurance company billing engagements to ensure compliance with billing requirements set forth by various insurance company clients, and/or those serving as insurers to existing clients.
• Work with the Matter Information Team on updates to client matters requested by clients or attorneys once matters are opened.
• Prepare adhoc reports, providing analysis of financial and historical billing data.
• Coordinate with other teams within the Financial Operations department to address questions/problems related to the billing process.

Requirements

• Must be customer service oriented with strong problem solving skills
• Ability to work overtime, as needed in order to fulfil the firm’s goals
• 2+ years of billing experience required
• Must be detailed oriented and possess strong organizational skills
• Ability to work under pressure and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly with Excel and Outlook
• Aderant and Prebill Viewer experience is a plus
• Legal billing experience preferred
• Strong oral and written communication skills including the ability to interact with all levels of staff and attorneys

Please note, we are not working with outside recruiters for this position.

Benefits

Ogletree Deakins offers a robust suite of benefits for our Staff including: Paid Time Off, Sick Time, a 401(k) matching program, Profit Sharing, Paid Holidays, Paid Parental Leave, affordable Health and Life Insurance including Dental & Vision coverage, Health Savings Account /Flexible Spending Accounts to help offset the cost of dependent care and/or health care expenses, Teladoc (24/7 access to a doctor by phone or online video), Tuition Reimbursement and an Employee Assistance Program.

Firm Overview

Ogletree Deakins is one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management in all types of employment-related legal matters. Premier client service, as outlined in the firm’s Client Pledge , is one of the firm’s top priorities and a cornerstone of its core values. U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” has named Ogletree Deakins a “Law Firm of the Year” for 11 consecutive years. In 2022, the publication named Ogletree Deakins its “Law Firm of the Year” in the Employment Law – Management category. Ogletree Deakins has more than 950 attorneys located in 55 offices across the United States and in Europe, Canada, and Mexico. The firm represents a diverse range of clients, including many of the Fortune 50 companies in the U.S.

We are fully committed to the importance of diversity within the legal profession, as well as all workplace environments and strongly encourage the interest of diverse candidates in the firm.

Equal Opportunity Employer.