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LEDES 1998B Format

LEDES 101: 02/09/2019 by Easy Legal Billing Team

The most common LEDES used today is LEDES 1998B format and is the successor to LEDES 1998.

LEDES 1998B format is a pipe delimited format with 24 fields. Newer versions of LEDES formats have been created, including LEDES 2000 and LEDES XML E-Billing, but according to LEDES.org: LEDES 1998B “is the most-widely used electronic billing standard in the legal industry.”

Easy Legal Billing currently supports the LEDES 1998B format, which can be downloaded or attached with any invoice sent to users. Click for more information on LEDES or our web-based LEDES billing software!


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