Your Client's AI Is Reading Every Line of Your Invoice: Why Time-Entry Quality Became a 2026 Revenue Issue

Standard billing rates rose roughly 9.6% year over year while realization sits near 88% — and the gap is increasingly decided by automated invoice review on the client side. As corporate legal departments deploy AI to audit legal bills line by line, the quality of a time-entry narrative has become a direct determinant of whether a firm gets paid. Here is what changes for firms of every size.