LedesKit: LEDES 1998B invoices without a full practice-management suite

Many corporate and insurance clients will not pay a PDF invoice. They require a LEDES 1998B file — a 24-field, pipe-delimited ASCII format — uploaded to their e-billing portal. Full practice-management suites can generate them. Solos still billing from spreadsheets often cannot.

LedesKit is live

• Use it free: sybilgambleyyu.github.io/LedesKit
• Source (MIT): github.com/SybilGambleyyu/LedesKit

What you get

• Invoice header fields (client ID, matter IDs, firm ID, billing period)
• Fee and expense lines with common UTBMS task, activity, and expense codes
• Validation before download
• Preview of the exact .LED file
• CSV time-entry import and import of existing .LED files
• Firm defaults · sample invoice · local-only storage (no upload)

Honest limits

Not affiliated with LEDES.org. Not a full time-and-billing system. Portals differ — confirm firm IDs and allowed codes against each client’s guidelines.

Also shipping: DrawBook for construction schedule-of-values pay apps.