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LEDES Budgets

Any list of tasks should allow you to enter budgets or estimates such that if you enter time against these tasks you can then track this entered time against your original budgets. These budgets can either be entered directly into an application or loaded elecronically into the application via e-budgeting.

LEDES Budget XML File Validator

LEDES is an e-billing format orientated for invoices or bills between law firms and their clients, largely used where the firm works on behalf of many of their client's clients, for example for where an insurance firm contracts out its work to a law firm for the cases it receives.
These formats provide a good example of how bills can be loaded for a set of tasks.
The work can be budgeteted for and the Budget XML format caters for this.
Below is an example of budget data displayed in the latest LEDES format;


This page is setup to allow validation of that format.
If you would like to validate your own file (it has to be the latest standard provided, LEDES XML), simply create your XML file, then select it using the dialog below. The results of the validation will be placed into the window above.


Just below are a couple of sample files in case you don't have time to create your own, or for if you want to check the validator is working. Simply download the files (right click, locate desktop or other directory, press ok/close to save), then upload into the validator to see the results;

Sample (1), right click this link and save as to download a valid LEDES budget file;
Sample (2), right click this link and save as to download an invalid LEDES budget file to demonstrate validation errors;