Costs lawyers, not software
Legal costs expertise behind the review, with context and judgment applied to every query.
Know what every matter should cost.
Independent legal spend review by specialist costs lawyers — so you can check every invoice, forecast with confidence, and show your CFO exactly what legal is buying.
A Legal Costs Consultants company
Sixth Minute acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live and work, and their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.
Legal budgets are rising.
Make every bill accountable.
A clearer view of what you pay.
A stronger basis for what comes next.
Clarity
Understand what each invoice buys, with every query grounded in the work and your engagement terms.
Confidence
See whether faster, AI-assisted work is reflected in the fees you are asked to pay.
Control
Bring budgets, forecasts and panel oversight into one conversation with Finance.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCRUTINY
What we stand for.
Stronger working relationships
Our aim is to strengthen your relationship with your lawyers. Clear, fair and well-supported conversations about fees help resolve questions constructively and build trust for the work ahead.
Clear fees
Start with a fixed-fee Health Check, with the scope and fee agreed before work begins.
Proudly Australian owned and operated
Legal spend review informed by Australian legal costs practice.
Specialist foundations
A Legal Costs Consultants company, bringing specialist costs law experience to your legal spend.
Built for Finance too
Reporting your CFO can use, as well as your legal team.
01 / WHAT WE DO
Costs expertise, applied
before the money leaves.
Most spend tools tell you what you've spent. We tell you whether you should have. Sixth Minute is run by costs lawyers who assess legal bills for a living — the same scrutiny a court-appointed costs assessor would apply, brought to your invoices before you pay them.
Three things, done properly:
Invoice review
Every line checked against the engagement terms, the work actually needed, and what that work fairly costs.
Look closerSpend reporting
A clear dashboard and a quarterly report your CFO can read in five minutes.
See the bigger picturePanel oversight
Budgets, rate cards and billing guidelines that firms actually follow.
Bring clarity to your panelTHE TIME CHANGES.
THE BILL SHOULD TOO.
Before4h
With AI40m
Illustrative task comparison
02 / WHY IT MATTERS NOW
AI should be making legal work cheaper.
Check that it is.
Firms are adopting AI fast, and many are charging more for it. When a task that took four hours now takes forty minutes, the bill should show it. Our review looks at where those efficiencies appear in the bill.
- Time recorded for work a tool now does
- Unchanged estimates for work that is now faster
- “AI-assisted” entries with no matching saving
- Technology charges passed through as disbursements
Each query is considered against the engagement terms and the work actually required.
Make every minute accountable03 / BUILT FOR THE CONVERSATION WITH FINANCE
Give your CFO
the numbers
they're asking for.
Bring a clear view of legal spend to your next conversation with Finance. Our reporting is designed for that meeting: spend by firm, matter and work type, variance against budget, and what was queried and recovered.
Sixth MinuteILLUSTRATIVE REPORT
YOUR LEGAL SPEND, IN FOCUS
A clearer view.
A better conversation.
Spend by firm & matter
Variance against budget
Fees queried & recovered
Forecast & next steps
Quarterly reporting · Designed for decision-makers
ABOUT US
Specialist expertise.
A personal approach.
Sixth Minute is a Legal Costs Consultants company, bringing specialist legal costs experience to the way you review and manage legal spend.
Charlotte Morson
Principal Lawyer
Charlotte is an experienced litigator and legal costs specialist. Before focusing on costs law, she spent more than ten years working on complex litigation in the NSW and Federal courts.
Her practice includes complex costs disputes, class actions and expert reports for Supreme Court and Federal Court proceedings. She brings practical insight into how legal work is carried out, and what it should fairly cost.
A PRACTICAL PLACE TO START
Start with one firm,
one year.
Our fixed-fee Legal Spend Health Check reviews twelve months of a single panel firm's invoices and tells you what you'd do differently. No subscription required.
Book a Health Check
A fixed fee, agreed upfront.
No subscription required.