Bottomline Customer Forum on Legal Spend Management Draws Top Property and Casualty Insurers

Discussions Highlight Innovation in Legal Spend Management Products and Services

PORTSMOUTH, NH – May 17, 2007 – Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY), a leading provider of collaborative payment and invoice automation solutions, today commenced its annual Legal Spend Management Customer Advisory Board, bringing together top legal and claims executives from some of the nation’s leading property and casualty insurers to examine best practices for managing litigation costs and outside counsel relationships.

Many property and casualty insurers rely on the expertise of their outside law firms to secure the best possible outcome on litigated cases. Combining compelling customer use cases with discussions featuring Bottomline’s Legal Spend Management solutions, this interactive forum provides attendees with the opportunity to exchange ideas and best practices for leveraging legal e-billing as a mechanism for establishing productive, efficient relationships with their outside counsel.

“Legal spend data can be a powerful tool for building a strategic framework for litigating different types of claims,” said Tom Gaillard, Vice President and General Manager of Bottomline Technologies. “We’re delighted to host a targeted forum that helps our customers explore emerging approaches to legal e-billing and collaboration, and come away with new ideas about managing legal spend.”

With a network of more than 4,000 law firms, Bottomline helps corporate legal and insurance claims departments to manage legal spend more efficiently through the adoption of electronic invoice management processes. With the ability to access and analyze data electronically, users can collaboratively align and manage budgets and case handling strategies with outside counsel, while also establishing benchmarks from which future performance can be measured.