Providing temporary use of web-based software to legal and claims departments and to outside law firms who represent them to perform legal and related functions, namely, manage matters, invoices, budgets, status reports, and documents from outside counsel firms, invoicing, time and billing, case management and analysis, electronic e-billing, business intelligence extrapolation and secure messaging with detailed data on attorney performance that includes costs, staffing, duration, predictive accuracy, and evaluations by clients