While the project focuses on mediation - related unbundled legal services, much will be learned
about unbundled legal services in general.
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(Dr. Julie MacFarlane, «Listening to the Public: Getting the Public and the Profession on the Same Page
about Unbundled Legal Services», in The Canadian Bar Association, Alberta Branch, The Limited Scope Retainer (The Canadian Bar Association) at 20 [MacFarlane].
Comment, The Changing Face of Legal Practice: Trends in Thinking
About Unbundled Legal Services — Twenty - Six Recommendations From the October 2000 Baltimore Conference (page 26)
Honorary Member Professor Julie McFarlane and Co-Founder Mick Hassell were recently quoted in The Lawyers Weekly speaking
about unbundled services for self - reps and in particular the National Database of Professionals Assisting Self - Represented Litigants.
I feel like I just dove right in and started talking
about unbundled services and limited scope representation and maybe in 2017 most lawyers, that's fair.
Thanks for talking
about unbundled services and I hope we'll hear more from you soon.
«I think this process gives the client a degree of control that lawyers don't normally give clients,» Joel Miller is quoted as saying
about unbundled legal services.
Top Judges push for unbundled legal services: Honorary Member Professor Julie McFarlane and Co-Founder Mick Hassell were recently quoted in The Lawyers Weekly speaking
about unbundled services for self - reps and in particular the National Database of Professionals Assisting Self - Represented Litigants.
But when I first started talking
about unbundling products and charging an asset - based fee in 2003, it was heretical.
They haven't really grasped the opportunities that exist because there is still some anxiety
about unbundling,» he says.
Since then, conversations and buzz
about unbundling has been doing the rounds here in BC and elsewhere:
So there has to be clear direction from the Chief
about unbundling and that it is to be fostered not discouraged.
Woody has also published numerous articles
about unbundling in a variety of law journals.
«Woody Mosten has successfully practiced what he has so persuasively preached
about unbundling legal services and now he has written a comprehensive guide to delivering legal services a la carte.
The initiative generated significant interest and energy
about unbundling, and demonstrated the important role of A2JBC as a connector between justice system stakeholders.
When he first learned
about unbundling, one lawyer from the Okanagan was excited to announce that he was providing unbundled services to small claims litigants using a flat fee.
Not exact matches
As the CRTC gets serious
about cable
unbundling, broadcasters are scrambling to find sure - thing content and unexplored niches.
Arguments
about the appeal of «
unbundling,» or the ability to pay only for the content a subscriber specifically wants, are widespread.
Baker is excited
about the airline industry overall, writing that «cost convergence, fare
unbundling, widespread consolidation, diminished new entrant activity, and return - oriented management teams have combined to form an industry that is actually managing itself for the first time we can recall.»
«We need to start looking at some changes that we need to make within and among ourselves as a government irrespective of whether it is federal, state or local government — that will now
unbundle the potentials of each state which is the cornerstone of the whole message we are talking
about» he said.
Thinking
about the future, he concludes: «I am hopeful that the current time and money bundles in education get
unbundled so that there is a much richer ecosystem of options available for kids.»
But I'm optimistic
about the potential of
unbundling the role of the teacher and leveraging technology to create an online system for measuring and tracking student learning growth that has the rigor of human - graded assessment, the advantage of quick feedback cycle times, and the validity and reliability that come from standardization.
Clients now wield more power in the relationship with their lawyer, as they have benefited from greater access to information
about cost, greater ability to
unbundle services and an expanding array of alternative law firms from which to source work.
«News and information
about collaborative divorce, mediation, direct negotiations,
unbundled legal services, name changes, adoptions, and LGBT family law.»
For many years, the profession has been talking
about alternative billing schemes such as flat fees,
unbundled legal services, and pay - what - it's - worth options.
There are lawyers who offer
unbundled services, who are passionate
about the injustice of forcing full retainers on litigants, as this effectively blocks their accessibility to the justice system.
Many state bar associations have also published articles
about the need for attorneys to offer
unbundled legal services and more affordable and accessible legal services to the public.
Two of our previous posts lists helpful information
about finding
unbundled lawyers.
Sam Glover: By way of moving to a close here, where should lawyers go for a resource if they want to learn more
about how to do
unbundling services?
So Sam, Lawyerist has been around for 10 years and in that time you've probably either written or solicited 50 posts related to
unbundled services and alternative pricing models and I'm excited for today's conversation but I'm also a little wary because it's hard for me to conceive how this is still a thing we need to talk
about.
Sam Glover: Fair, if you're listening and you think
unbundled services are stupid and unethical or just stupid, hit me up on Twitter, drop me a line and I'd like to have you on the podcast and we can fight
about it.
The lawyers that
unbundle care
about helping.
Sam Glover: What kind of guidance can we give to lawyers who are favorable to
unbundling whether because of this podcast or already were but just aren't sure how to go
about implementing it.
Forrest, you talked
about one of the benefits being that when you do
unbundled services you get paid upfront and you're not carrying bills from your clients.
I have written before
about how lawyers can use
unbundling as part of a marketing strategy for their law firms to differentiate themselves from traditional full - service law firms that stick to the billable hour model.
How do you price your
unbundled services and how do you talk
about that with clients?
Webb v. Birkett is a cautionary tale
about the dangers of
unbundling in the context of collaborative family law.
Even all the talking
about access to justice inside the legal establishment seems to mostly steer clear of controversial topics and ideas (think para-legals, SRLs,
unbundled legal services...).
Unbundled services are something to brag
about, too.
I'll be talking
about more of these in the future, but in this post I'll discuss
unbundling, also known as the limited - scope retainer.
Limited retainers and possible
unbundling of legal services will bring more challenges for lawyers to communicate as clearly as possible
about what they are retained to do and not retained to do, as well as the potential consequences of what they're not being retained to do.
The Wired GC politely refers to «
unbundling corporate legal services,» but really (s) he's talking
about invoking the service ethic buried in an old hamburger jingle (Burger King's «Have it your way») when it comes to helping corporate GC's cut costs.
This is not a conference or speaker - thon... it's
about connecting with other attorneys just like you who have built successful, thriving practices delivering
unbundled legal services.
Ask us
about attorney court representation in either limited scope,
unbundled or full serivce capacity.
Unbundled legal services, limited scope retainers, law à la carte, discrete task representation — whatever you want to call it — is fraught with confusion and myths
about its risks.
I fear «
unbundling» fails to convey a clear idea
about what
unbundled legal help means... so not the optimal marketing hook perhaps.