Most can do all sorts of work faster, better and
cheaper than law firms.
Not exact matches
Many prospective
law firm clients often ask us why they should pay more for our email marketing software
than for software offered by one of the
cheaper email blast services (we all know who they are).
Even so, SEO is often the first type of
law firm Internet marketing that
firms will test out since it's often
cheaper than PPC.
Set up in the UAE last year, The Bench is able to offer
cheaper rates to clients because it is free from high overheads such as offices, meaning clients pay roughly half the price for senior lawyers
than they would at a big
law firm.
You are wrong if you think that Walmart
law for personal injury or any litigation is going to be
cheaper than going to any one of the large number of independent small
firm litigation lawyers.
(i) BMO reducing its roster of
firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister
firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their
firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is
cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv)
firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of
firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium
law» work; (ix) the introduction of full time project managers in many
firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.
Many of the services that
law firms now provide, such as managing documents in litigation or due diligence, are being done by new vendors like NovusLaw, which markets itself as «The Compelling Alternative for Routine Legal Work,» and promises to do that work «faster, better,
cheaper»
than a full - service
law firm.
Many ALSPs offer services formerly provided only by
law departments or
law firms, that help clients solve legal and business problems «better / faster /
cheaper»
than law departments and
firms; they specialize in developing legal technologies / automation, staffing inexpensive and swift cost centers to perform routinize - able tasks, and offering sophisticated expertise to deliver solutions via managed service offerings that can solve client problems or help advance their clients» businesses: all for a fraction of the cost and with a quantifiable level of consistency and competence.
If a party refuses to honor their contract, the typical next step is to have a lawyer to write the party a sternly worded «demand letter» on
law firm letterhead that makes the party realize he, she, or it has a legal obligation and it will be
cheaper to pay
than to fight.
Fold articling and bar admission courses into
law school curricula + add a 4th year to
law school for specialization: (1) because the great shortage of jobs compels more new lawyers to become sole practitioners earlier
than they should have to, given the present
law school course content and purpose; and, (2) because of the need to specialize earlier so as to increase the efficacy of their qualifications earlier; (3) articling jobs are now scarce, and increasing shortages of clients is causing
law firms to more frequently and thoroughly use articling
law students as a source of
cheap labour.
It is
cheaper than a PC and something for any
law firm moving to the cloud to consider as an alternative to a PC.
The cynical argument that
law firms will continue to recruit
cheap labour in the form of trainees, rather
than more expensive trained and experienced lawyers, doesn't really hold water for a sector driven by quality demands.