The traditional law practice, then, doesn't translate all that well
into affordable legal services.
Not exact matches
If you don't have an attorney and want an
affordable approach, look
into a
service like
Legal in a Box.
Small firm solicitor
services are very
affordable and should never be lumped
into the discussion of
legal services unafforability.
The law societies do not give sufficient importance to the interactions among: (1) the problem and its consequences — the thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of
affordable legal services provided by competent lawyers; (2) the power of the internet, the social media, and the news media together, to make those consequences
into a public and political issue so quickly that there will not be time for the law societies to publish a persuasive response, and which issue will compel government intervention by way of programs on the way to socialized law; (3) the fact that self - regulation of the
legal profession has been lost by the law societies in several jurisdictions of the common law world and the U.S; [7] and, (4) the fact that the consequences of the unavailability of
legal services at reasonable cost will motivate the many non-lawyer
legal service providers to offer
legal services that should be provided by lawyers, to people desperate for a lawyer's
services that they can not afford.
A virtual law practice offering these
services permits an attorney to tap
into a large market need for accessible and
affordable legal services to lower and moderate - income individuals.
The same concept applies to clients and
legal services: If outsourcing makes
legal services more
affordable in the U.S. and injects competition
into the market, then bring it on!
The Access
Legal Care «system» is based on 12 key components: 1) be profitable for the attorneys and legal - services providers; 2) apply the Pareto principle — focus on the 20 % of all legal services that 80 % of lower - and moderate - income people will likely ever need; then prune / refer - out those that are high - complexity / high - dollar (too risky) and contingency cases (already affordable); 3) process - map the remaining services into individual steps; 4) functionally - decompose each process step to the lowest - cost provider who can perform the step legally and with excellence; 5) streamline processes with Six Sigma and manufacturing principles; 6) centralize operations for economies of scale; 7) collaborate and out - source to expand reach; 8) leverage technology to minimize costs and maximize productivity; 9) make affordable with both terms and price; 10) generate high demand, high - volume; 11) develop multiple revenue streams; and 12) package up the system and re-sell it to other law firms and cli
Legal Care «system» is based on 12 key components: 1) be profitable for the attorneys and
legal - services providers; 2) apply the Pareto principle — focus on the 20 % of all legal services that 80 % of lower - and moderate - income people will likely ever need; then prune / refer - out those that are high - complexity / high - dollar (too risky) and contingency cases (already affordable); 3) process - map the remaining services into individual steps; 4) functionally - decompose each process step to the lowest - cost provider who can perform the step legally and with excellence; 5) streamline processes with Six Sigma and manufacturing principles; 6) centralize operations for economies of scale; 7) collaborate and out - source to expand reach; 8) leverage technology to minimize costs and maximize productivity; 9) make affordable with both terms and price; 10) generate high demand, high - volume; 11) develop multiple revenue streams; and 12) package up the system and re-sell it to other law firms and cli
legal -
services providers; 2) apply the Pareto principle — focus on the 20 % of all
legal services that 80 % of lower - and moderate - income people will likely ever need; then prune / refer - out those that are high - complexity / high - dollar (too risky) and contingency cases (already affordable); 3) process - map the remaining services into individual steps; 4) functionally - decompose each process step to the lowest - cost provider who can perform the step legally and with excellence; 5) streamline processes with Six Sigma and manufacturing principles; 6) centralize operations for economies of scale; 7) collaborate and out - source to expand reach; 8) leverage technology to minimize costs and maximize productivity; 9) make affordable with both terms and price; 10) generate high demand, high - volume; 11) develop multiple revenue streams; and 12) package up the system and re-sell it to other law firms and cli
legal services that 80 % of lower - and moderate - income people will likely ever need; then prune / refer - out those that are high - complexity / high - dollar (too risky) and contingency cases (already
affordable); 3) process - map the remaining
services into individual steps; 4) functionally - decompose each process step to the lowest - cost provider who can perform the step legally and with excellence; 5) streamline processes with Six Sigma and manufacturing principles; 6) centralize operations for economies of scale; 7) collaborate and out - source to expand reach; 8) leverage technology to minimize costs and maximize productivity; 9) make
affordable with both terms and price; 10) generate high demand, high - volume; 11) develop multiple revenue streams; and 12) package up the system and re-sell it to other law firms and clinics.
She then went
into private practice and started this firm in 2011 with the philosophy that you shouldn't have to choose between
affordable and quality
legal services — you can have both.
So, by expanding the market for
affordable legal services, technology brings more clients
into the
legal market and offers lawyers the tools to serve them more efficiently.
My wish for Access for Justice in Canada this holiday season is that every lawyer in Canada commit to assisting at least one SRL over the holiday season with unbundled
legal services at an
affordable hourly rate — and that they enjoy working with a SRL so much that they make this a permanent part of their practice going forward
into 2015.