Against this backdrop comes a new
lawyer bidding site, Lawtendr, launched by a lawyer in Toronto and serving the legal markets in the U.S., the UK, Canada and Australia.
Not exact matches
Lawyers representing six of the defendants have spent the past several weeks in a new letter - writing campaign to a federal judge seeking dismissal of the
bid - rigging corruption charges leveled against individuals involved in several major upstate economic development programs, including the mega-construction project at Tesla's Riverbend
site in South Buffalo.
The premise of the
site, which is called EagleFee, is that consumers can benefit by having
lawyers bid to represent them on a contingency fee basis.
There are
lawyer -
bidding sites that have not gone out of business.
Bob Ambrogi recommends «A new «reverse - auction» Web
site, Tip - Mart, which enables purchasers of legal services to accept
bids from interested
lawyers and law firms.»
As I said, these
lawyer -
bidding sites tend to come and go.
Against this backdrop comes another
lawyer -
bidding site, Jurbid, which launched Monday.
Still, it costs nothing to register for these
sites, so at least
lawyers can experiment to determine how the
bidding process works for them.
So what are
lawyers saying about
bidding sites?
On Monday, March 7, the
lawyer -
bidding site Lawtendr will change its name to LawPitch.
A new «reverse auction» Web
site, Tip - Mart, enables purchasers of legal services to accept
bids from interested
lawyers and law firms.
Lawyers registered with the
site browse the postings and then
bid for the work, choosing an hourly, contingent or a flat fee structure.
In the «dot - com boom and bust» era, there were several experiments with
lawyer bidding, but all the
sites failed because they could generate enough revenue.