Crane discussed a number
of alternative fee arrangements including discounted and volume discounts (e.g. 15 per cent on the standard hourly rate, for example, when fees billed exceed $ 100,000 a year), and blended hourly rates (such as $ 400 / hr blended rate for all lawyers on a file or $ 300 / hr for associates and $ 500 / hr for partners), as well as fixed and capped fees.
Jonathan discusses key developments shaping the market, the increasing
prevalence of alternative fee arrangements, regulatory developments, and the growing understanding of litigation funding as an important access to justice tool.
I attended the «Embracing Alternative Fee Arrangements: Applying Data Analytics to Move Beyond the Billable Hour» panel at LegalWeek in New York, and the panelists weighed in on the pros and
cons of alternative fee arrangements («AFAs») and why and how «lawyers should embrace AFAs» and stop «running away from them.»
The percentage of Corporate, General, Tax matters having billings under some sort
of alternative fee arrangement continues to dominate the field, with the percentage of billings executed under an AFA for this matter type holding steady at 12.4 percent.
But I'm so interested in talking about this publication and its importance to the developing
field of alternative fee arrangements (AFAs, a topic we're focused on these days at Edge) that I'm willing to blur genres — and in any event, at 150 pages, it's not like this is a pamphlet.
The Consero survey found that 61 % of the 52 attorneys surveyed from Fortune 1000 companies utilize alternative fee arrangements, and that 60 % of the attorneys plan to increase the use
of alternative fee arrangements over the next twelve months.
In the latest BTI Consulting Group report, «BTI
State of Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs),» LTL ATTORNEYS LLP (LTL) was named by corporate counsel as one of only 22 firms of the 650 law firms serving the Fortune 1000 as best at developing and delivering AFAs.
Alternative Fee Arrangements: Field Law has experience with a broad
range of alternative fee arrangements (AFAs), including providing legal services on a fixed fee basis for project work, fixed fees for larger portfolios of work, contingency fee arrangements, blended hourly rate and contingency fee arrangements, and blended hourly rate and performance based holdbacks.
A powerful chain of events — a series of earlier tipping points — have led the law first to the wholesale
adoption of alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) and subsequently to adoption of LPM as the way to deliver on those AFAs.
This chart shows the percentage of matters using some
sort of alternative fee arrangement in the Pharmaceutical and Professional, Scientific and Technical Services industries between 2011 and 2014.
The Quebec Bar Association's report proposes the adoption
of alternative fee arrangements.