Anyone and everyone that refers someone, chooses a repeat client service, or sends in
their retainer as a new client NOW through DEC 15, 2017 will be put into a drawing for a $ 100 Pottery Barn Kids gift card.
Not exact matches
One of the
new provisions states, «Before undertaking a limited scope
retainer, the lawyer must advise the
client about the nature, extent, and scope of the services that the lawyer can provide and must confirm in writing to the
client as soon
as practicable what services will be provided.»
Interviews with 253 SRL's in my recent study (http://www.representing-yourself.com/PDF/reportM15.pdf) expose the reality that despite a decade of provincial Law Societies drafting
new rules of professional conduct on limited scope
retainers (LSR's) or unbundled legal services — when lawyers provide services on an hourly basis for specific contracted tasks — lawyers who regularly offer their
clients LSR's are still about
as rare
as a shooting star on a cloudy night.
Consider adding a single page check - box questionnaire
as part of your
retainer package for
new clients asking how they came to your firm and which of your communication activities they have encountered.
«
As you are approving
new clients, you should also ask for a
retainer (of a quarter to half the value of the work) up front....
When a lawyer is interviewing a
new client and finds out one of these greedy pigs is on the other side, they know they had better get a big
retainer because the other lawyer will never let the case settle
as long
as they can keep their
client angry and willing to pay for a fight.