Not exact matches
If you're lucky, there's another person there who has
tried it and maybe is even
billing flat fees and then you can have maybe a drink with them later and have a productive conversation but that automatic defensiveness that that's not how we do it, it won't work, is one of the most toxic things that I see and it doesn't mean that you have to adopt everything but I feel like a willingness to engage with new ideas or even just other ideas is probably the one biggest most important thing that lawyers can do and learn how to test those ideas, bounce them off of people who will listen and engage with them too.
From day one, we started with hourly
billing,
flat fees, both of which are fairly standard in our kind of legal practice but we wanted to
try something new.
On litigation I haven't done as much work in terms of
trying to get either
flat fee, or to not exceed numbers for different portions of litigation, but certainly I think that's something I might be interested in, if I was going out to look for a new firm, rather... Rely on litigation context is understanding how a firm
bills and how an individual attorney
bills.
If you are ready to
try flat -
fee billing, here are some questions to consider.