This month’s tip is provided by Nickie Freedman of LegallyLarge – www.legallylarge.com. The tips are neither meant as legal advice, nor binding on the State Bar of Texas.
Many solo and small-firm practitioners devise innovative approaches to billing. One approach is "unbundling." Unbundled cases are offered to a client as a cafeteria plan of options, with strict adherence to ethical requirements, allowing the client to pay per task. Clients are able, for example, to pay for drafting a legal brief or arguing a case in court or legal research, rather than paying a flat fee for the entire case. This increases the clients' sense of control over their cases and allows a greater number of low and middle-income individuals to afford legal services. For the solo and small-firm practitioner, there is increased access to a client base who might not otherwise be available and the satisfaction of providing legal services to clients who otherwise may have been left out of the legal picture altogether.
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