Surviving the Litigation Pressure Cooker

Surviving the Litigation Pressure Cooker

Revised 08/27/18 Companies locked in the litigation pressure cooker can experience financial meltdown as the opposition turns up the heat.  An abusive yet common litigation tactic is to force settlement by causing the adversary to incur heavy attorney fees in discovery and pretrial motion practice.  Here’s some of the fastest financial resource burners: Written Interrogatories – These are written questions about your defenses and claims. Company staff can spend days working with Attorneys preparing carefully…

How to be Smart About Being Different

How to be Smart About Being Different

The legal profession is a conservative lot when it comes to developing innovative business models. Despite the loss of market shares to alternative internet based legal service providers such as LegalZoom and Rocket Lawyer, most law firms are still clinging to the traditional law firm business model of churning out as many billable hours as possible. Some progressive law firms, however, are finding success in developing alternative practice models outside the traditional law firm culture….

Time to Cut Free of the Billable Hour

Time to Cut Free of the Billable Hour

All across America law firms are scrambling to retain clients in a market that now favors the consumer. Clients have more choices these days with the pace of bar admissions outstripping the demand for lawyers. A growing number of businesses are no longer willing to be held captive to the traditional billable hour law practice model. Some attorneys, mostly in larger metropolitan areas, are developing alternative practices that do away with extravagant downtown offices and…