One of the legacies of the first conference that I attended over a year ago is that I’m still reading other women’s blogs that I’d have never encountered but for the conference. And it’s through one of those blogs that I learned about a franchise called Dinner My Way where you pay to cook your own meals to take home and freeze for meals throughout the next few weeks. Dinner My Way pre-cuts all of the ingredients, provides recipes and utensils, but you still do the work. The apparent appeal of this set up is that you retain control over the food, you prepare all your meals at once (so you save time) and get the satisfaction of claiming credit for a home cooked meal.
Reading about this insane idea (really, what it boils down to is that you are paying someone to do your own work), I marvelled at the way the idea has been packaged – and then wondered whether there was some way that lawyers could make this work for us. Could we set up forms in our office for simple legal transactions and have clients pay to come in and fill them out themselves? Would clients pay a few hundred dollars to draft their own uncontested divorce petition or simple will or any of the other documents that groups like We the People provide? If something like this can work for food, seems that there should be a way to make it work for law.
Related posts:
- When You’re the Boss, You Don’t Beg For Work Life Balance. You Make It So.
- Why I Won’t Let My Clients Set My Fees: It’s Not Their Job to Do My Work
- Solo Snags A Client from Biglaw Firm Willing to Work for Free
- Making Your Clients’ Cases Pay for Themselves
- Oh, Biglaw: Why Pay $60k for Lawyers to Do Non-Profit Work When You Could Pay Them To Build A Lucrative Practice?
