http://myshingle.com/2008/07/articles/client-relations/greatest-american-lawyers-rejoinder-to-the-well-drafted-retainer/ Great Things Come in Small [Law] Practices! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://myshingle.com/2008/07/articles/client-relations/greatest-american-lawyers-rejoinder-to-the-well-drafted-retainer/comment-page-1/#comment-3011 Enrico S. Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:39:10 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/2008/07/articles/uncategorized/greatest-american-lawyers-rejoinder-to-the-well-drafted-retainer/#comment-3011 C: Great post. You correctly note that our flat fee deliverable approach really makes retention easy.We define the deliverables, quote a flat rate and get email agreement. We then issue a flat fee bill. If it is paid, we know we are retained. Of course, when we do charge hourly for complex litigation, we still set budgets. And we still avoid the retainer agreement since clients can always adjust their monthly fee as they see fit. Our extranet sets expectations and provides information to the client. As a partner at my old firm, it too often took days to get a client signed up to a retainer agreement and receive the initial retainer. Now, our process makes it almost instantaneous so we can get to work! C: Great post. You correctly note that our flat fee deliverable approach really makes retention easy.We define the deliverables, quote a flat rate and get email agreement. We then issue a flat fee bill. If it is paid, we know we are retained.
Of course, when we do charge hourly for complex litigation, we still set budgets. And we still avoid the retainer agreement since clients can always adjust their monthly fee as they see fit. Our extranet sets expectations and provides information to the client.
As a partner at my old firm, it too often took days to get a client signed up to a retainer agreement and receive the initial retainer. Now, our process makes it almost instantaneous so we can get to work!

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