Many Ways to Meet Your Lawyer – Personal Injury – Divorce – Civil Suits
...re less likely to have billing and payment issues. I usually have a non refundable component, a “consultation fee” of perhaps $1000. That non refundable component gets the client the most experienced lawyer in the area, and a buffer of say $500 of free services if the services exceed the retainer, AND a discount of perhaps 25% per hour if the fee exceeds that. Think of it as a form of insurance. 16. Thus, I share in “the pain” of a case that becom...