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> 1) Don't try and save time (or at least don't focus on that), lawyers charge by time spent, saving time looses them money. But if you became quick enough tha
by andrew1 16y ago
> 1) Don't try and save time (or at least don't focus on that), lawyers charge by time spent, saving time looses them money.
But if you became quick enough that you could make a point of it to your clients, then presumably you could charge more per hour. Exaggerated example, but if you could say to your clients (and back it up with previous cases) that the work that other companies are quoting them a year to do will only take you six months, but you want 50% more per hour then that works out well for the both of you?
- elblanco 16y agoYou'd probably need some really good and hard metrics on that to make a case...say my lawyer normally charges $400/hr, now she wants to charge me $700/hr but claims, "I can do it twice as fast". I'm not sure I'm totally sold on that claim. I found that the time saving messaging fell absolutely flat (we can cover the same number of documents x-times faster). The only message that resonated was the coverage messaging (we can cover more documents during the limited discovery period)...and then only with firms that were working cases that involved hundreds of thousands of documents -- too much for them to staff up on. The case/document management aspect of it seems to be where the real interest level lies and if you can offer lots of capability for drawing connections between disparate groups of documents it could have some true value. A digital organizer capable of aiding connection building. At least that's what I remember. We did a bit of research into the market before deciding not to chase it due to the level of funding we would need to get a product to market.