Flat fee arrangements are amazingly liberating. Most of my fellow litigators won’t take a case on a flat fee, either because they are concerned that they will grossly underestimate the time the case is going to take and end up with an effective hourly rate of $25, or simply because they think they’ll make more…
Category: Alternative Fee Arrangements
Sleazy Attorney Technique No. 8: The Phantom Settlement Offer
Yesterday’s post about flat fees made me think of a war story which just happens to illustrate Sleazy Attorney Technique no. 8. When I first started practicing I had to be hit over the head with this technique a few times before I knew what was happening. I tend to assume the best of people…