Are you searching for a business law firm with San Diego legal cost containment strategies? Corporate owners and financial managers are constantly searching for ways to reduce expenditures, and the Watkins Firm provides several legal cost containment strategies to help accomplish this goal. The billing methodology of large law firms leaves their corporate customers confused and concerned about what appear to be extraordinary costs. In order to fulfill their own financial models, large corporate law firms must bill several components into each invoice they send to their clients, including:
- Billings from multiple levels of the organization, including partners, staff attorneys, paralegals, and secretarial staff
- Unnecessary legal costs such as rounding up hours, and unnecessary legal process steps
- Multiple personnel billing for the same task
- Overhead costs
In one recent example, a new client shared a billing strategy from a former legal firm that invoiced them for a site visit in a construction defect case that included their expert witness as well as multiple members of the firm, even on of their paralegals. Isn’t that what your expert witness is for? This simply pads the bill unnecessarily, and many of our clients moved to the Watkins Firm after growing tired of trying to understand complex legal invoices. They were simply paying far too much for defense work and legal fees.
The Watkins Firm provides our customers with written San Diego legal cost containment strategies, approaching our legal billing strategy from a different perspective: our clients. We do not “stack” unnecessary reviews or billings from multiple levels of our organization on your company’s file. In fact, our goal is to move work to the least expensive yet competent level where work can be cost-effectively performed while maintaining the highest level of quality. There are times where a paralegal can accomplish tasks in place of a senior attorney, and this saves our clients money. We obtain advance authorization from our clients for any activity that will generate substantial cost (such as out-of-town travel or retaining experts). We don’t round up time, we bill for the exact amount of effort that was required to efficiently manage your case.
If you are looking for legal cost containment strategies while partnering with experienced and proven corporate attorneys for general business counsel and support for business litigation issues we invite you to review the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.
