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"Still Not Offering Clients Alternative Fees? Beware!"

This post was written by Tom Kane: "If you still don't like the idea of offering clients alternative fees or value pricing options, then how about just letting the client decide how much they want to pay for legal services? WHAT!!!, you say. A pretty far fetched (or ludicrous) idea, right?

Not so fast. CMS Cameron McKenna, a UK firm with more than 1000-lawyers, is offering that as an option to "3500 existing and prospective clients" as part of its alternative fee program, according to an article on The Lawyer by Gavriel Hollander. They are also offering an oil company fees based on the price of oil, and another a "no questions asked" fixed fee for a "one-stop deal."

To be eligible clients must agree to the majority of work being managed by an associate, and agree "to give Camerons more than a third of all legal work..."

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Source: Legal Marketing Blog.com, 20 August 2010, reproduced with permission of the author

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on August 24, 2010 (boomark / email).