Flat Rate Billing Model

“the question that you as a client trying to hire a firm should be asking yourself and asking the person you're talking to is how did the firm get to that flat rate”

“a typical way that criminal defense attorneys set their rates is they look at what everyone else is doing and they just set their rates either the same higher or lower there is absolutely no control on the quality of services with that model there's no reason for it it's just the industry industry standard”

“the best way to set a flat rate price for any criminal defense practice or any practice that uses flat rate billing models is to look at the amount of work that is done on a case over a course of numerous cases”

“at wright law group what we did with our prices is we looked over the course of a number of years of our firm being open we looked at all of the cases that we've worked on of a specific type so with that we said okay we have all of these people who have first time duis how much work went into this how much time on average did the attorney spend in court how much time on average did the paralegal spend drafting motions getting pleadings filed getting the discoveries collected getting it sorted how much time went into this dui case”

“we did that across hundreds of cases that we've had in our firm and then we took those numbers and we averaged them out and then we assigned a low billable hour rate so we looked at what the average standard industry standard is for attorneys paralegals legal assistance we set that hourly rate and then we averaged all of that out and we got the base amount the average amount of cost for a dui case in colorado springs”

“we have actual data to back up our prices when you're talking to a criminal defense attorney you need to see do they have reasons for their prices do they have data to back it up and you know why they are actually setting the prices the way that they do”