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“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”
“i can tell you on average when we're looking at our pricing in our law firm we generally for let's do the ui example we generally lose money in our firm we lose about four to five hundred dollars a case on dui's on average because the amount of work that we do actually would be more expensive if we were doing an hourly model but to keep it fair for all of our clients we set that flat rate for everyone so that no one has to pay more than they should”
“one other thing that i may get in trouble for is a lot of firms don't even have set prices and that is the secret thoughts that most clients don't know and most attorneys don't want you to know but a lot of firms go and they say well this person's telling me this story they seem to have a good job i think they can afford this much so i'm going to charge them that much”
“at wright law group what we do is we have set prices for set cases there is no deviation there is no this person seems like they're very rich so i'm going to charge them a thousand more dollars they're set we have a list of prices that you can see it's exactly the same in every single case”
“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”
“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”
“a lot of firms don't even have set prices and that is the secret thoughts that most clients don't know and most attorneys don't want you to know”
“we generally lose money in our firm we lose about four to five hundred dollars a case on dui's on average because the amount of work that we do actually would be more expensive if we were doing an hourly model but to keep it fair for all of our clients we set that flat rate for everyone so that no one has to pay more than they should”
“i don't want them basing what i pay them off of my job or whether i make good money or not i want them saying well this is what this case is going to cost this is what it costs to have this case done right and that's what i'll pay”