Apex Law Legal Billing

One of the main reasons people are reluctant to hire a lawyer is because they know people who have spent thousands of dollars on legal fees to achieve nothing.

At Apex Law Firm you pay nothing up front.

Here is how it works by practice area:

Personal Injury: Our person injury practice, like most, is done on a “contingency fee” basis. A contingency fee means that you do not pay anything up front and we get a portion of the recovery in the end. Like you, we’re motivated to maximize the overall recovery payable to you.

Landlord/Tenant and Estate Planning: For our transactional practices we bill at a “flat fee.” This means that instead of requiring you to pay a retainer and then bill you hourly as work is performed, we sell the service to you at a flat, reduced fee. This encourages us to resolve your matter efficiently rather than padding our billable hours as some firms have been accused of doing. You know up front the exact and final amount you will pay for the service, and you are free to communicate with us without fearing the clock.

The billable hour and why we will don’t use it at Apex Law Firm.

The billable hour is traditionally how most law firms and lawyers are paid. An amount is set at the beginning of the representation and law firms require clients to pay a retainer of several thousand dollars up front before they will begin work. Larger law firms assign lawyers billable hour targets. In the back of each lawyer’s mind is the looming prospect that they will not meet their “billable target” or that other associates aspiring for partner will out bill them.

Unfortunately, this sometimes leads to inflated bills. Apex Law firm has nothing to inflate. Flat fees are known from the first day of representation and contingency percentages are established on the first day of representation.

If you cannot pay following your representation we will work out a payment plan to focus on your case first, rather than getting paid.