Selected Article
Advantages of Boutique Law Firms
Law Force fights for the rights of their clients and protect their interests in litigation and commercial disputes.
Our clients are the centre of our business, and their success is our focus. We fight for their rights and protect their interests in litigation and other legal disputes across a broad range of industries.
In recent years, there has been a growing recognition by industry experts and the wider community that smaller, leaner, more focused firms can operate more efficiently and at least as effectively as larger big-brand firms and at a fraction of the cost.
Medium to large, big-brand law firms are most effective at providing repetitive volume litigation services to large corporate clients (such as Australia wide finance recovery litigation against consumers for a national bank), or litigation involving issues uniquely faced by big business such as cross-jurisdictional issues, issues impacting on multi -entity taxation strategies, or the need for scale to deal with large volume discovery documentation requirements.
However, those firms carry significant overheads which necessitate an operational model focused on maximising employee and partner billable hours per job which can lead to complaints of “churning”, "gouging" and overcharging, and can result in clients questioning whether they are getting value for money.
The Advantages of Boutique Law Firms
Smaller, leaner, more focused boutique firms are able to:
- efficiently maintain lower overheads and use those savings to offer services at significantly more competitive rates.
- focus on providing clients with excellent service, instead of focusing on maximising billing to achieve billable hour targets. The Law Force billing model allows us focus to be on what is needed (or not needed) in a particular case to achieve a win for the client, in contrast to being based on maximising billings per client in order to meet billable hour performance targets.
- take on individual matters (large or small) for clients and give them proper attention, rather than taking on process-driven volume work. Being lean and nimble, Law Force can give our client matters the care and proper individual attention they require, allowing us to be more flexible in our approach towards advancing their client’s interests and resolving disputes in the most cost-effective and time-efficient manner.
Within our areas of operation, by providing personalised client-centric services and industry-leading fair-billing practices, Law Force offers greater transparency and better value for money for quality legal services than much larger big brand firms.