What
we do
Party/Party
Cost Recovery
• Bills
of costs, objections and assessments
•
Appearances
on Taxation
Solicitor-
Own Client Costs
•
Cost Agreements
•
Compliance
with Legal Profession Act
•
Cost Estimating
•
Practice Management
•
Time Billing
Expert
Evidence
•Gross Sum Cost Applications
•
Security for costs
• Debt
Recovery proceedings
•
Professional Conduct Matters
• Negligence
Actions
Alternative Billing
•
Alternative Billing Strategies
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Litigation
Budgets
•
Legal Project Management
• Dupont
Legal Model
• In house
Counsel/External Counsel relationships
and
CLE
Why
we are different
•
We find the best solution,
not just the obvious
• We take a pragmatic, cost effective
approach
• Our level of knowledge, expertise
and experience is superior
• Our consultants are lawyers
with substantial practice management
experience
• We offer a complete solution
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Harris
Cost Lawyers specialize in all aspects
of legal costs and practice management
All our consultants are lawyers with substantial practice management experience.
Our level of knowledge, expertise and experience is superior. We work with you, not for you. Offering the complete solution.
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 CLE Seminars Through our associated company, Harris & Associates Consulting Pty Ltd, we can offer CLE seminars tailored to your requirements, covering legal costing, the Legal Profession Act, cost agreements, file management, e-billing, alternative billing, budgeting and pricing for tenders.
Corporate Counsel/Law Firm Relationship Survey
In recent years, there has been considerable comment, both in Australia and overseas, on the negative aspects of hourly billing by the legal profession. Partly in response to this comment, the NSW government has recently undertaken a review of legal fees. An increasing trend in the US is the use of alternative billing strategies to provide transparency and certainty of fees.
In February 2006, Mahlab Recruitment and Harris Cost Lawyers surveyed the members of the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association (ACLA).
The purpose of the survey is to:
• Identify the criteria used by companies in selecting external law firms
• Identify the mechanisms employed by companies to control the legal spend
• Assess the use of alternative billing strategies
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