The Other Squeeze
Not satisfied with kicking all the document review jobs off to new lands filled with willing , hungry and lower paid attorney populations, the industry is also courting client companies with new ways to reduce their “discovery spend” at it’s most “bloated” component, the document review.
How, you ask? With Per Document pricing.
Per Document pricing fits in well with the client company’s need for predictability, and it enforces a form of accountability onto what has hitherto been the secretive mess that is “Law Firm Billing.” The idea fits in with the concepts I learned in my mis-spent undergraduate years cobbling together a managerial studies degree.
It doesn’t fit as well with my concepts of how to best represent a client as an attorney.
How do you feel about joining a project that has been bid out at 11 cents per document? Do you think you’d have the right incentives to protect the client’s interests and produce only appropriate documents?
Wondering why agencies are trying to find attorneys who will work for less than $30 per hour?