Our Counsel
Our Counsel is a program set up and tailored to your company’s individual legal needs. Many companies find themselves having a significant amount of consistent legal work in conducting their daily business. Companies traditionally handle such legal requirements in two distinct ways: outsourcing their work to expensive, big name law firms as they don’t know who else to turn to, or hiring in-house counsel. Either method is expensive.
In-house counsel can require a large salary and all the extra cost of benefits and other issues that arise as a company’s employee number grows. Using the big law firm is not only expensive, but many times extremely frustrating, as you are merely a small fish in their very big sea. Big law firms have clients who pay them hundreds of thousands, and in some cases millions of dollars in fees annually. Such clients get the call back the same day; yours might come a week later. And even worse, you find out a first or second year associate is handling your case, rather than an experienced partner. And when that partner does consult on the case, it is at $450.00 to $595.00 per hour.
Our Counsel program provides an alternative to the two traditional methods stated above. We will be your outside legal counsel while providing “in-house” level of service. We will be responsive and understand your issues, as the same attorney(s) will consistently work on your matters. We will be intimately familiar with your company, and more importantly with your organization and your people.
How Our Counsel Works:
Your company commits to a minimum retainer agreement covering at least six months. You tell us how many hours of time you are committed to using our firm per month. Those hours can be used anytime in each set ninety day period. All hours are non-refundable. However, the benefit to your company is that you receive a reduced hourly rate, and every hour billed above your minimum commitment is billed at that same reduced rate. Payments are due at the first of every month. Your retainer agreement can be up to two years in length, comprised of the ninety-day time segments. Below is Our Counsel rates and an example of how the program works.
60hrs/month minimum at $300/hr.
40hrs/month minimum at $320/hr.
30hrs/month minimum at $340/hr.
20hrs/month minimum at $360/hr.
10hrs/month minimum at $380/hr.
After spending almost a decade as General Counsel for a multi-unit corporation, Mr. Levitt knows what companies need in terms of legal guidance and action. He also knows the expense involved in such. If you are tired of paying outrageous billing rates and/or don’t necessarily want to have a full time attorney on staff, or your current in-house counsel is over worked and needs assistance, we strongly advise you to sign up for this program. Try Our Counsel program for six months, and see if you are happy with the cost, the service, and our responsiveness, and compare it to what your company had been spending. Currently, one of our clients is saving over 55% on this program as compared to having in-house counsel.