• focused practice
• budgeting and billing
• leverage technology
• value added

budgeting and billing

At other firms, the business of law creates incentives to be inefficient.  Inherent in hourly billing is a disincentive to reduce the number of hours billed.  Employing large staffs and requiring high annual hourly targets allows our institutional competitors to focus on increasing billing as the primary means of solve a client’s problem – a strategy known colloquially as “throwing more lawyer” at a problem.  Wars of attrition remain common, resulting in hollow victories.

Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow LLP competes effectively through greater efficiencies.  We use technology to enable our attorneys to do the work of many.  Our attorneys never lose sight of the basic fact that someone is paying for the work they do and the costs they incur.

Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow LLP understands that their clients have finite litigation budgets.  We work within our clients’ budgets and provide our clients with the information they need to understand all elements of a dispute, including its transaction costs.

If a client wants alternative billing arrangement, we are creative and willing.  On a limited basis, we will consider matters on a mixed contingent or pure contingent basis.