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The Economics of Hiring a Lawyer

Written by Dan Gallatin | Aug 28, 2019 5:00:00 AM

I'm going to keep this week's post pretty short. Lawyers are perceived, often correctly to be expensive.

What I preach to my clients is that it is much cheaper to confer with me as things go along compared to hire me to solve problems.

Consider this:

I can prepare a transaction agreement for the sale of real estate or a company for under $2,500.

or

If you ask to retain me to litigate a transaction gone awry, you'll need to plan on at least a $5,000.00 final expense, and that's if I get to worked out really, really efficiently. If it goes to litigation, your expense will for sure be $10,000.00 and as high as $60,000.

The point: Call me early to make things go right instead of calling me for expensive fixes!

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