Description
Your fee agreements and engagement letters are designed to establish a “meeting of the minds” between the lawyer and client -- on both the scope of the work to be performed and the ground rules each party will follow. And since you had contract law as a 1L, you must know how to draft a simple client representation agreement, right? Wrong!
This one-hour program explores the top ten commonly made mistakes on fee agreements and engagement letters, and provides clear instructions on how to fix them. It will also review the clauses that should be in every fee agreement versus those that are used more selectively. If you want to improve your client-lawyer relationships and protect your firm from future fee disputes, this program is not to be missed.
Watch this program and learn:
What to do with old templates with clauses you don’t remember the purpose of
When editing a contract piecemeal can be dangerous, and how to clean it up
How to not just have an ethical, ironclad contract, but also attract clients and engage them in the legal process
What clauses should be in every agreement and how to write them well
How MRPC 1.4 (communication), 1.5 (fees), and 1.6 (confidentiality) apply to these agreements