Facing legal challenges in your business or in your personal life is stressful and traumatic.
As a lawyer, you encounter clients and their families who are facing this reality every day. As their legal advisor, your empathy goes a long way to provide comfort, but your clients also need help with the financial burden for your services. Here are a few tips to help make your legal services affordable.
Build service packages
Legal services can be offered in packages to help clients choose services based on their budget and their individual needs. The service packages should be tiered in three levels, so that as the client’s budget increases, they receive additional services. The most basic package should cover the minimum legal services. The second level should have an add-on of your most popular services. The third tier should be your all-encompassing package.
Offer consumer finance
The cost of legal services is undoubtedly expensive. By creating tiered packages, you give your clients options based on their budget, but it should not exclude them from any service just because they can’t afford it right now. Since legal trouble is usually unexpected, many clients do not have cash to outlay when they need it most. For this reason, your company should offer legal service financing for each of the packages you offer. Legal service financing gives your client a way to be able to afford a respectable legal representation, and your company doesn’t have to lose out on revenue.
Help clients plan ahead
Planning ahead can help clients be able to afford legal services. Try marketing legal service financing by advertising with bail bonds companies. This will help clients to not feel blindsided by the cost of legal services. If families consider the cost while they are having the discussion about bonds, they can begin financial planning and avoid additional financial burdens of legal expenses.
Partner with a local non- profit
There are many non-profit organizations that help low income families afford legal services. Building a partnership with these organizations may help your clients utilize grant funding donations for the cost of legal services. Do your research and get the facts about how these programs work at the local community based organization that supports the families you service.
Help Family Understand Fundraisers
Sites like Gofundme.com can help families quickly and easily raise funds, but unfortunately many families have become victim to Gofundme.com fraud or theft. Encourage families to use sites like Gofundme.com with caution and choose a trusted organizer, to ensure that they do not fall victim to fundraising fraud.