At EI Legal we don’t like hourly billing and will always try to deliver fixed price legal services whenever its practical. We always thought we were different but it appears more people are catching on.

Yesterday Justice Clyde Croft, a senior judge from Victoria, called for the practice of hourly billing to be reviewed to help speed up litigation and make courts more efficient.

There are also links between hourly billing and high rates of depression in the legal profession. Anyone professional who has had to use time sheet billing and meet daily billing targets will appreciate why.

We have learned over the years that most clients do not like hourly billing. Our clients prefer to know up front what they are getting and how much it will cost.  After all, most of our clients wouldn’t get away with charging clients in 6 minute increments for their products and services.

Our clients almost invariably do not want to be having employment law problems and would prefer to spend their money on something more productive.  The least we can do is help make this process more understandable and certain from a cost perspective.

We already provide fixed fee proposals for our enterprise agreement services, compliance assessments and for drafting employment related documents.  Our telephone and online HR support package,  OneStopHR, is also available for an annual subscription which can be paid in easy monthly instalments.

We will shortly be adding other fixed price legal services like unfair dismissal representation.  Let us know if there are any other HR or employment law services you would like to see included for a fixed fee.