Fixed-Fee Pricing Option

Why Fixed Fee Pricing Makes Sense
for Cross-Border Legal Services

An undeniable truism of legal service is that the law is rarely cheap. The only thing more expensive is not getting legal advice.

But Korea has a reputation as being an outrageously expensive place to seek legal advice. We can't say that Aurora Law Offices is cheap, even though we believe we offer better value. But we can try to reduce shock at the cost of services through our Fixed-Fee Pricing Option. Together with our unique 100% Service Guarantee, client risk is abolished.

Our idea to offer clients fixed fee pricing was hatched while working at other law firms. One of them, which had a significant foreign client base, also coincidentally had a problem collecting invoices from those foreign clients. We suppose the clients, upon receiving the bill at the conclusion of work, concluded that the law firm wasn't delivering appropriate value.

One problem is that time-based measurement of legal services doesn't translate well across borders. What takes an attorney two hours in New York may take 20 in Seoul. But how does the client know when the lawyers are diligently working on matters which just happen to take longer in Korea than elsewhere, as opposed to padding the bill? There's no way to know for sure.

So long as the firm bills clients by the hour, and measures its attorneys by how many hours they bill, clients will always have that gnawing question.

This uncertainty is magnified when dealing with a foreign law firm, simply because the cultural context for mutual trust just isn't there.

Instead of billing by the hour, Aurora Law Offices prefers to quote a client a fee in advance of undertaking work. And then once we've made that promise, we deliver at the agreed price. It removes the uncertainty and anxiety for the client, and significantly improves the experience of doing business in Korea.

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