Is your microbusiness operating in the dark when handling legal obstacles and business opportunities?
The challenge for microbusiness
Choosing a law firm is a serious decision for a microbusiness, an enterprise operating with one to nine people. Business success may lead you to seek a trusted legal adviser to serve you in a long-term capacity. Or, a crisis may require you to find a lawyer to handle a short-term problem.
Because of the scale of a microbusiness, "legal expenses" are not a regular line item in your budget. An unpredictable legal expense increases the already uncertain cost of a business issue.
And, it is hard for microbusiness owners to trust any aspect of their enterprise to another person. By virtue of their inherent nature, entrepreneurs are Starters, Closers, and DIYers. When they actually choose to engage a lawyer, they want to work with someone they can trust.
Unfortunately, poor communication over the value, scope and expectations of a legal engagement can undermine what should be a strategic partnership. The billable-hour fee structure used in a traditional attorney-client relationship may create distance between attorney and client at the worst time. No one, neither business owner nor lawyer, benefits when any aspect of their professional relationship is kept in the dark.
The challenge for microbusiness
Choosing a law firm is a serious decision for a microbusiness, an enterprise operating with one to nine people. Business success may lead you to seek a trusted legal adviser to serve you in a long-term capacity. Or, a crisis may require you to find a lawyer to handle a short-term problem.
Because of the scale of a microbusiness, "legal expenses" are not a regular line item in your budget. An unpredictable legal expense increases the already uncertain cost of a business issue.
And, it is hard for microbusiness owners to trust any aspect of their enterprise to another person. By virtue of their inherent nature, entrepreneurs are Starters, Closers, and DIYers. When they actually choose to engage a lawyer, they want to work with someone they can trust.
Unfortunately, poor communication over the value, scope and expectations of a legal engagement can undermine what should be a strategic partnership. The billable-hour fee structure used in a traditional attorney-client relationship may create distance between attorney and client at the worst time. No one, neither business owner nor lawyer, benefits when any aspect of their professional relationship is kept in the dark.
LITE up the dark to protect your profit, limit your risk and solve your legal problems so that you can achieve your definition of success.
My law firm's solution
LITE stands for Legal Innovation Through Entrepreneurship. LITE describes the lean business design my law firm uses to practice microbusiness law and microlitigation in Austin, Texas and its surrounding communities.
My business advisory practice is limited to for-profit enterprises employing from one to nine people, i.e., microbusiness.
My civil litigation practice focuses exclusively on lawsuits with an amount in controversy of less than $100,000, i.e., microlitigation.
LITE is the result of my quest to create a practice niche that serves my ideal clients. LITE is my way of keeping what I like about the practice of law in the 21st century and getting rid of the rest.
The mission of my practice is to serve my clients by providing them legal services they believe are valuable, reliable and timely.
And, my practice is nontraditional because rather than charge clients by the billable hour after a legal engagement begins, my practice leverages the principles of the emerging discipline of Legal Project Management to offer clients fixed prices for all services before work is commenced.
Learn more about my practice by exploring this website, especially the law firm blog entitled LITE Reading.
My law firm's solution
LITE stands for Legal Innovation Through Entrepreneurship. LITE describes the lean business design my law firm uses to practice microbusiness law and microlitigation in Austin, Texas and its surrounding communities.
My business advisory practice is limited to for-profit enterprises employing from one to nine people, i.e., microbusiness.
My civil litigation practice focuses exclusively on lawsuits with an amount in controversy of less than $100,000, i.e., microlitigation.
LITE is the result of my quest to create a practice niche that serves my ideal clients. LITE is my way of keeping what I like about the practice of law in the 21st century and getting rid of the rest.
The mission of my practice is to serve my clients by providing them legal services they believe are valuable, reliable and timely.
And, my practice is nontraditional because rather than charge clients by the billable hour after a legal engagement begins, my practice leverages the principles of the emerging discipline of Legal Project Management to offer clients fixed prices for all services before work is commenced.
Learn more about my practice by exploring this website, especially the law firm blog entitled LITE Reading.
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Please consult your lawyer as appropriate.
Ramsey Abarca is the lawyer responsible for this website.
His law firm's main office is located in Austin, Texas.
