Unbundling Legal Services: The Modern Law Firm
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About
This Course
Attend this program to learn how attorneys can leverage unbundled legal services to increase the value they offer to their clients while at the same time increasing their bottom line and well-being. This program will explore unbundled legal services and how these service offerings can provide accessibility, affordability, and choice to legal consumers. If thoughtfully designed on the backend, they can also lead to additional profits and more flexibility in scheduling.
In this course, attorneys will learn the nuts and bolts of unbundling legal services that can be added to a service menu to see immediate benefits and results.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what unbundled legal services are and how they can increase the value attorneys provide to clients and their bottom lines
- Learn a framework that attorneys can use to determine what unbundled services to offer
- Walk away with the skills on how to deal with clients and draft comprehensive engagement agreements
- Discover targeted resources that can support attorneys on their unbundling journey
About the Presenters
Jessica Bednarz, Esq.
Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS)
Practice Area: Law Practice Management (+ 1 other areas)
Jessica Bednarz is the Director of Legal Services and the Profession at IAALS. In this role, Jessica is responsible for leading the vision and strategy of IAALS’ work around innovation, regulation, reform, and evolution in the areas of the delivery of legal services and the legal profession more generally. Jessica is also the Co-Founder of A Different Practice.Jessica joined IAALS in 2023 after working at The Chicago Bar Foundation (CBF). During her eight years with the CBF, Jessica worked on a wide range of access to justice issues. Her most recent work includes overseeing the CBF’s legal incubator program called ...
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Roya Samarghandi, Esq.
Carmel Law
Practice Area: Family Law
Roya Samarghandi owns and manages Carmel Law, LLC in Chicago, Illinois, through which she aims to serve low and moderate-income clients through the implementation of transparent and predictable pricing and the leveraging of technology. Her practice is focused on civil rights, criminal defense, and family law, including divorce, child custody, adoptions and Department of Children and Family Services administrative appeals. She is licensed to practice In Illinois.
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Andrea McGinn, Esq.
The Law Shop
Practice Area: Family Law
Andrea McGinn is co-founder of The Law Shop by Skogerson McGinn LLC, an unbundled legal services law firm out of Van Meter, Iowa. She practices mainly in family and child welfare law. She is a mother of two boys, Chair of the Iowa State Bar Association Family and Juvenile Law Section, Secretary of Iowa Collaborative Divorce, member of the Iowa Association for Justice, member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, appointed team member of the Iowa Domestic Violence Death Review Team, Iowa Child Protection Council appointed member and participates in other professional and community-based organizations. Andrea and Law Shop co-founder, ...
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