When you work with McDermott, you don’t just get the experience of an individual. You get a purpose-built, tightly woven network of legal thought leaders who marry their passion for business with a deep, focused understanding of the law.

Most importantly, we’re committed to helping you make real progress against your goals—to turning those big ideas into actionable plans—and to making it as easy and enjoyable as possible.

Our innovative solutions and technologies include:

We understand the challenges our clients face when anticipating and budgeting for legal costs. To address these challenges, we offer project-specific fee arrangements tailored to fit your budget, all designed to reduce legal fee risk and encourage efficiency.

Certainty, Predictability, Risk Reduction – One price

Based on our experience analyzing component work streams from many thousands of matters, we provide our clients with accurate fee structures that enable them to anticipate legal fees with certainty.

We offer a wide range of alternative fee arrangements to align with your strategic objectives for the matter at hand. These include:

• Fixed fees
• Phase based fees
• Fee caps
• Collars
• Contingencies
• Blended rates
• Risk share arrangements

We have also invested in developing its own technology tools to help its lawyers price matters appropriately and manage work efficiently. Our proprietary technology enables attorneys to find similar matters over the multitudes of matters handled historically to ensure you get the right price for the right work; the tool also generates email alerts to keep teams informed of where their matter stands against any agreed budget. This greatly enhances our ability to manage projects with optimum efficiency in mind.

Our firm-wide pricing function is headed by one of the legal sector’s leading pricing professionals, Steven Manton.

With more than a decade of law firm pricing experience, Steven previously established the pricing function at one of the world’s leading law firms.