Fee Limits

As the number of hearings on a given docket increases, the mindset of our custom turns from price per hearing to an attorney hourly rate. Therefore, Docketly has fee limits in every county in order to ensure a market rate for a group of appearances that could be handled by an attorney for an hourly rate.

Sometimes you will select a fee limited bundle all at once. That's pretty straightforward. However, we also build up these bundles over time. You may initially be offered just a few appearances which will be adding to your overall total. When you cross the threshold of the price limit, the total amount will stop increasing. This is often confusing as it seems like you should receive more money for more work. This is an important point to understand given how Docketly has chosen to operate. We would rather get you the appearances as soon as possible so you can better align your schedule. That way you know you are going to court, but not exactly for how many hearings. This is opposed to a model where we would hold all hearings and not release them until the day before when the bundles are fully built out. Attorneys would live in a very short term scheduling world and chaos would ensue. So we chose to release hearings as we get them and educate our attorneys on how we work.

An important point to understand is that Docketly's rates do not vary by:

Number of customers involved on a docket
The timing of when the hearing was added to the docket

To visualize, we will show 3 scenarios here. All of them end up with the same number of hearings at court for the same amount of money. However, the way we arrived at the final bundle varies in each situation. The final prices and total number of hearings is the same.

Ultimately, if an attorney isn't willing to accept the modifications that happen as the bundle is building. Docketly reserves the right to remove all hearings from that attorney, rebundle them, and send them to a different attorney in order to ensure our customers receive the prices they expect.