WHY HIRE Gary O’Brien and O’Brien Law Office?
How can you benefit from retaining the services of Gary O’Brien and O’Brien Law Office as opposed to a large firm?
Responsiveness and Quality: Large law firms are notorious for poor service, e.g., responsiveness and expeditious performance. Studies consistently reveal that attorneys at large law firms do not promptly return phone calls or answer client questions. Gary O’Brien has the training and experience of a large firm lawyer, but the personal client service of a small business. In other words, as a client of Gary O’Brien and O’Brien Law Office, you get the best of both worlds.
Lower Cost and Higher Efficiency: Large law firms provide their lawyers with great salaries, many benefits, and many perks. All that comes at a high price, which is passed along to clients in the form of high hourly rates, e.g., top firm lawyers are billing at hourly rates of $1,000 and above. Gary O’Brien and O’Brien Law Office does not have all the high overhead of a large firm, so the result is lower rates for the client. This should not be mistaken for lower quality legal work. Gary O’Brien was trained by large firm lawyers and has more than twenty-five years of experience. The result is that Gary O’Brien can hit the ground running with your matter and keep the legal fees to a minimum. As an example, at large firms, your matter may be handled by a junior associate, mid-level associate, senior associate, and a partner. The result is repetition in work and higher bills. At Office Law Office your matter will be handled personally by Gary O’Brien. No one else will bill time to your matter without your prior consent. This eliminates the redundancy of having both associates and partners work on your matter and ensures that your matter receives proper attention from day one.
Valued Client: Since O’Brien Law Office is a small firm each and every client is valued, respected, and treated as though they are the most important client the Law Office has. The truth is that to Gary O’Brien each client is the most valuable because referrals and repeat business are his lifeline.
Availability and Access to Gary O’Brien: As a small office dedicated to client service and excellent work product, Gary O’Brien is happy to have clients contact him day and night. Gary O’Brien’s cellphone number is printed on his business cards and he regularly takes business calls at night and on weekends. Gary O’Brien wants you to be able to reach him. How many big firm lawyers do that?
Simplified Billing: Large firms pressure associates and partners to bill, bill, bill! Lawyers are rewarded for billing above an annual minimum and sometimes penalized for not billing enough. In addition, large firms generally pass all costs along to the client, including long-distance phone calls, conference calling fees, photocopying fees, fax fees, etc. What is worse, many large firms inflate the actual costs of these services by marking them up. At O’Brien Law Office you will know from the outset of a matter how much you will be billed, how frequently you will be billed, and what additional costs or fees, if any, will be passed through to you. Importantly, Office Law Office does not mark up or inflate any costs passed through to clients. All clients receive the benefit of the price offered to O’Brien Law Office by its vendors and contacts.
No Associate Training: Since Gary O’Brien will be the only lawyer billing time to your matter, your matter will not be used to train new and inexperienced lawyers. It is common practice in large firms to train new lawyers on client matters and bill the client for the training lawyer’s time. At O’Brien Law Office, you will receive the benefit of Gary O’Brien’s experience, judgment, and insight from day one. No learning curve or inefficient time spent on a matter. This results in faster completion of a matter, more efficient handling, and a lower overall cost for the client.