Our Services

NALFA is an A.M. Best’s Recommended Expert Service Provider. We provide a full-range of attorney fee, legal billing, and litigation cost management services to law firms, insurers, Third Party Administrators (TPA’s), corporations, and government agencies. Our reasonable fee experts apply proven methodologies in their analysis of disputed legal fees. By offering access to the top fee experts in the field, NALFA clients can have a competitive edge in court, arbitration, and negotiation.

Our Services:

• Provide Expert Opinion on the Reasonableness of Attorney Fees
  Our experts and consultants provide expert opinions and reports on the reasonableness of attorney fees. Whether you’re an attorney seeking to recover fees in court or arbitration or a client negotiating fees with outside counsel, our experts’ opinions and reports can provide you with a competitive edge.
  
• Mediate High Stakes Legal Fee Disputes
  Attorney fee disputes often arise from a breakdown in the attorney-client relationship. Mediation is the most cost effective way to resolve fee disputes. In the National Fee Dispute Center, our highly qualified mediators understand the issues and complexities surrounding fee disputes and can work with both parties to ensure the attorney-client relationship remains intact
• Analyze Attorney Fees in Fee-Shifting Litigation
  Fee-shifting provisions are becoming more common in statutes and contracts. Our experts work with both prevailing and non-prevailing parties. Our experts provide legal fee analysis so prevailing parties can recover fees due them and non-prevailing parties can pay only reasonable fees.
• Evaluate Legal Fees in Large Complex Litigation
  Large complex cases may involve multi-district litigation covering multiple legal issues. In such large and complex litigation, some law firms may over-staff and over-bill, resulting in excessive fees. Our experts maintain market intelligence and metrics to address many of the excessive billing tendencies that occur in large complex litigation.
• Review & Analyze Legal Billing Statements
  Legal invoices are often confusing for many corporate clients. Our experts and consultants can provide legal cost savings to corporate clients by recognizing costly billing errors, mistakes, inefficiencies.
• Establish Litigation Management & Legal Cost Containment Programs
  Our experts and consultants can help insurers and TPA’s implement litigation management guidelines and legal cost containment programs to reduce legal costs and improve litigation efficiency. Our experts and consultants provide insurers and TPA’s with tested legal spend solutions. NALFA works with insurers and TPA’s on an on-going basis or as needs arise.
• Train & Educate on Proper Billing Practices
  Understanding attorney fees starts with understanding proper billing practices. Our experts and consultants train and educate law firms, litigation managers, and claims professionals on basic and proper legal billing practices.

Referral Process
Clients turn to us when they need a qualified expert to handle an attorney fee, legal billing, or litigation cost matter.  Our referral process is simple:

• We Gather Basic Information about the Case
• We Search our Network for Profile Matches
• We Provide the Client with a Profile Summary of up to three Members
• Clients Contact Members to Discuss their Case in Further Detail

Call us at (312) 532-2818 for your attorney fee, legal billing, or litigation cost matter.

Disclosure:  NALFA is a referral service to benefit the legal profession. We are an independent non-for-profit organization not affiliated with the defense or plaintiffs’ bar. We comply with the ABA Model Rules concerning legal advertising.

Our services are free to clients. Our experts and consultants are charged a processing fee when referred a case. All client information in is kept in confidence by NALFA and network members.