What is “unbundled” legal service?
Unbundled legal service is the term used to describe the arrangement where:
- You have a legal issue that needs a number of steps to be taken to sort it out
- You agree with your lawyer that the lawyer will help you with some of those steps, but
- You remain responsible for the overall issue.
An example of this is:
- You have a case in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT). You engage a lawyer to give you some advice to get you started and help you to fill in the legal forms that QCAT requires, but you do the rest of the case yourself. You might contact the lawyer again before the hearing, for some help to organise how you are going to present the case, but you go along to QCAT yourself.
People use unbundled services because:
- They can’t afford full service, or
- The amount in dispute doesn’t warrant the cost of full service, or
- They want to take responsibility for their issue, just getting the help they need when they need it.
Unbundled services are also called “discrete task legal services”.
At Affording Justice, we call these services Legal Task Help. We assess your case to make sure it is suitable for this type of help, and then we enter into an agreement with you about what tasks you will do, and what we will do.
We give you a fixed price for the work that we will do, so that you know in advance what the cost will be. We also give you a timeframe for the work.
If you are interested in Legal Task Help, you can fill in our contact form by clicking the contact us button on the right, or just give us a call to see if we can help.
