Posts by Alexa Pilger
Embracing the Entrepreneurial Spirit: Challenging the Status Quo

Have you ever heard the saying that an entrepreneur is someone who jumps out of a plane and figures out how to work the parachute on the way down? Well, making the move away from hourly billing felt a lot like that for me. There was no instruction manual or established system like AltFee to tell us how to do it. We just had to figure it out, navigate the challenges, and learn as we went.

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Meet DL&Co.'s New Articling Student, Ryan Neale

DL&Co. is excited to welcome Ryan Neale back as an articling student.  Ryan has worked at DL&Co. as a summer student for the last two years and now that he has completed his law degree at University of Ottawa, he is ready to begin working as an articling student. 

Congratulations, Ryan, on this next chapter in your legal career!

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Alexa Pilger
Key learnings from the last three years: Impact of Pricing on Customer Experience

When you are not pricing by the hour, wrapping your head around how to come up with up-front, fixed fee pricing for commercial litigation, M&A transactions or other complex unpredictable matters can feel challenging and uncertain. How can I possibly price these types of projects and not be wide open to “working for free”?

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Key learnings from the last three years: Utilizing Technology

When you are not pricing by the hour, wrapping your head around how to come up with up-front, fixed fee pricing for commercial litigation, M&A transactions or other complex unpredictable matters can feel challenging and uncertain. How can I possibly price these types of projects and not be wide open to “working for free”?

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Key learnings from the last three years: Tracking firm success

When you are not pricing by the hour, wrapping your head around how to come up with up-front, fixed fee pricing for commercial litigation, M&A transactions or other complex unpredictable matters can feel challenging and uncertain. How can I possibly price these types of projects and not be wide open to “working for free”?

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Key learnings from the last three years: Strategies for pricing complex projects

When you are not pricing by the hour, wrapping your head around how to come up with up-front, fixed fee pricing for commercial litigation, M&A transactions or other complex unpredictable matters can feel challenging and uncertain. How can I possibly price these types of projects and not be wide open to “working for free”?

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