When You Want Cost-efficient International Arbitration Services, Aceris Law Tops the List
Aceris Law LLC is your go-to destination while looking for legal arbitration services that are easy on your pockets and is quite affordable when compared to its counterparts. The goal is to do everything that is in our clients’ interest, which includes not overcharging them. Although our lawyers have not lost a case since 2006, despite serving opposite to the largest law firms of the world, we tend to charge a fraction of the legal fees of our opponents.
In a recent, two-year-long ICC international commercial arbitration where opposing counsel’s legal fees were over USD 2 million, our legal fees were EUR 257,000. Moreover, in a four-year-long ICSID investment treaty arbitration where opposing counsel’s legal fees was over USD 6 million, our legal fees in tandem with other members of the IAA Network, co-founded by Aceris partner William Kirtley, were less than 1/7th of this amount.
At Aceris Law LLC, we do this because our structure is young and dynamic, we rely heavily on the latest technology, and we adamantly refuse to overcharge clients. We have access to more arbitration legal resources and better technology than the vast majority of large international firms, our typical opponents. In order to ensure that there is no overcharging of clients, our lawyers are not assessed on the basis of the numbers of billable hours they work, as is the case at most law firms, and we refuse to “leverage” the work of junior associates by having them perform tasks of no relevance. Since all lawyers share in the profits of Aceris, including associates, all lawyers have incentives to keep costs reasonable.
We can bill based on highly competitive hourly rates, with caps on overall fees or caps on various stages of a given dispute, on a flat monthly basis that is scheduled in advance, or on an almost entirely contingent fee basis for cases that we consider to be especially strong. For respondents in international arbitrations, Aceris offers a holdback arrangement, in order to reduce our clients’ upfront legal fees. In this scenario, a portion of our legal fees is not paid while a case is pending. If the matter is concluded successfully, the holdback amount plus a reasonable premium based on the amount we have saved our clients is recovered.
