Alternative Fee Structures

Gray Reed offers Alternative Fee structures designed to align our interests with our clients in certain circumstances. This approach enables businesses and individuals to retain the Firm to represent them in matters where traditional hourly fee models may not be practical, while also ensuring that legal strategy is closely aligned with the client’s ultimate objectives.

Types of Matters We Handle

Alternative Fee opportunities often emerge across multiple practice areas. Our approach is to identify and activate these opportunities firmwide and support a range of matters where the nature and results of the matter can be clearly defined and measured. These may include:

Commercial disputes and business litigation,
Collections and recovery matters,
Investigations and claims involving financial loss or damages,
Tax refund claims; and
Transactional matters based on the circumstances.

Let’s Start the Conversation

If you are evaluating whether an alternative fee arrangement may be appropriate for your matter, our team can help assess the opportunity and, if appropriate, structure a model that aligns with your goals.

Why Clients Choose Alternative Fee Arrangements

Alternative Fee matters require a thoughtful balance of risk and opportunity. Our Firm is built on a framework designed to support consistent, high-quality execution.

Alignment with Business Outcomes

Structuring legal fees tied directly to results, aligning incentives and ensuring a shared focus on success.

Reduced Upfront Legal Costs

Clients can pursue significant matters without committing substantial capital to legal fees at the outset.

Efficient, Results-Driven Execution

Because our compensation depends on outcomes, our teams emphasize efficiency, strategic decision-making, and early resolution where appropriate.

Flexibility

We work with clients to develop fee arrangements that may combine contingency, fixed fees, or phased billing to balance risk, maximize value and fit their circumstances.

Alternative Fee Arrangement Options

Contingency fee and success bonus arrangements.

Under these structures, fees are tied—wholly or in part—to achieving a successful outcome, either through settlement or judgment.

Fixed fee arrangements.

Fixed fee arrangements provide clients with cost certainty by establishing a set price for a defined scope of legal services. These fees are not tied to time spent, allowing clients to budget with confidence while minimizing the unpredictability associated with hourly billing.

Hybrid fee arrangements.

Hybrid fee arrangements combine elements of different pricing models—such as fixed, hourly, and contingency components—to create a structure tailored to the unique needs of a matter.