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Two lawyers can quote the same contingency percentage and hand you checks that differ by thousands, because the number they multiply is not the same number.
Continue reading Quoted a Third of Your Case? What That Third Is Actually Measured Against
A composite case study in how professional writing got priced by the clock, why the deliverable fee took over, and how the math differs for one speech versus forty.
Continue reading Hired a Writer by the Hour and Got a Surprise Invoice? What the Flat Fee Fixed
Contingency fees sound standard until you read what the percentage is multiplied by. Gross or net, costs before or after, and how the rule changes by state.
Continue reading Is the Fee a Third of the Check or a Third of What's Left? The Line That Decides
An exclusion is a maintenance instruction written years before the claim. Five things to check in the form your insurer filed, and what each one asks you to do now.
Continue reading Five Checks on an Exclusion Clause That Change What You Repair, Not Just What Pays
Hourly pay rewards presence, salary rewards availability, and paying by the job rewards speed. Owners writing rules to correct behavior are usually correcting their own incentive.
Continue reading How Does the Way You Pay People Change the Way They Actually Work?
The wage is the smallest number in the calculation and the only one most owners run. The rest of it decides whether the hire works or quietly drains the year.
Continue reading Can a First Hire Pay for Themselves? Working Out What That Actually Requires