Unbundled Legal Services

Family issues are among the most sensitive and pressing matters that enter the civil justice system, and the outcomes can affect families for years to come. Providing a crucial step forward in matching individuals with the specific family law services they need, this book’s focus on family law practitioners is particularly appropriate given the unique promise that unbundling holds for family law litigants. Self-representation rates are among the highest in family cases, although these are the cases that may benefit most from attorney involvement. The authors explain why unbundling works for both clients and lawyers and how to implement it. Chapters address issues such as: taking the first steps towards offering unbundled services; client intake; the minefields of offering limited scope services; setting up, managing, and marketing unbundling; models of success, and more.