The Cost of Waiting to Hire a Lawyer
Posted June 01, 2026 in Media
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The cost of waiting to involve legal counsel in the early phase of a dispute can be numerically very large. Let’s put it this way. The cost is higher than what you would spend in a 2 or three hour complimentary discovery call with your lawyer. A lot higher to the tune of, you know, five, six figures. So, you know, if you start getting into early phase negotiations in a default in a contract or some type of a breach in a contract, you may be waving important rights that you’re not even aware of. You may be
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breaching the contract yourself and how you’re handling the dispute. And ultimately, you may be agreeing to modify the contract in some way that you didn’t even realize you were agreeing to. And that creates a lot more litigation, a lot more contract law briefing and argumentation in court. And that translates into, you know, tens of thousands of dollars of legal fees. So the cost of waiting in my opinion is um far worse than the cost of engaging legal counsel early.
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