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Some basics
Some basics
SET-UP: My set-up is refreshingly different:-
no vested interests
no duty-interest conflicts
no claims on my independence
no annoying colleagues
no oppressive workplace
no obnoxious (or any other) secretary
no silly walk
no stupid accent
no phoney-baloney bullshit
no jargon
no gibberish
no formality.
My approach was the same when I was a practising lawyer.
A breath of fresh air (so I've been told).
TECHNIQUE: I can work in the foreground or background; overtly or invisibly; and separately from and or in conjunction with other relevant people in your life including lawyers, accountants, financial advisers etc.
I like to anticipate, model, simulate, preempt, prevent and forestall problems before they develop as much as to solve and rectify existing ones.
I'm calm, sensible, rational, systematic, diligent, conscientious, relentless, seasoned… and rigorous! We can go over something as often as you like. (I once spent four hours with a friend trying to decipher one sentence in an expensive letter from his ill-chosen self-important rapacious illiterate baboon of a fancy City solicitor. We didn't get anywhere, but we had fun and a useful conversation.)
The MrRigorous.pro two-step
The MrRigorous.pro two-step
Interacting with MrRigorous.pro comprises not one step but two equally important steps.
Step One: Let's start by discussing the detail of your situation in a clear, calm, sensible, steady, relaxed Zoom or WhatsApp video conversation. This first step is a crucially important counselling and advisory process in its own right:-
this initial exploratory explanatory interaction is all free
it might take a while, and that's OK. I don't set any time limit on it. I'm very patient, and I need to get to grips with the basic data
forget everything you know about tense rushed breathless conversations with brusque, patronising, pretentious, presumptuous, pompous, phony, bluffing, blustering, bullying, sour-faced, growling, rigid, intimidating, hyperventilating, moronic, viscerally dishonest, finger-tapping lawyers (if you think I'm overstating it, I'd be interested to hear how your own professional-level experience of hundreds of lawyers has been less catastrophic than mine)
we'll thoroughly discuss, dissect, analyse and evaluate the situation
when I'm sure that I've fully understood all points, I'll focus on coming up with a solution there and then, or at least a plan for one
we might find that I can sort out the whole matter for you quickly and easily either in that first interaction or in a few subsequent no-fuss emails
if I've been able to resolve your entire presented problem in that way, the MrRigorous.pro preference is to not charge you anything at all — because I'm happy to help folk who need helping and happy to demonstrate how straightforward the problem-solving process can be
a number of highly satisfied MrRigorous.pro patrons have been taken aback at how quickly and effortlessly I've sliced through their entire dilemma and embarrassed that I don't intend to charge for it
it is said that people value and are more comfortable with a professional solution for which they have paid over one bestowed on them for nothing. If in Step One I've cracked your problem, delivered a solution to your satisfaction and you would be more comfortable paying for that service, I'll suggest a minimal fee
if your problem is not capable of a quick and easy Step One solution and you want me to work on it for you as a project, we'll talk in detail about whether it's within my capabilities, what the job might and should involve, how long it might take, what we need to accomplish, and how much we think it should cost.
Step Two: If we decide that there's a job to do and I'm the right man for it, and we agree terms, I'll get on with it.
Step Two: fees and expenses
Step Two: fees and expenses
FEES: If we're going into Step Two, the only fee(s) I will ever propose and charge — always formally agreed in writing in advance between us — are per each clearly defined, instructed, particularised, itemised, timed, costed, valued, modeled, agreed assignment. We each know in advance precisely what I'm expected to do on every issue — how, why and when — and for exactly how much. You get a fixed fee, with no revisions, for the entire stipulated assignment. There is financial certainty on both sides.
I don't charge contingency fees, conditional fees, success fees or fees related to the cost, price, value or any other feature of any object, transaction, asset, liability, business or situation. I never charge by the hour.
Hiring me will be cheaper and more cost-effective than hiring a conventional practising lawyer.
Where appropriate, we can proceed in stages. I like handling assignments organised in clearly defined demarcated stages. It makes it easier to monitor, evaluate and value progress and keep full control over time, money and results.
I'm available to work on a retainer:-
keeping an eye on general or particular things over a period. For example, I offer six-monthly and annual advice+assistance retainer plans
in situations likely to take some time to resolve.
EXPENSES: I think the only expenses that might arise would be, broadly, those of transport to go and return from somewhere, and accommodation to stay somewhere, on your work: a highly exceptional unavoidable in-person excursion for a very good reason. I incur nothing and go nowhere unless explicitly costed, valued and agreed in detail in advance.
Step Two: the process
Step Two: the process
If you hire me, we draw up a detailed timed valued checklist of what needs to be done and I do it. I work expeditiously, efficiently and productively. I never take on excessive workloads.
If appropriate, we work in pre-planned, costed, valued, pellucidated stages.
I'm available by phone, email and Zoom at least five days a week.
I will keep you informed in real time of everything I do for you.
We each keep in real time our own detailed up-to-date log, ledger, diary and archive of exactly what's going on, and maintain real-time models, evaluations and valuations of every relevant issue.
Everything I do for you is at all times:-
transparent, unambiguous, frank and pellucid. I don't speak 21st-century gibberish
comprehensively confidential indefinitely.
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