We’re a Queensland-based “no win no fee” personal injury law firm whose mission is to help you save money on your personal injury legal fees.

By charging significantly lower fees than other law firms and using a different billing structure, we resolved 3 claims (hey, it’s a start!) in our first year, saving those clients over $60,000 in fees!

Glad you asked!

Unlike other personal injury law firms in Queensland, we help you save money in two main ways:

1. We do the work cheaper, and charge based on where your claim resolves. Our first tier of work caps our fees for running the first half of your personal injury claim at $2,000 (+GST) where other law firms would typically charge up to $10,000 or more. Then, depending on where we resolve your claim, our next tiers (informally negotiating a settlement to your matter, attending a compulsory settlement conference, or even running the matter to trial) continue our offer to run your claim significantly cheaper than traditional personal injury law firms.
2. There’s no ongoing bill. Because we charge in tiers, you don’t have to worry about endlessly racking up expensive legal fees if you need extra advice or support along the way.

Although the numbers change from claim to claim, total personal injury legal fees are usually around $25,000+ for a motor vehicle accident claim and $40,000+ for a common law workers’ compensation claim. For claims that take longer than 2 years, the fees easily can be $75,000+ or more.

Need more information? – The vast majority of personal injury legal fees are charged by “time billing”. This is where law firms use an hourly rate for certain tasks and then charge for time spent doing the work. Importantly, this work is charged in indivisible 6-minute blocks or “units”.

For example, a solicitor that takes 1 minute to read an email from you that progresses your claim would charge a single 6 minute unit for the work (even if it only takes a minute or two). A common perusal rate for a senior lawyer is approximately $600.00 per hour + GST ($60.00 per unit + GST), so your lawyer reading your email can cost around $66.00 per unit.

Lastly, most law firms in Queensland charge an “uplift fee”, which is 25% on their professional fees (due to the ‘risk’ of taking on the work on a ‘No Win, No Fee’ basis). With the uplift fee, reading your email could be charged at $82.50.

With most personal injury claims taking around 1 – 2 years to resolve, it’s not hard to see how lawyers can bill you tens of thousands of dollars for their work. 

No! Our professional fees are capped depending on the work that we perform for you, and charged on a “no win, no fee” basis.

This means that our fees are only charged if your claim is successful, and only ever deducted from compensation paid by the relevant insurer at the end of the claim.

This way you’re never out of pocket.

In our first year we resolved 3 claims and saved those clients over $60,000 in legal fees. So yes, we’re very confident that we’re worth it.

The only potential claims where using us could be like using any other firm is when the value of the claim is really small (e.g. $5,000). In these situations, due to the 50/50 rule (which caps what lawyers can charge at around 50% of your compensation) using Claimwise vs using another law firm would usually mean you’d still end up losing half your compensation.

For those situations we’ll always have an open and honest conversation with you about what your claim is worth, and then reduce our fees to help you get more in the hand.