As a response to growing concerns from recruitment agencies, Lawspeed has developed a fixed price Agency Fee Recovery (AFR) service, designed to help agencies recover introduction and transfer fees.
Although many agencies use Lawspeed client terms of business, which are drafted to minimise the risk of avoided agency fees, the new AFR service is designed to support all terms.
The AFR service includes advice and initial contact with the client, through to full court action via recommended litigation solicitors in the unlikely situation that the client doesn’t pay.
Commenting on the launch of service Adrian Marlowe, founder and managing director of Lawspeed, says, “As specialist legal advisers to the recruitment sector for twenty years, we have heard just about every argument put forward by clients to avoid paying fees, and our comprehensive, cost effective recovery service usually results in prompt payment.
“We also support more complex transfer fee recovery cases where our in depth understanding of recruitment law and successful strategy is a distinct advantage. We have recovered more than half a million pounds on behalf of our clients since 2014.”
One of Lawspeed’s clients, David Leyshon, Chairman of the engineering recruiter CBS Butler, said “We were highly impressed by Lawspeed’s support in a complex fee dispute case they handled for us in 2015 where the outcome was a resounding 100% success”.
In conclusion Marlowe said “Many recruitment agencies have given up trying to recover fees owed by clients because they feel that there is little to prevent or to remedy the problem, without incurring significant costs. Lawspeed’s Agency Fee Recovery service provides the solution agencies have been seeking.”
For full details of Lawspeed’s AFR service please visit www.lawspeed.com/ClientServices/Recruiters/Agency-Fee-Recovery.aspx. Alternatively you can call 01273 236 236 or email info@lawspeed.com for confidential advice and assistance.
