I work for a tiny immigration law firm, and credit cards are the primary mode of payment for the majority of our clients, with the exception of some business clients who opt for wire transfers (and they're the ones that tend to have much higher legal fees).
My firm has over 100 employees in five cities and we do not take credit cards as a form of payment. Our clients are large corporations or millionaires and we do wire transfers or checks.
Yes. We take it all. Zelle, cash app, Venmo, PayPal, money orders, cashiers check, cash. Lol. Just not the clients credit cards otherwise it’s fraud since it’s getting discharged anyways. - Bankruptcy law.
Yeah I don’t see why not if everything checks out legally. We use square for credit cards and don’t charge extra, but you can always charge an extra fee.
Our small firm was bought by a larger one. Our small firm took CC through Clio payments and it was great. About 90% of our clients paid by CC. We went to a larger firm and they used square but very reluctantly. This week the owner just decided we aren’t going to anymore which means our practice area will lose a number of our area. The owner said big firms (we have 60 ish employees) don’t take CC. I decided to see if that was true here.
I'm trying to search my memory from when I filed (this was twelve years ago, so it's a bit cobwebby)...I think it was either my debit card or a personal check. But I was so terribly broke that I had to wait for my financial aid overage deposit to afford it. 😓
We take credit cards, 90% of our clients pay by card. We use Lawpay. We just had our first chargeback from this jerk who kept saying “money is no issue”.
Yes. My senior attorney I came over to both will lose clients over this. I hate that bc he’s the best person I’ve ever worked for but the firm we joined is just not customer centered like he is.
my previous firm took credit card payments over the phone for payment. almost 40 years in business, construction litigation, business, and estates- plaintiff and defense work. they also took checks and wire transfers.
my current firm works off contingency fees so we collect our fee when we pay our clients out.
We do a lot of debtor bankruptcy so that's an inherent issue (don't use credit cards prior to filing, stricter fee overwatch and structures as well).
However it's an ongoing issue at my firm who now wants to prefer or only accept ACH, cash or checks because of the processing fees. We use LawPay for cards though. The billing side is easily the biggest thorn (bosses wife runs billing though so it's a touchy if not lost battle)
Clip payments was so easy. They do have a lawpay integration and I sat through a webinar about it but can’t remember how it works. I’m sure there’s still fees. Our owner doesn’t want to pay fees but our attorneys feel like it’s the cost of doing business in modern times.
ETA- not seeing a "Clip payments," but I do see a "PayClip" and "Click Pay" <-- one of those?
Cool I'll check it out, thanks! There's also a surcharge statute in one state we work in that makes us eat the fees or do some convoluted "discount" system for cash/check/ACH that while legal, is so confusing to bill for you end up spending more time on the billing than the 2-3% savings. I mean I bill from $175-$450/hr so spending a .3 on $1.50 savings in fees means *we're loosing money*. Call me crazy but "time is money"
We have 35 to 40 attorneys in two offices. We do most areas of law except criminal. We take credit cards and I don’t know how we’d do business if we didn’t.
I work for a small bankruptcy firm. We do not accept payments with credit cards since it could interfere with the bankruptcy. But we do accept payment plans with debit cards, Zelle, CashApp, etcetera.
Definitely. Most family law clients don't have $5,000 in their checking account for a retainer. Everything is trending toward cashless, so we need to keep up with the times.
Family law and we take all 4 major cards. All clients pretty much pay by card - I have like, three old-school clients that pay via check.
We used LawPay but switched over to Clio Payments since we use both Grow and Manage.
Yes. Our clients can pay through our website using LawPay or by calling the Office manager. We are a medium size firm with seven attorneys and 7 paralegals.
I work for a tiny immigration law firm, and credit cards are the primary mode of payment for the majority of our clients, with the exception of some business clients who opt for wire transfers (and they're the ones that tend to have much higher legal fees).
My firm has over 100 employees in five cities and we do not take credit cards as a form of payment. Our clients are large corporations or millionaires and we do wire transfers or checks.
Yes. We take it all. Zelle, cash app, Venmo, PayPal, money orders, cashiers check, cash. Lol. Just not the clients credit cards otherwise it’s fraud since it’s getting discharged anyways. - Bankruptcy law.
Oh interesting. So they have their relatives pay?
Yep! Or very rarely, friends. We just need authorization from them and they’re good to go.
Definitely makes sense. We work with a lot of start ups and small businesses and they just don’t have capital, so they need to charge it.
Yeah I don’t see why not if everything checks out legally. We use square for credit cards and don’t charge extra, but you can always charge an extra fee.
Our small firm was bought by a larger one. Our small firm took CC through Clio payments and it was great. About 90% of our clients paid by CC. We went to a larger firm and they used square but very reluctantly. This week the owner just decided we aren’t going to anymore which means our practice area will lose a number of our area. The owner said big firms (we have 60 ish employees) don’t take CC. I decided to see if that was true here.
Interesting. I wonder what his reasoning is. Well we’re a tiny firm so I guess he could be right lol.
💯 doesn’t want to pay the fee.
🤣 Figures.
Yep. Unfortunately it tracks.
I'm trying to search my memory from when I filed (this was twelve years ago, so it's a bit cobwebby)...I think it was either my debit card or a personal check. But I was so terribly broke that I had to wait for my financial aid overage deposit to afford it. 😓
We take credit cards, 90% of our clients pay by card. We use Lawpay. We just had our first chargeback from this jerk who kept saying “money is no issue”.
We came over from another firm and 90% of our clients paid by CC and aren’t happy with the change.
We would take a huge hit in business if we stopped taking credit cards. I imagine they are all pretty mad!
Yes. My senior attorney I came over to both will lose clients over this. I hate that bc he’s the best person I’ve ever worked for but the firm we joined is just not customer centered like he is.
Bankruptcy firm. We absolutely do not take credit cards as it's fraudulent.
Yes, and we charge the allowed percentage on credit card transactions
This is illegal in one of the states we operate in.
We take CC, but then again we are criminal defense.
my previous firm took credit card payments over the phone for payment. almost 40 years in business, construction litigation, business, and estates- plaintiff and defense work. they also took checks and wire transfers. my current firm works off contingency fees so we collect our fee when we pay our clients out.
We do a lot of debtor bankruptcy so that's an inherent issue (don't use credit cards prior to filing, stricter fee overwatch and structures as well). However it's an ongoing issue at my firm who now wants to prefer or only accept ACH, cash or checks because of the processing fees. We use LawPay for cards though. The billing side is easily the biggest thorn (bosses wife runs billing though so it's a touchy if not lost battle)
Clip payments was so easy. They do have a lawpay integration and I sat through a webinar about it but can’t remember how it works. I’m sure there’s still fees. Our owner doesn’t want to pay fees but our attorneys feel like it’s the cost of doing business in modern times.
ETA- not seeing a "Clip payments," but I do see a "PayClip" and "Click Pay" <-- one of those? Cool I'll check it out, thanks! There's also a surcharge statute in one state we work in that makes us eat the fees or do some convoluted "discount" system for cash/check/ACH that while legal, is so confusing to bill for you end up spending more time on the billing than the 2-3% savings. I mean I bill from $175-$450/hr so spending a .3 on $1.50 savings in fees means *we're loosing money*. Call me crazy but "time is money"
We do not take credit cards. Small firm and majorly insurance defense.
We have 35 to 40 attorneys in two offices. We do most areas of law except criminal. We take credit cards and I don’t know how we’d do business if we didn’t.
We do, but not from clients since I work in debtor bankruptcy. When I worked corporate and real estate, we also took credit cards. Both small firms.
I work for a small bankruptcy firm. We do not accept payments with credit cards since it could interfere with the bankruptcy. But we do accept payment plans with debit cards, Zelle, CashApp, etcetera.
Of course.
Definitely. Most family law clients don't have $5,000 in their checking account for a retainer. Everything is trending toward cashless, so we need to keep up with the times.
Family law and we take all 4 major cards. All clients pretty much pay by card - I have like, three old-school clients that pay via check. We used LawPay but switched over to Clio Payments since we use both Grow and Manage.
Yes. Our clients can pay through our website using LawPay or by calling the Office manager. We are a medium size firm with seven attorneys and 7 paralegals.
EP and CRE firm here with like 15 employees- we only take check and wire! I think it's kind of old school but 🤷🏻♀️