A $156,000 invoice
after ten weeks.
The bill that started Trim the Fee — and the reason most people never push back.
Why this exists.
Trim the Fee was built by an attorney who got sued in a matter he shouldn’t have been part of.
After two and a half months of work — work that, as a lawyer, he understood intimately — he received an invoice for $156,000. His own counsel had padded. Opposing counsel had padded. The bill landed like a second lawsuit on top of the first.
He knew the billing norms. He knew what reasonable looked like. He knew which entries didn’t survive honest scrutiny. And he still had to stare at a six-figure invoice and figure out how to push back without blowing up the engagement.
Most people don’t have a law degree. Most people can’t tell a legitimate entry from a padded one, don’t know that block-billing violates most bar guidance, don’t know that admin work billed at $400 an hour is an accepted reason to request a reduction. Most people just pay.
Trim the Fee exists so they don’t have to.
You should always have an attorney check your attorney.*
*In this case, attorney built AI software. No attorney-client relationship.
Built by a litigator,
for everyone else.
Nicolas Castillo, Esq.
Founder
- Florida Bar
- Business litigation
- General practice
Nicolas Castillo, Esq. built Trim the Fee with a litigator’s eye — the same eye that, years earlier, turned a $156,000 invoice into a serious negotiation and a reasonable outcome. Every product decision still passes through that lens.
A practicing attorney with a background in business litigation and general practice. Trim the Fee is the product he wished existed the first time he opened a padded invoice — and the product he hopes you never have to use a second time.
Stop wondering
if you got
billed fairly.
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