Dunning and collection tie up billable hours you cannot invoice. You hand over open claims, your own or those of your clients, to a licensed debt collection agency confirmed by the Austrian Supreme Court (OGH). 100% of the claim for you or your clients.
The starting point
Lawyers and law firms can hand over open claims, their own outstanding fees as well as their clients' claims, to incaseof.law, a licensed debt collection agency confirmed by the Austrian Supreme Court (OGH). The law firm keeps the client relationship while the collection is outsourced and 100% of the claim goes to the creditor.
Dunning runs, deadline monitoring, debtor communication and instalment negotiation tie up lawyer and back-office hours that are rarely billable at cost. Every hour of collection is an hour less of mandate work. This applies to open client claims just as much as to the law firm's own fee collection.
Start debt collection nowIn brief
Law firms cooperate with a debt collection agency by outsourcing the operational collection while keeping the legal responsibility and the client relationship in the firm. The law firm hands over a claim, its own or a client's, to the licensed agency. The agency takes over debtor communication, dunning runs and, if needed, the step into court proceedings. The payout goes to 100% of the claim to the law firm or directly to the client.
incaseof.law is a licensed debt collection agency authorised in Austria and Germany, its approach is confirmed by the Austrian Supreme Court (OGH), and it connects to court proceedings via electronic legal communication. Three forms of cooperation are common: handing over on behalf of the law firm, recommending direct submission to clients, and collecting the firm's own claims such as outstanding fee invoices.
The handover
Outstanding fee invoices and unpaid invoices of the law firm itself. You hand over, we collect, the payout goes to your law firm.
Claims your clients hold against their debtors. You hand over on their behalf and keep the client relationship, we take over the collection in the background.
Submit your own or a client claim, digitally and in a few minutes.
Debtor communication, dunning runs and, if needed, electronic legal communication via the connector.
100% of the claim to you or your clients. Status visible at any time.
The cooperation model
The collaboration is designed as an ongoing cooperation, not a one-off handover. You decide per claim what is handed over, and you see every step. The volume collection runs with us, the legal responsibility and the client relationship stay in the law firm.
The foundation
A regulatorily clean partner, able to connect to court proceedings, with no reputational risk for your law firm.
Officially authorised in Austria and Germany, a clean regulatory basis.
Our approach is confirmed by the Austrian Supreme Court, a value that legally trained clients can appreciate.
Able to connect to court proceedings via electronic legal communication.
Data handover and liability
For law firms, the transfer of data is the most sensitive point of any outsourcing. Handing over a claim to a licensed debt collection agency is permissible under data protection law: collecting a legitimate claim is a legitimate purpose, and processing the debtor data for it is covered. You hand over only the data needed for the collection and keep authority over the mandate.
Where incaseof.law processes data on your behalf, this is set out cleanly by contract. You know which data is processed for which purpose, and you can document this towards your clients.
What is handed over is the claim amount, the reason for the claim, the date and the debtor's details, not the entire client file. Whatever is not needed for the collection stays in the law firm.
The legal assessment of the claim stays with the law firm, the operational collection lies with the agency. Each side is responsible for its part, which avoids grey areas and reputational risks.
If no payment can be reached out of court, the step into court proceedings runs via electronic legal communication, without a media break and without you having to hand the claim over to a further service provider.
Relief in volume business
The biggest lever is not in the single disputed claim, but in recurring volume business: many similar, undisputed receivables that are individually too small to justify a lawyer hour, but in sum burden the back office and the deadline calendar. It is exactly this volume that can be outsourced, while the individual legal question stays in the law firm.
Law firms with higher volumes connect their software via the connector and hand over open items in bulk instead of processing each claim individually. Dunning runs and deadlines then run automatically at the agency.
Deadline monitoring and follow-up for collection are taken over by incaseof.law. This relieves the law firm's deadline calendar exactly where it is most crowded, with the many small items.
Whether ten or a thousand claims, the effort on the firm's side stays equally low. You hand over, the rest scales at the agency, without you having to build up staff.
Why the handover holds
When you pass on a client claim, you hand over to a regulated partner with an approach confirmed by the Austrian Supreme Court, one that can connect to court proceedings. This is a handover you can justify towards your clients without taking on a reputational risk.
incaseof.law GmbH, Rathausstraße 21/13, 1010 Vienna, Austria. Registered in the commercial register of the Vienna Commercial Court, FN 505409 z. Managing Director Dr. Maximilian Kindler, LL.M., MBA.
The context
A question of resources, not of status. For scalable collection you outsource, for the individual legal question the law firm stays responsible.
What it costs
incaseof.law works in a way that 100% of the collected claim goes to you or your clients. There is no success fee and no commission on the principal claim, a point that law firms rightly care about.
What debt collection costsof the claim to the creditor. The cost is borne by the debtor.
The collaboration
The cooperation is built on one clear point: your law firm and your clients keep 100% of the claim, the cost of the default is borne by the debtor. How you hand over the claim is up to you.
You hand over client claims in your name and remain the point of contact. The collection runs in the background, the payout goes to you or directly to the client. You control who is informed and when.
Instead of handing over yourself, you can recommend incaseof.law to your clients as a solution. The client submits the claim directly, the law firm stays out of the ongoing handling and keeps the overview.
Outstanding fee invoices and unpaid invoices of the law firm you hand over the same way. The payout goes to your law firm, 100% of the claim, without your back-office hours flowing into dunning runs.
The same principle applies in all models: no opaque commission model on the principal claim. The debt collection costs arising from the default are borne by the defaulting debtor, the principal claim stays unreduced with you or your clients. Which model fits your law firm, we clarify in a short conversation.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Lawyers and law firms can hand over both their own claims and client claims to a licensed debt collection agency. The legal work and the client relationship stay with the law firm.
Collection ties up lawyer and back-office hours that are rarely billable at cost. For recurring or high-volume claims, outsourcing pays off, while the individual legal question stays with the law firm.
incaseof.law works in a way that 100% of the collected claim goes to you or your clients. There is no opaque commission model on the principal claim.
Yes. The law firm remains the point of contact for its clients. incaseof.law takes over debtor communication, dunning runs and collection in the background.
The firm's own claims such as outstanding fee invoices, and claims that the firm's clients hold against their debtors.
The law firm remains the point of contact for its clients and decides who is informed and when. The debtor communication is taken over by incaseof.law as a licensed debt collection agency, factual and focused on payment. Alternatively, you can also recommend incaseof.law directly to your clients so that they submit the claim themselves.
You submit individual claims digitally, for which you need the claim amount, the date and the debtor's details. Law firms with higher volumes connect their software via the connector and hand over open items in bulk instead of uploading each claim individually. Every case is then traceable in the portal.
Yes. Handing over a legitimate claim to a licensed debt collection agency pursues a legitimate purpose, and processing the debtor data for it is covered. The handover is data-minimising and only includes what is needed for the collection, the claim amount, the reason for the claim, the date and the debtor's details, not the entire client file. Where incaseof.law processes on your behalf, this is set out by contract so that you can document it towards your clients.
The legal assessment of the claim stays with the law firm, the operational collection is the responsibility of incaseof.law as a licensed agency whose approach is confirmed by the OGH. This clear split of responsibility avoids grey areas: each side is responsible for its part, and you hand over to a regulated partner that can connect to court proceedings.
Yes. Outstanding fee invoices and unpaid invoices of the law firm you hand over the same way as client claims. The payout goes to your law firm, 100% of the claim, without lawyer or back-office hours flowing into your own fee collection.
There is no commission model on the principal claim. 100% of the collected claim goes to your law firm or directly to your clients. The debt collection costs arising from the default are borne by the defaulting debtor. Which model fits you, on behalf of the law firm, as a recommendation to clients or for the firm's own claims, we clarify in a short conversation.
You hand over to a licensed debt collection agency, authorised in Austria and Germany, whose approach is confirmed by the OGH and which can connect to court proceedings via electronic legal communication. This is a handover to a regulated partner that you can justify towards your clients.
Yes. incaseof.law is a licensed debt collection agency whose approach is confirmed by the OGH, with a connector to electronic legal communication. Behind the company stands incaseof.law GmbH, based in Vienna, registered in the commercial register of the Vienna Commercial Court.
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