Empowering Freelancers
Protect your freelance revenue with our cutting edge-dispute resolution platform
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Fast(resolve payment
disputes within
45 days) - Easy(all online)
- Affordable(no lawyer's fees)
Helping Freelancers Get Paid
Brief's online arbitration process makes
enforcing your freelance contracts easy
As a freelancer, you know how difficult it can be to get paid on time. You also know there’s not a whole lot you can do when clients don’t pay. Collection agencies? They take up to 50% of what they recover. Getting a lawyer and taking your client to court for a single unpaid invoice? Not worth the time, money, or hassle.
When it comes to unpaid invoices, there just aren’t many options for freelancers.
Until now.
The Tools to Enforce Your Contracts
Brief’s online arbitration platform enforces your freelance contracts at a fraction of the cost, giving you legally binding resolutions within 45 days of your claim.
It’s all done online and there are no collection agencies or lawyers needed.
What Our Clients Say
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How To Get Started With Brief
By moving the dispute resolution process online, we streamline settlements and arbitrations, giving you access to legal remedies that were once out of reach for freelancers.
- Integrate our free arbitration clause into your freelancing contracts. (If you don't have contracts, you should.)
- Send your freelancing contract to clients and commence work as usual.
- If or when a client fails to pay you, start a claim, from anywhere, at anytime on thinkbrief.com
Why Arbitration?
By moving the dispute resolution process online, we streamline settlements and arbitrations, giving you access to legal remedies that were once out of reach for freelancers.
Recoup Costs
When you make a claim, you can demand that any fees and costs involved in the arbitration process be recovered, essentially shifting the costs of arbitration to the client.
Let Them Know You Mean Business
With an arbitration clause in your contract and the weight of the law behind you, your clients will know to take your invoice policy seriously.
10 X More Efficient
Brief’s online arbitration platform resolves claims in around 45 days, compared to 410 days with traditional litigation or arbitration. We also make the process up to 90% more cost-effective. You only pay when a dispute happens.
Take Control of Your Invoice Recovery
Having a written contract in place with Brief’s arbitration clause gives you control over your freelance income.
Binding arbitration depends on having a detailed terms of service contract that is relevant and fit for the purpose. Many freelancers don’t utilize terms of service contracts when they begin to work with a new client. With the cost of hiring a lawyer and suing in civil court if the client breaches the contract, it’s easy to see why not. But with Brief’s online arbitration platform, filing an arbitration claim is easy, and makes having terms of services contracts a must for freelancers.
What’s in an arbitration clause?
An arbitration clause states that in case of default or dispute an arbitration platform that you and your client both agree on can be used to trigger a resolution process that is legally binding. When both parties sign the contract and agree, then the pathway to resolution is made simple, fast and effective.
The Brief Claims Process
Start Your Claim Online
Generate a claim online and upload your corresponding evidence. Brief serves your defaulting client (the Defendant) via email and certified mail.
Judge is Assigned
An independent and impartial judge with expertise in default settlements is then assigned to your claim.
Award Issued
The judge will issue an Award which can then be filed with the court to be converted into an enforceable judgment.
Defendant Responds
After being served with the claim, the Defendant is given access to our platform, and is given the opportunity to settle or respond to the claim. If they choose not to participate, the arbitration proceeds without their input.
Judge Reviews Evidence
The judge reviews all of the evidence and, if need be, can message you or the Defendant through the platform with any questions.
Start Your Claim Online
Generate a claim online and upload your corresponding evidence. Brief serves your defaulting client (the Defendant) via email and certified mail.
Judge is Assigned
An independent and impartial judge with expertise in default settlements is then assigned to your claim.
Award Issued
The judge will issue an Award which can then be filed with the court to be converted into an enforceable judgment.
Defendant Responds
After being served with the claim, the Defendant is given access to our platform, and is given the opportunity to settle or respond to the claim. If they choose not to participate, the arbitration proceeds without their input.
Judge Reviews Evidence
The judge reviews all of the evidence and, if need be, can message you or the Defendant through the platform with any questions.
The Brief Claims Process
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Start Your Claim Online
Generate a claim online and upload your corresponding evidence. Brief serves your defaulting client (the Defendant) via email and certified mail.
Judge is Assigned
An independent and impartial judge with expertise in default settlements is then assigned to your claim.
Award Issued
The judge will issue an Award which can then be filed with the court to be converted into an enforceable judgment.
Defendant Responds
After being served with the claim, the Defendant is given access to our platform, and is given the opportunity to settle or respond to the claim. If they choose not to participate, the arbitration proceeds without their input.
Judge Reviews Evidence
The judge reviews all of the evidence and, if need be, can message you or the Defendant through the platform with any questions.
Giving Freelancers The Power of Arbitration
Over 80% of Fortune 500 Companies use arbitration as their preferred dispute resolution process, but for most freelancers, arbitration has been out of reach. Until now.
Brief protects over $500 million in business contracts, and with our revolutionary online arbitration platform, we are giving freelancers access to the law without the legal fees.
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