Our fees

Besides the operating costs of our office, our fees cover the various intellectual services we are providing, such as :

The financial conditions of our interventions vary according to several criteria, among which field of law, lawyer’s seniority and specialisation, stake of the file, urgency of the requested services…

We are giving priority to the fixing of fees on the basis of a hourly rate communicated to you at the time of our first contacts and that can possibly be adjusted depending on the obtained result. Such possibility will then be agreed upon beforehand.

It is often risky, not to say impossible, to predict accurately the total cost of our interventions, because such cost varies especially according to parameters that are beyond our control like , for instance, the degree of “resistance” of the opponent party.

We are drawing our clients’ attention to the fact they may contribute to the limitation of their lawyer’s costs and fees by encouraging negotiation, preparing as soon as possible files that will be complete as well as clear notes, avoiding too many communications with their lawyer, using moderately the telephone, giving priority to written information …

In some particular cases, fixed fees may be agreed upon.

Accordingly “standard” formulae can be provided for our “regular” clients.

On top of the fees the costs directly linked to the file management will be reimbursed by the clients who are so taking care of the costs incurred for file opening and closing, secretarial work and correspondence, electronic mail, photocopies and faxes, phone calls and file archiving.

The method of calculation of such costs and the rate, especially per typed page, are communicated to our clients at the beginning of our intervention.

Most of the time we are asking at the beginning of the file for the payment of a retainer that will be deducted from the subsequent fees.

Later on and as a general rule, we are sending to our clients as and when their file progresses:

Our clients can ask us at any time to be informed about the financial situation of their file.

On top of the costs and fees our clients may have to reimburse us the expenses made on their behalf.

These are essentially costs of registry, copies, search of domicile, civil status documents, land register, mortgage statements, repressive files, business information …

These costs are hence passed on at cost price.

However a litigation might give rise to the assistance of other professional interveners (bailiffs, notaries, auditors, technical consultants …) our clients are paying directly.

Their intervention will however only be asked if our clients instruct us to do so.