Here our lawyer’s work is calculated in reference to the actual time he / she devotes to complete each task.

Our hourly rates vary between PLN 300 and PLN 500 for 1 hour of our work + VAT.

Our hourly rate depends on our lawyer’s experience, the complexity of the task and the level of responsibility we assume, in your matter. Cases requiring significant level of experience / and international – cross border matters are usually more expensive than cases handled entirely in Poland or that are routine.

RULES ORGANISING OUR FEES

• we make sure that our fees are calculated fairly, proportionatelyy and transparently in reference to the task you ask us to do;
• we will provide you with an estimate of cost, before you decide to engage our services;
• you may always ask us to stop working on your case, and you can do it any given time – we will return the unused money with the statements of how the fees were calculated;
• we will send you a statements of what we have done in your case, either at the end of the case or after a certain stage of your matter (that largely depend on what we will agree in the agreement);
• if our fees will be higher, than the estimated value of what you will achieve as a result – we inform you about it before you will engage our services or at the time it will become apparent to us. It would be left to you to decide whether you would want to continue work.
• if the our engagement may not bring the expected result or this result will be less advantageous to you, to what thought initially, we will tell this you in advance;
• if any steps you ask us to take, will likely to bring more harm than good, we may also recommend alternative solutions (whether based on the mechanisms of Alternative dispute resolutions or propose alternative approach to your case). The expected costs of our legal services are then expected to be lower.

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We usually offer fixed fee for one step that we will take in your case (i.e. writing an opinion or advice on certain point or providing one document). This is usually proposed in simple matters, where we have clear set of information from you (unlikely to be in the litigation).

Our fee is then limited only to what we have been asked to do; if you ask us to do something else (consult the matter with you/ do other things) – we are likely to impose hourly fees or propose you another staged fee.

Who can benefit?

• in simple matters that do not require reviewing documents or long time spent on gathering information from you or different sources;
• for Clients who wants to be sure of the costs they will pay;
• for those of our Clients who for various reasons, cannot afford additional fees;
• when the end of our engagement is unlikely to precisely defined.

After completing the task – if you wish additional advice you can ask for it – however, we have the right to ask for an additional fee.

When it is likely, that there are a lot of documents to review by us, before our services are retained, we may ask for a fee, to peruse these documents.

In Poland, lawyers, as a general rule, cannot agree all types of fees with their Client. Law firms are regulated business in Poland and we have to follow certain rules when agreeing fees with our Clients. One rule is that we can’t agree a fee that would be fully dependent on outcome we will achieve in your case (we are unable, just a matter of example agree to act under so called ‘conditional fee agreements’).

We have however an option of agreeing a ‘mixed’ or ‘blended’ fees with our Clients i.e. agree a small amount charged at the commencement of the assignment – while the remaining sums will be collected when we win it. If we will not win it, we will not be paid.

A conditional fee agreements are type of contracts, in which we are paid for the effects of our work or for meeting an objective, we agreed to meet in your case.

With these type of fee arrangements, we take part of the risk associated with your case, on us. When we propose this type of fees to you, as a general rule you do not incur fees for our services – but you are responsible for the expenses in the case (expenses: are necessary costs in running the case – for example court fees, translations, costs of obtaining expert opinions necessary in the proceedings, costs of travel and accommodation of lawyer handling your matter, if and when required).

Who can benefit?

• Generally this is offered in complex matters, where we know that we can bring a remedy (personal injury / accident cases / cases where we have a solvent and potent opponent);
• In cases where the other party is more potent, and we know that thanks to this agreement we will have more freedom in taking certain action for you.

Information on costs will be provided to you in our initial email, contract for services or in our Standard Terms and Conditions of Services – which will be provided to you, before engaging us.

In certain cases, we can offer free 30-minute consultation that can take place at our offices, online or by phone.

The purpose of the free consultation is familiarize with your case and form an opinion on whether we can assist you in your matter.

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