Here’s how we charge for everything other than legal documents and forms:
The following notes have been taken from our terms and conditions and are given for guidance only.
This includes time spent looking over your documents, providing advise by telephone or e-mail and drawing your legal letters and documents.
We shall always try to give an estimate for your work if we are able to calculate how long it will take. However, if the period of time is incalculable or unknown, we shall inform you that we can work only against an hourly rate.
Pre-payment is essential. We do not start work until we have received cash in advance. You can make top-ups to your account in any sum you wish. The minimum sum to start is NZ$200.
You do not pay for normal office expenses but we do charge for travel costs, should you require us to come to you.
You will receive an invoice automatically when you pay us through our web site. It is available to download from your account. If you pay by cheque, no invoice will be issued automatically. Please ask us for one.
Need to know the balance on your account? We shall tell you any time you ask.
When we have finished your work, we will send back to you any balance of your money.
We do not generally conduct litigation or draft documents to transfer real property, but we can easily advise you on any such document or area of law. We are in contact with a number of barristers who shall be happy to take on your work, from simple advice to drafting a letter, to complete case management, through a tribunal, to the Appeals Tribunal. In those cases, your payment will be as they advise.
Example of help we give every day:
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· Client purchases lease agreement. She knows she needs it but is not certain of the terms and conditions that should go in it.
· Client sends us brief message to explain.
· We contact the client by telephone and explore the issues together. We fix an approximate start cost of NZ$800 - not a quote, but an estimate.
· Client pays into her new account via the Net Lawman website. She then contacts us to confirm she has made payment.
· We look at the information provided and ring client for explanation of a few of her ideas.
· We draw a first draft lease document and e-mail it to the client within 48 hours of payment.
· Client looks at the changes and returns with some additional points.
· We amend the draft to include all agreed finer details and send to the client.
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Client uses the document “Taylor made” to her requirements within four days of having first telephoned.
Professional time spent - 3 hours 10 minutes.
Cost to client NZ$800
Saving over solicitors NZ$1600, plus travel to their office
Based on commercial specialist rate of NZ$400 per hour and the high-street solicitor taking written instructions across a desk. Total time 4 hours.
You could make savings like this! Why risk the words being wrong when the solution costs so little?
These notes are supplementary to our terms and conditions
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