Rates

General rules

1.-The client will be informed, prior to the acceptance of the matter, of the foreseeable cost of the matter, in terms of the firm’s fees, approximately and whenever possible. Our fees will not include the expenses of other professionals who may intervene in the matter (solicitors, experts, etc…), which will be freely chosen by the client, without prejudice to the fact that the firm will look for them and take care of their hiring if nothing to the contrary is indicated to us. Possible resources and incidents that may occur after the quotation, and which will be informed as they arise for the acceptance of their cost, will not be included either.

2.- At the time of the assignment of any matter, for a greater guarantee of the client, the corresponding professional assignment sheet will be formalized, in which in the clearest and most precise way possible the economic conditions agreed between the office and the client in relation to the matter that is entrusted will be established, conditions that will be invariable during the whole development of the work.

3.- The aspects that basically are taken into account to elaborate a budget of a matter are the following ones:
• Time needed to carry out the work.
• External professionals that must intervene in the matter (procurator, experts, notary’s office, notary’s office, …).
• Travel, meetings and/or foreseeable negotiations to be carried out by the professional involved in the matter.
• Expenses of any kind that may be incurred.
• Specialty or difficulty of the matter to which the professional assignment refers.
• Professionals and resources of the firm to be involved in the matter.
• Economic or other importance of the matter.
• Possible final results that it is estimated could be obtained.

4.- The prices of the services of this professional office are established based on the characteristics and prestige of the office itself and its specialties, and standardized for all clients, although the application of discounts is foreseen based on the number/importance of the matters that are entrusted, as well as the presentation of new clients for the office (bonus system, in this case).

5.- In those professional actions that are carried out and the form of accrual is not specifically contemplated in these rules, as long as it has not been specifically agreed otherwise in writing, the Rules of Professional Fees elaborated by the Valencian Council of Bar Associations, in force at the end of the assignment and that has been elaborated internally to inform in the swearing of accounts or in the judicial claims of fees between lawyer and client, will be of supplementary application.

6.- Consultations will always be charged, except when they correspond to a file in process or when they are made by regular clients of the office (those who have been taken or are being taken in firm in the office more than three cases). The price of the first consultation is fixed at 80€. When, as a result of this consultation, the professional assignment of the matter takes place, the amount paid for the consultation will be discounted later in the budget or final cost of the same.

7.- The form of payment in judicial matters will be 25% at the moment of the assignment of the matter, 50% throughout the procedure and the remaining 25% with the sentence or finalization of the matter.
In out-of-court proceedings, as a general rule and without prejudice to the fact that fixed prices or percentages may be established for specific proceedings, payment shall be made by means of the system of fees per hour of professional work. And also, taking into account its special characteristics and wide casuistry and particularities, a provision of funds will be requested to be specified when the matter is commissioned and the rest will be charged according to the evolution of the same, normally at the end of the intervention.

8.- The firm will use the Quota Litis system (charging a percentage of the economic result of the case), with a minimum that covers the expenses in the event of not obtaining positive results, provided that this is feasible according to the type of case that is entrusted. Such a system will be usable, especially when the client entrusts matters of debt collection or claims for amounts in any specialty (civil, labor, administrative, …), civil liabilities claimed in criminal matters, insurance and indemnities. In these cases no prior provision of funds will be required by the firm, except for the strictly necessary to meet the expected expenses and those of other professionals who must necessarily intervene.

9.- In any matter to be dealt with a fixed amount of 50€ will be charged, in concept of opening of the file, amount destined to the attention of general fixed expenses that the office generates for the discharge of the own matter and other indeterminate fixed expenses (office material, photocopies, reports and correspondence to send client, telephone, …).

10.- The provisions of funds that the Firm may request from the client to start a job will be increased by those requested by other professionals involved in the entrusted matter (e.g., attorneys, experts, etc.) or by the necessary expenses to be incurred (notaries, registries, investigation of solvency, experts, travel of the professional outside the locality, etc.).

11.- There are permanent advisings for companies, through the subscription of contracts of equalization, which represents the payment of a fixed monthly quota during the agreed duration. There are several modalities and prices depending on whether such advice includes the provision of more or less extensive services and/or judicial or only extrajudicial claims. Consult for each case.

12.- The general rates of fees in force at any given moment will be exposed to the public for its general knowledge in the reception area of the Law Firm and, if applicable, in the web page of the same, which are the only requirements for them to be applicable. During the period of two months following each update, the client with a matter in process may demand the express application to his matter of the repealed rates, in which case the firm reserves the right to invoice the professional fees accrued up to that moment and to cease the professional assignment, assigning the permission to continue the matter to the lawyer appointed by the client.

13.- With these rules and fee rates the firm Zanón&Abogados intends to define a clear and transparent pricing policy for the services it may offer, recommending the client to consult, in full confidence, the specific case if it is not covered by the particular rules that are included in the rates published on this website.