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Legal fees

Transparency is our top priority when it comes to the costs incurred for our work on your behalf or on behalf of your company. It is our aim to ensure that our clients can estimate, as far as possible, what costs they will or could incur. We provide a highly specialised professional service for our clients, for which we have undergone extensive training and continue to undertake further training on an ongoing basis. In the interests of our clients, our firm always strives to develop and implement the right solution. Engaging a solicitor at an early stage very often pays off, especially as it can help to avoid more serious problems, which can be much more costly to resolve if they arise at a later stage.

Attorney’s fees

The legal basis for attorney’s fees is, on the one hand, the attorney’s tariff (see RATG in its current version). On the other hand, the applicable General Legal Fee Criteria (AHK) of the Austrian Bar Association can be/are used.

The specific amount of the attorney’s fee is then calculated based on the value of the matter or the assessment basis, whereby either statutory rates apply, or an agreement must be reached.

In addition, there is always scope for agreeing on a free fee in the form of a flat rate or an hourly rate. Our services are invoiced using the following methods:

The solicitor’s tariff (see Solicitors’ Tariff Act – RATG) is applied. This type of billing includes reasonable ancillary services such as conferences, telephone calls, communication with clients and third parties, etc. Extensive settlement efforts that exceed the average are regularly charged separately.
As with the standard rate, the solicitor’s tariff (see Solicitors’ Tariff Act – RATG) is applied. However, when billing according to individual services, all activities are recorded individually, and also billed individually.
For general legal advice, for acting as an outsourced legal department for small and medium-sized enterprises, for legal opinions or research, etc., it can be advantageous for both sides to charge according to an hourly rate. We can often estimate in advance approximately how many hours might be required for a particular task, which means that the client’s costs can usually be estimated accurately.
In this case, the likely costs can be estimated accurately in advance – the client knows what costs they will incur, and the solicitor knows how much work will be involved. This may be the right choice of billing method for both parties in cases such as contracts or trademark applications.
If such insurance exists and covers out-of-court or court proceedings for clients and policyholders, this insurance will usually cover all legal fees (for both sides) and court costs (flat fees, expert fees, witness fees, etc.) in the event of court proceedings, although deductibles may apply in individual cases.

We will be happy to check with your legal expenses insurer on your behalf or on behalf of your company to see whether the relevant component is still insured and whether cover can be provided. Under certain circumstances, it may be necessary to bring an action for cover against your insurer (legal expenses insurance and other insurance policies) to persuade them to cover our intervention on your behalf or on behalf of your company if the refusal of cover is unjustified.

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It is always our goal to find a billing method that suits you or your company for the legal issue at hand.

Further information on billing and legal fees (questions of prevailing, reimbursement of costs, reimbursement of costs according to equity, legal costs settlement, etc.) is available on request by emailing kanzlei@rechtsatelier.at and/or during a consultation appointment / video conference at our law firm.

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