If these costs will be borne by an insurance covering legal costs  there will be no additional costs with the exception of the agreed contractual personal excess with the legal costs insurance.

If there would be only the legal advice, i.e. in one or more meetings with the client or writing a corresponding letter, and is not appearing against the client’s opponent, then the legal adviser will obtain an agreed fee as per legal regulations.

Is the attorney representing his client against his disputant or argues for his client at the court, so the attorney is cashing up as per law for attorney’s fees (RVG) as far as no cost agreement exists with the client.

Provided that the RVG does not prescribe it in another way, the fees for the attorney’s support are dependent on the value of the object. This object value is determined by means of a certain amount of money according to the legal interest of the client. In most of the cases it applies that the higher the object value, the higher the fees.

If for a certain activity a frame fee is arising the RVG determines this for special cases of social or criminal law, the attorney fixes individually the fees under consideration of all circumstances, mainly the volume of the legal assistance, the importance of the matter and the financial situation of the client.

In any case the legal fees for the attorney as per RVG depend on the real facts of the matter. The individual fees therefore are various and differ according to the matter. You will find the precise information regarding the cashing up as per RVG in the internet website of the Federal Association of Attorneys under www.brak.de.

When the attorney and his client conclude an agreement about the fees, especially amongst the fees for a certain period of time or a flat rate, any possible arrangements are permissible.

In case of a fee for a certain period of time only the real amount for that period will be charged, no matter what importance the subject represents. The client will receive a monthly statement of the precise working hours indicating the different activities. The special advantage of such an agreement is that the client has an impact on the chargeable fees by his cooperation and thus will favourably affect the payable fees.

Alternatively, we certainly can agree with a flat rate fee, which however will only be reasonable for both parties if the time needed may be estimated accordingly.

The payment will be due at the termination and fulfilment of the order, however at any time we are allowed to require a corresponding advance according to legal regulations.