7,367
edits
Difference between revisions of "You and Your Lawyer"
From Clicklaw Wikibooks
→Finding and hiring a lawyer
Mark Norton (talk | contribs) m |
Nate Russell (talk | contribs) |
||
| Line 66: | Line 66: | ||
(A family law mediator <span class="noglossary">will</span> ask you to sign an Agreement to Mediate rather than the usual retainer agreement. The Agreement to Mediate <span class="noglossary">will</span> set out the details of the mediator's rate and expectations about payment, and how each mediation session <span class="noglossary">will</span> be paid for. The same thing applies to family law arbitrators. Parenting coordinators <span class="noglossary">will</span> want you to sign a Parenting Coordination Agreement, and <span class="noglossary">will</span> usually ask for both a retainer and a fee deposit.) | (A family law mediator <span class="noglossary">will</span> ask you to sign an Agreement to Mediate rather than the usual retainer agreement. The Agreement to Mediate <span class="noglossary">will</span> set out the details of the mediator's rate and expectations about payment, and how each mediation session <span class="noglossary">will</span> be paid for. The same thing applies to family law arbitrators. Parenting coordinators <span class="noglossary">will</span> want you to sign a Parenting Coordination Agreement, and <span class="noglossary">will</span> usually ask for both a retainer and a fee deposit.) | ||
===Unbundled family law services=== | |||
Traditionally, retaining a lawyer meant handing all the legal work over to the lawyer and their staff to handle. More recently, however, a different kind of retainer agreement called a ''limited scope retainer'' has become more popular. Another term that's used for this arrangement is ''unbundling'' or ''unbundled legal services''. With unbundled legal services, a lawyer or paralegal is only doing some of the work. It could be helping to prepare the first documents required to start a case, or helping to negotiate with the other party, or any other task that the agreement specifies. The arrangement usually costs less than full-scope legal representation because the lawyer providing unbundled legal services works on, and charges you for, only those tasks that you agree to in advance. | |||
Not all family lawyers offer this arrangement, however there is a BC Family Unbundling Roster online listing of ones that do. Visit [http://www.unbundling.ca www.unbundling.ca] to learn more. | |||
==How your lawyer charges you== | ==How your lawyer charges you== | ||
