Attorney’s fees

Please contact us for a fee estimate of your matter. As far as possible, we will provide a binding estimate of our fees. As long as nothing is agreed upon for out-of-court matters, our fees for the services will be based on legal guidelines.

According to these legal guidelines, which attorneys are obliged to comply with, fees for each particular matter must be calculated on the basis of scale fees for standard tasks. In civil law, attorney’s fees must be calculated mainly according to the value of the matter in controversy. The underlying principle is that the attorney’s fee comprises on the one hand the forecast (not virtual) labour factor and on the other hand the attorney’s risk of liability. The German Chamber of Lawyers provides further information on this topic (also concerning the calculation of fees).

We are not allowed to give legal advice on a particular matter without mandatory power and accompanying fee calculation according to the code of professional conduct and competition law.

According to legal regulations, if an attorney answers a definite enquiry via e-mail or telephone, this causes the appropriate attorney’s fee. In order to avoid undesired fees, you should state clearly in your enquiry that you wish to receive a costs estimate before getting legal advice. Thus, the decision on further action is up to you and you can avoid cost risks.

If you request our advice concerning an out-of-court matter, we usually determine a fee on an hourly basis according to the amount of work done. In order to make our legal fees more transparent to our clients, we also offer you a fixed fee.

For our numerous regular mandates we offer alternative payment schemes, such as monthly and annual fixed fee payments.

Based on our experiences, we have also prepared consultation packages for our clients. Within such a package we charge a fixed fee for out-of-court counselling by our attorneys-at-law irrespective of the time involved. These include among others:

• First consultation € 232
• Web site check € 590
• Counselling with respect to an admonishment € 290

Please contact us to have us estimate the fees due for your legal matter.

Before you choose one of our counselling packages, please take into consideration the following information as well as data protection policydata protection policy:

• A client-lawyer relationship with Horak Attorneys-at-Law is not created by “submitting” an online form to Horak Attorneys-at-Law. A client-lawyer relationship ensues when Horak Attorneys-at-Law have sent a separate confirmation of taking over the case. We kindly ask you for your understanding that we first have to verify if your data is complete; this also serves your legal security.
• The forms requesting one of our consultancy packages are to be sent per e-mail. Having sent the form you will be redirected to our home page. Your form has been successfully sent if you do not receive an error report. You can also give us the above information by telephone, fax or – with your further remarks – by e-mail.
• We recommend that you print and keep a copy of the form after completing it.