Costs of legal activities
Legal services on the highest level come at a price.
The costs of legal activities conform to the Rechtsanwaltverguetungsgesetz (RVG) [law relating to the remuneration of attorneys] which on 1st July 2004 effectively replaced the Bundesrechtsanwaltsgebuehrenordnung (BRAGO) [Federal Attorneys’ Fees Act] that had been valid until then.
Decisive for the amount of attorneys’ fees is thus basically the object value of the matter dealt with, whereby often time or flat-fee agreements are made especially in out-of-court matters that are determined by the significance of the legal matter and the actual expenditure of work.
In addition, we offer commercial clients in particular, comprehensive consultations with regard to any possible legal problem in the sense of an external legal department on the basis of individually agreed monthly consultation fees.
Since 1st July 2008 it has been permissible to agree on an attorney contingency fee in individual or exceptional cases. This is aimed at enabling especially private persons, who have neither legal insurance nor access to legal aid, to decrease the risk of high costs for legal disputes that they would otherwise avoid. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the attorneys’ fee in the event of losing a case while an additional fee is agreed on for winning a case.