Initial Consultation
We provide an initial telephone consultation, for up to 15 minutes, free of charge. During the initial consultation, you will speak directly with our Practice Director, who will provide his preliminary views on the matter, prior to reading or reviewing any documents, as well as provide you with an indication of our fixed or estimated legal fees, to be able to commence work on your legal matter.
If you would like to discuss your matter with our Practice Director by telephone, please call (02) 9233 4048. If we are not not available to take your call, please leave a voicemail message with your name and phone number and a short description about what your enquiry is about and our Practice Director will return your call as soon as possible, usually on the same day as your enquiry and as soon as possible after your voicemail.
Our Professional Legal Costs
Where it is appropriate and possible for us to do, we charge on a fixed fee basis, where we can fix our legal fees for a particular task or tasks that we are instructed to work on, by you.
In matters where it is more difficult to predict precisely what the total legal fees will be, we will charge on an hourly rate basis, but we usually estimate the number of hours, as well as the estimated costs, for the next stage of legal work that we are about to carry out. We charge for our professional time in six (6) minute time units, to ensure our costs are fair and reflect the actual amount of professional time spent on your matter. We usually estimate legal costs in stages and ask for funds up-front, in stages throughout your matter, as it progresses.
We do our best to keep our legal fees fair and reasonable and disclose fees up-front, in writing, at all times.
