We offer fixed fee, hourly rates and corporate retainers.

Where we are engaged to draft, amend or negotiate a contract, we will attempt to provided you with a fixed fee service for a specific scope of services. For instance, to hold a consultation with you, draft your contract, hold a further consultation and collate your requested changes, make the amendments and deliver a final document.

Where we are engaged on an hourly basis, we will attempt to provide you with correspondence outlining our estimated costs based on a low and high range for each step of the process. In Australia, most lawyers charge on an hourly basis for matters that are difficult to predict the time and resources to complete your matter, for instance, litigation matters. In these circumstances the hourly rates are charged in billable units.

Where we are engaged on a corporate retainer, we work with the client in advance to understand their 3-week to 6-month requirements. We then prepare a scope of works of what will be included, and what will be excluded and the estimated time it will take to undertake the services on a weekly or monthly basis. Based on the number of hours and the complexity of work, we then provide a fixed fee rate at a discounted price to our standard hourly rates. We then work collaboratively with the client so that if we go well beyond the estimated hours per week or month, or provide services far less than anticipated, then we will review the services provided and negotiate a rise or fall to the fixed fee rate, if both parties agree to that adjustment, and it is fair and reasonable.

A billable unit is a 6-minute minimum interval of time for each activity recorded on your matter. For instance, if you hold a telephone conversation with a lawyer for 10 minutes, you may be charged 2 billable units equating to 12 minutes of time. This is standard within the legal industry. The reason for this is because lawyers are required to review your file, then make the call, record their file notes from the call, save the documents to the file, and action the next step. This means although the call may have been 10 minutes, there are several administrative tasks that must also be completed as part of the telephone call.

Notwithstanding this, unlike some traditional law firms, we do not charge for one line emails, leaving telephone messages, sending text messages or similar. We believe any charge that we apply to your file must provide be fair, reasonable and proportionate to the services being provided.

Maybe. No Win, No Fee means that a lawyer is sharing the risk with you and does not get paid unless you have a successful outcome and money is paid to you.

No Win, No Fee is common practice in personal injury matters because there is generally little doubt that a payment will be made eventually if an injury has been sustained. However, in commercial matters, there is always doubt as to whether a matter will be successful. This means that we would need to pass up paying matters, to accept matters that have doubt as to whether we will be paid for our services.

Based on the above, we generally will only take on No Win, No Fee matters if it is a kind of matter that we are passionate about to assist our client in achieving justice or a favourable outcome, or alternatively, if we believe we will have capacity to take on the matter and there are strong prospects of success. In all No Win, No Fee matters, they are carefully selected and we have a limitation of only a handful per year.

Our fees for drafting standard contracts such as term sheets, convertible notes, save notes, shareholder agreements, master services agreements, distribution agreements, licencing agreement, employment related contracts and policies and terms and conditions and services contracts range from $1,200 + GST to $4,000 + GST.

Our fees for drafting bespoke contracts such as collaborative research agreements, joint ventures, affiliate agreements or complex technology or construction contracts range from $3,000 + GST and upwards.