Insurance

Law firm Šimberský is insured against liability for damage caused to its clients by the insurance company Generali pojišťovna a.s. Our rate of a claim payment under lawyer’s professional indemnity insurance is 22.000.000,- CZK, which is more than the compulsory minimum rate set by the regulations of the Czech Bar Association.

When requested by the client, we are able to arrange an ad hoc professional indemnity insurance for a specific case, where the rate of a claim payment may be higher.

During the whole time of Mgr. Šimberský’s career, no client has ever claimed the existence of liability against Mgr. Šimberský.

Fees

The client can choose between three types of fees: 1/ an hourly fee, 2/ fixed monthly rate or 2/ non – contractual fee. VAT is added to the final sum for legal services.

• Hourly fee
  
  Basic hourly fee for the so-called “simple legal matters” is 2,000 CZK. This category of legal services includes primarily civil law legal counseling, for example divorce, representation before courts regarding custody of children and minors and maintenance, real estate transactions, less complicated ownership disputes or lower amount debt recovery within civil law relationships.
  
  Basic hourly fee intended for other legal matters is 2,500 CZK. This category includes especially legal services in commercial law, complicated ownership disputes, large amount debt recovery and so on.
  
  Within the hourly fee the following legal services are distinguished:
  • legal services charged in full rate (basic hourly fee), which include above all representation before courts, meetings with client, negotiations with counterparty, drafting of pleadings (actions, statements, appeals etc.), writing of legal analysis, drafting of contracts or other legal acts, study of a case, study of legal sources (case law, doctrine), study of documents provided by the client or study of the court’s file, communication with client, with court or with counterparty etc.;
  • legal services charged as 50% of the hourly fee (reduced hourly fee), which include legal services executed by legal assistants, for example drafting of less complex legal acts or letters, file inspection at the court, time lost in relation to the provision of legal services by travelling to the location and back, in some cases study of a case and of the legal sources etc;
  • non–charged legal services,which include administrative work, i.e. especially handing out of documents, communication with client regarding full power of attorney or organization matters etc.;
  The minimum charged period is a quarter-hour.
  
  We administrate continuously detailed specification of provided legal services for each client. This specification is a separate attachment to each issued invoice. Each client has the right to check his file any time (after previous request).
  
  We charge extra 30 % for legal services provided in foreign language and for legal services provided urgently.
  
  
• Non - contractual fee
  
  The non – contractual fee is governed by relevant provisions of the Regulation of the Ministry of Justice No. 177/1996 Coll., providing for fees and remuneration of lawyers for their provision of legal services (so-called Lawyer´s tariff) as amended (non-contractual fee), which means that the client pays legal services recognized as the so-called legal acts by the Lawyer´s tariff, the rate per one act being set by the Lawyer´s tariff as well.
  
  We may ask the client to make an advanced payment when beginning a new case.