Insurance and prices

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 10.000.000,- 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

We charge:

• hourly fee, ranging from 2.500,- to 4.000,- CZK, depending on the complexity of the case;
  • within the hourly fee the following legal services are distinguished:
    • legal services charged in full rate (basic hourly fee), which include 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 etc.;
    • legal services charged as 50% of the hourly fee (reduced hourly fee), which include study of a case, study of legal sources (case law, doctrine), examination of court’s file, communication with client, with court or with counterparty, drafting of less complex legal acts, time lost in relation to the provision of legal services by travelling to the location and back (when performing acts outside of Prague);
    • non–charged legal services, which include administrative work, i.e. especially designation of legally effective judgements, travelling to the court and back in order to personally hand in pleadings, communication with client regarding 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 look into his file any time (after previous request);
  • when it comes to a permanent cooperation with the client, individual conditions may be stipulated;
  • we charge extra 30 % for legal services provided in foreign language and for legal services provided urgently and not during our regular working hours;
• when our fee is not set by a contract with the client as an hourly fee, it shall be 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 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.