Retaining a lawyer means hiring a lawyer to help you with your legal problem. This has two parts: a letter that says you want to work with the lawyer and a payment called a retainer.
Once you have hired us, we will give you a letter that explains what we will do for you and how we will work together. This includes how much you will pay us and how we will keep your information confidential.
Sometimes, we will ask you to pay us some money upfront as a retainer. This is like a deposit on our work, and we will keep it safe for you in our trust account. As we do work for you and send you bills, we will take money from the retainer to pay for our work. If we need to do more work, we might ask you for another retainer. If we finish the work and there is still money left in the retainer, we will give it back to you.
