When we send you an invoice/statement of account, it will have three parts: legal fees, disbursements, and other charges.
Legal fees are what we charge you for our work and are subject to a tax called GST. Usually, we charge you for our time based on how long it takes us to work on your case. This includes things like phone calls, meetings, drafting documents, and going to court. We will send you regular bills that explain what work we did for you.
Sometimes, we charge a flat rate for certain types of work, or we might only get paid if we win your case.
Disbursements are payments we make to other people, like fees to file documents in court or to get copies of documents. You will have to pay these expenses on top of our legal fees, and you might have to pay GST on them too.
Other charges are for things like making copies or printing documents. These aren’t legal fees, but you still have to pay for them.
