Negotiating A Retainer
If you make an appointment to see a Tampa Lawyer, more than likely you will find that the initial appointment is free and you won’t have to pay anything. However, if the attorney agrees to accept your case and represent you, you’ll probably have to pay a retainer.
Think of a retainer as a big word for a deposit. As most lawyers get paid for their time. They bill for their time in the form of hours. Each hour they spend on your case they will bill off to your account and work off your retainer (deposit).
So unless you have an attorney that agrees to work on a contingency basis (we’ll get into that in a future article), you will need to make a sizeable deposit into the attorney’s trust account. When I say sizeable I do mean substantial. How substantial? Well that depends.
I know from a close friend who got caught driving drunk in Fort Lauderdale that her retainer wasn’t cheap at all. Get a DUI charge and you’ll be looking to pay a Fort Lauderdale DUI Attorney $3,000.00 or more. Get charged with murder…well let’s just say you may need to hit lotto!
So make sure that you understand what you will have to pay, when you’ll have to pay it and what you’re getting billed for. And oh yeah…before I forget…make sure you are sitting down when they tell you what the hourly rate they will be billing you.
When the Tampa lawyer you choose tells you how much they bill per hour, you’ll wish you listened to your mother, stayed in school and became an attorney.
Don’t be surprised to hear a figure as high as $500.00 bucks per hour. It will more than likely be somewhere between $150.00 and $350.00 but remember, especially when hiring a Tampa lawyer, you get what you pay for.
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