LAWYERS COSTS IN SPAIN
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We have hired a company in Marbella called Law Birds we paid 3000 euros to them for them to act on our behalf in trying to recover money we passed over to Palmera Properties the builder being Mirador unfortunately this was 4years ago and
we decided to let them them act on our behalf and signed over power of attourney. When we met with the Lawyers we were told that this would be full payment for their services in recovery of the money. However they are now asking for a further 2000 euros for a barrister. Is this correct or do you think we should have only paid the first amount.
Thankyou any advice would help us.
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Hi pearson02
You really need to look deeply into what your contract says with them. If it's only their word I think you'd have to pay for this but you should ask Maria who posts on here. Here's her details. Good luck.
Maria L. de Castro
Lawyer
www.costaluzlawyers.es
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Lawbird are a good firm of Lawyers. It does not sound unreasonable to me(from my personal experience) to pay for a barrister on top of their fees.
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Hi Pearson,
I'm in touch with group of investors who are trying to recover their deposits at another project. I understand that they agreed to work with Lawbird on terms that they would only pay over an initial up front fee of around €3,000 and the balance of their fees would be charged on a "No Win No Fee basis"
A barristar's charge in Spain is certainly NOT a fee to employ the services of a high ranking lawyer to represent you all as you would expect to be the case in the UK. These "Spanish Court barristers "are employed to do a lot of running round making sure that all parties are fully informed about pending court dates and to collate all of the relevant case documnents and make them available to both the prosecution and defendants lawyers in addition to the Judge. A fee of €2,000 appears to be quite high if it's being charged in an individual basis! If the barrister is working on behalf of a group then I would have expected your lawyer to have negotiated a much lower fee?
I've been involved with a group of investors who are going through a similar action. We managed to negotiate the barristar's fee down to €1,000 per claimant based on a group action.
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This message was last edited by Tish on 6/29/2007.
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Question for Maria:
Can I ask you something.
I am in dispute with a lawyer who I engaged to handle a matter concerning my illegal employment in Spain.
We agreed he would take my case and he verbally assured me he would requre 500 euros in advance plus 15% of any successful claim but I received nothing in writing.
I gave him the 500 euros and he gave me a receipt on a blank sheet of paper which I queried but he saw nothing wrong in it.
We went to arbitration and now he wants another 1000 euros to continue with the case which I have refused and he will not pursue my case, or release information about it to me so I can pursue it alone.
Can I ask:
Are lawyers legally required to state fees in writing in advance ?
Ae lawyers required to give proper receipts on formal headed notepaper?
Can you give me an address of the Colegio de Abogados who I can take this up with.
I mention no names because that would be unprofessional.
Thanks
Andy H
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Hi Andy,
I suspect Maria is busy, she is about to give birth anytime now, that's if she has not already done so.
I Googled 'Colegio de Abogados' and various websites came up,depending on whichSpanish speaking country you reside. For Spain the different regions are listed so I copied and pasted the Malaga website address:-
http://www.icamalaga.es/
Addresses are available for the 'Colegio offices' in Marbella,Estepona etc., so I suppose the same information will be available for the part of Spain where you live.
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Thanks for this Sandra. I did email the Colegio but didnt even get a response. Now that Maria is back , can she make any suggestions.
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