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the firm’s a general
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practice firm that concentrates
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primarily
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in all types of real estate matters so
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real estate transactional matters
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real estate litigation matters we also
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do
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a lot of commercial civil litigation for
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general
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business clients we do all types of
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corporate matters we do property tax
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appeal work
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so we do consider ourselves somewhat a
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general practice firm
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since we are a smaller firm at least in
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our market meaning a firm that has
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anywhere from 15 to 20 or 25 lawyers at
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a given time
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we have the flexibility of charging
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fees on a wide variety of different
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levels so
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we can charge fees at an hourly rate
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which
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a lot of clients are familiar with we
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can charge fees
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as a success fee or a contingency fee
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and then at times we also do have what i
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would call a hybrid fee arrangement for
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clients
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where we will agree to reduce
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our hourly rate and we will also
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take a successful or contingency fee
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if and when we win the case and we are
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successful
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we will then give the client a credit
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for anything that they had previously
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paid
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against that hourly time albeit at a
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reduced rate
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so that we’re not working on a total
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success fee basis
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and the client doesn’t have to pay our
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rack rate of
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an hourly fee