What is the name of your state? Florida
We signed an agreement with our lawyer when we retained him. The agreement is very vague only giving hourly rates and what the in-house types of services that we will be billed for, i.e., faxes, copies, long distance phone calls, etc.
Every time we receive an invoice from our lawyer, there is a charge from him to dictate the letter and a charge from his secretary to type the letter. It amounts to $36.00 total. The letter just states enclosed is your statement to date. We are being billed this each time a statement arrives.
I have always requested an itemized statement and did receive them free of charge when they forgot to do so. On one occassion I questioned one of the charges after receiving the itemized statement. I was then billed for receiving the itemized statement, as well as for the nasty letter from the lawyer telling me take my business elsewhere if I didn't like his services, and for him reading my apology letter to him.
Isn't this against ethics? I contacted the Florida Bar Association but they refuse to give any advice. I don't understand how he can get away with billing us $36.00 to send us his invoice and for charging to give me an itemized statement.
We signed an agreement with our lawyer when we retained him. The agreement is very vague only giving hourly rates and what the in-house types of services that we will be billed for, i.e., faxes, copies, long distance phone calls, etc.
Every time we receive an invoice from our lawyer, there is a charge from him to dictate the letter and a charge from his secretary to type the letter. It amounts to $36.00 total. The letter just states enclosed is your statement to date. We are being billed this each time a statement arrives.
I have always requested an itemized statement and did receive them free of charge when they forgot to do so. On one occassion I questioned one of the charges after receiving the itemized statement. I was then billed for receiving the itemized statement, as well as for the nasty letter from the lawyer telling me take my business elsewhere if I didn't like his services, and for him reading my apology letter to him.
Isn't this against ethics? I contacted the Florida Bar Association but they refuse to give any advice. I don't understand how he can get away with billing us $36.00 to send us his invoice and for charging to give me an itemized statement.
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