Fee Agreement. You must indicate your agreement at the bottom of this form to proceed.
LawyerOwl.com is risk-free to you. If your legal matter is not successful, you do not have to pay LawyerOwl.com anything.
What does "risk free" mean?
Risk-free means that as a client, you pay nothing to LawyerOwl.com out-of-pocket: No subscription fees, no monthly or annual fees, no membership fees - ever. You pay nothing now to submit your description of why you are looking for a lawyer, or to get your Personalized List of matched lawyers, or to send Invitations to the lawyers you choose to let them know you are interested in talking to them about your problem or legal issue. You can submit as many different descriptions of as many problems or legal issues that you have, and receive as many Personalized Lists as you like, and you can send Invitations to as many lawyers as you are interested in.
The way this works is that LawyerOwl.com gets paid by you ONLY IF you actually get money in a settlement, or you win a money judgment from a court or an award in an arbitration; if you complete a sale of your property or business; if you are able to raise money for your business; if you receive money as a result of your reporting a fraud at your company; or some other way. In other words, only if you and your lawyer are successful.
Even then, you pay LawyerOwl.com ONLY AFTER you actually collect your money or your lawyer actually collects your money for you.
If you do not collect any money, or you lose your lawsuit or arbitration, or your transaction does not work out, you do not have to pay LawyerOwl.com anything. At LawyerOwl.com, you pay us only if you get paid yourself.
Before you can enjoy the benefits of this risk-free service, it is important that you read and agree to the following:
FEE AGREEMENT BETWEEN CLIENT AND LawyerOwl.com
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Client "Matter". As used in this Fee Agreement, the "Client Matter" or "legal Matter" shall mean the description of why I (the Client or User of LawyerOwl.com) am looking to hire a lawyer, and which I am submitting to LawyerOwl.com concurrently with this Fee Agreement, for LawyerOwl.com to use as a reference to generate a personalized list for me of matched lawyers through LawyerOwl.com's automated Internet system and related services offered by LawyerOwl.com. My description of why I am looking to hire a lawyer is hereby incorporated in, and shall be deemed a part of, this Fee Agreement.
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"Lawyer". As used in this Fee Agreement, "Lawyer" shall mean any lawyer registered on LawyerOwl.com who appears on one or more of the personalized lists generated for me or my company through LawyerOwl.com's automated Internet system.
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"LawyerOwl" or "LawyerOwl.com". As used in this Fee Agreement, "LawyerOwl" or "LawyerOwl.com" shall mean both LawyerOwl LLC and its wholly-owned website www.LawyerOwl.com.
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"Invitation". As used in this Fee Agreement, "Invitation" shall mean the description of my legal Matter along with a copy of this Fee Agreement, that I send through LawyerOwl.com to individual Lawyers who I personally select, as my request that those particular Lawyers contact me to discuss my legal Matter.
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Payment Amount. I hereby agree that if I hire a Lawyer who appears on the personalized list generated for me by LawyerOwl.com to be my Lawyer in connection with my legal Matter, LawyerOwl.com is entitled to receive, and I shall pay to LawyerOwl.com, three percent (3%) of the gross amount of any payments, settlements, court judgments, arbitration awards, transaction proceeds, sales proceeds, investment funds or capital raised, "whistleblower" rewards or payments, or any other moneys that I receive (the "Matter Proceeds"), in connection with, as a result of, related to, or arising from my legal Matter (the "Payment").
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Time to Make Payment. I hereby agree that I shall make the full Payment to LawyerOwl.com within three (3) business days of the date on which I, or my Lawyer on my behalf, receives any Matter Proceeds.
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Instructions to My Lawyer. I hereby agree that this Fee Agreement is and shall be deemed to be my binding instruction and authorization to the Lawyer who I hire in this legal Matter, and any co-counsel, or subsequent or successor lawyer who I may hire later to take over in this legal Matter from my original Lawyer (whether engaged through the use of LawyerOwl.com's services or otherwise) (a "Replacement Lawyer"), to do the following without further notice to me:
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Inform LawyerOwl.com that he or she has been hired by me to be my Lawyer in connection with my legal Matter, within three (3) business days of my hiring him or her; and to immediately provide LawyerOwl.com with the name and telephone number, and e-mail address if known, of any Replacement Lawyer who I may hire later;
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Provide LawyerOwl.com with semi-annual updates as to the status of my legal Matter, or at such other shorter intervals as may be requested by LawyerOwl.com;
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Immediately inform LawyerOwl.com of the total gross amount of any Matter Proceeds that I receive or become entitled to receive, and the date on which such Matter Proceeds are received or are expected to be received by me or by my Lawyer acting on my behalf; and
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To send the full Payment to LawyerOwl.com before distributing, releasing, or paying any of the Matter Proceeds to me or to anyone else other than LawyerOwl.com.
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Implementation. I understand and hereby agree that LawyerOwl.com shall be entitled to send a copy of this Fee Agreement to every Lawyer on my personalized list whom I elect to send an Invitation to, and any Replacement Lawyer I may hire later. This Paragraph is and shall be deemed to be my binding instruction and authorization to the Lawyer I hire in this legal Matter, and any Replacement Lawyer, to take any and all steps necessary to give full implementation and effect to the terms of this Fee Agreement.
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Changes. I understand and hereby agree that this Fee Agreement, and the instructions and authorizations herein, may not be rescinded, changed, amended, modified, or withdrawn, except by a written agreement signed by both me and by LawyerOwl.com in writing (i.e., not signed by electronic signature or other electronic means).
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Preservation of Privileges and Independence. Nothing herein shall be construed as waiving the attorney-client privilege between me and the Lawyer I hire, or as requiring the production of attorney-client privileged information, or as requiring the production of information subject to attorney work-product protections, or in such a way as to compromise my Lawyer's independence in providing legal advice and services to me.
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Choice of Law, Jurisdiction, Venue. I hereby agree that this Fee Agreement shall be interpreted in accordance with the substantive and procedural laws of the State of New York without regard to conflict of law provisions. I also hereby agree that the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and the New York State Courts located in the borough of Manhattan, shall have personal jurisdiction over me in any dispute or litigation concerning, related to, or arising from this Fee Agreement, that I hereby waive any objections as to venue or forum non conveniens, and that any such litigation between me and LawyerOwl.com shall be conducted only in those courts, unless one of those courts determines that such forum or venue is otherwise not permissible under law.
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Severability. I hereby agree that in the event that any term, provision, or paragraph of this Fee Agreement is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be void under law or otherwise unenforceable, the remainder of this Fee Agreement shall remain in full force and effect, and shall be construed in such a manner as to most closely give effect to its original meaning, as though the void or unenforceable term, provision, or paragraph never existed.
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