Prices of legal services
Attorney’s fees are governed by the Regulation of the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic on fees and reimbursement of attorneys for rendering legal services No. 655/2004 Coll.
An attorney’s fee is the most often determined on the basis of agreement between an attorney and his/her client as a contractual fee. If they fail to come to an agreement, provisions of the Regulation on tariff fee will be used to determine the attorney’s fee.
The contractual fee may be determined as follows:
a) Hourly fee – this type of fee may be agreed by determining number of hours required for rendering the legal service,
b) Flat fee – it may be agreed as a fee for full settlement of a case or set of cases, or for rendering of legal services in a certain period of time, or for indefinite time,
c) Share fee – it may be agree in a form of a monetary share in the value of the case, which is the subject of proceedings at court or other body. The maximum amount of share fee must not exceed 20% of the value of the case,
d) Tariff fee – agreed otherwise than by a base rate of the tariff fee.
Methods of contractual fee determination can be combined.
The base rate of tariff fee is determined pursuant to the tariff value of the case or type of case, and according to the number of acts of the legal service, which the attorney has executed in the case.
Along with the entitlement to the fee, the attorney is entitled to the reimbursement of cash expenses efficiently and provably spent in connection with the provision of legal services. It concerns mainly court and other fees, travelling and telecommunication expenses and expenses for expert opinions, translations and copies. The attorney is entitled to the compensation for loss of time, for instance, for the time spent travelling to place of legal service act and back.
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