A legal services agreement is a type of service agreement in which the service provider provides legal services to the service user, such as litigation, legal advice, representing clients outside of litigation, and other legal services. The service user must pay the service fee to the provider for the legal services. Signing a legal services agreement is one of the most important steps to binding legal rights and responsibilities between the parties. In addition, one of the factors that make a law firms more professional and make the negotiations between them and clients smoother is having a legal services agreement template that is suitable for the characteristics of each law firm and easy to adapt to the needs of each client and different types of legal services. A legal services agreement template is an important tool that helps ensure legal compliance and avoid risks in the process of providing services between parties. In this article, Phuoc and Partners will introduce common legal services agreement templates, provide basic information about the content and necessary factors of a professional legal services contract to help readers understand the importance of legal services agreement and use them appropriately.
LEGAL SERVICE AGREEMENT
(No.:[…])
– Pursuant to the Civil Code 2015 No. 91/2015/QH13 of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
– Pursuant to […];
– Pursuant to […];
– Pursuant to the actual needs of the service lessee and the law firm […] ‘s ability to provide legal services
Today, […[] at […]
We are:
The using service party:
Legal/Authorised Representative: […]
Under Power of Attorney No. (if any): […]
Title: […]
Registered Address: […]
Mobile phone: […]
Hereinafter referred to as Party A
The providing service party:
Legal/Authorised Representative: […]
Under Power of Attorney No. (if any): […]
Title: […]
Registered Address: […]
Mobile phone: […]
Bank account: […]
At: […]
Hereinafter referred to as Party B
Considering that after discussing and, the two parties agree to sign a Legal Service Agreement with the following terms:
Article 1. Statement of fact and legal services
1.1. Statement of fact: […]
1.2. The legal services to be provided: […]
Article 2. Service fee, other expenses and payment method
2.1. Service fee:
Services provided in Article 1.2 shall be charged as follows:
- Hourly charge: Hourly service fee of Attorney […] is […]/hour;
(or)
- The fixed service fee for this service is: […]
2.2. Other expenses:
In the process of performing the service in this Legal Service Agreement, there will be out-of-pocket costs such as travel, accommodation, back up, fees, charges, value-added tax and other cost.
For these costs, the party […] is responsible for paying.
2.3. Method and time limit for payment of service fee and expenses:
- Payment method: Party A pays Party B through the bank account specified on page 1 of this Agreement.
- Payment term: As soon as the two parties agree to sign this Legal Service Agreement, Party A pays Party B an advance equivalent to […] of the service fee, […] the remaining service fee will be paid by Party A to Party B when the service is completed.
- Party A’s work is considered completed in one of the following cases, whichever comes first: […]
Article 3. Rights and obligations of Party A
3.1. Party A’s rights:
- Request Party B to perform the agreed legal services;
- Unilaterally terminate the Legal Service Agreement and request Party B to compensate for the actual damage if Party B seriously violates the agreed obligations..
3.2. Party A’s obligations:
- Ensure that the information and documents provided by Party A to Party B are true;
- Pay service fees and expenses to Party B as agreed in Article 2 of this Legal Service Agreement.
- Timely provide the necessary information, documents and means for Party B to perform the work.
- Pay service fees and expenses as agreed in Article 2 of this Legal Service Agreement and compensate for actual damage caused to Party B if Party A unilaterally terminates the contract illegally.
Article 4. Rights and obligations of Party B
4.1. Party B’s rights:
- Request Party A to pay service fees and expenses as agreed.
- Request Party A to provide the necessary information, documents, evidences and means to perform the work.
- Request Party A to pay service fees, expenses and compensate for actual damage that occurs to Party B if Party A unilaterally terminates the contract illegally.
4.2. Party B’s obligations:
- Do not assign other organisations or individuals to perform the work without the written consent of Party A.
[…]
- Keep confidential information, documents, evidences or events related to Party A that Party B knows in the process of performing work. Such information, documents, evidences and events may only be disclosed with written consent, fax or email from valid fax numbers and email addresses of Party A.
Article 5. Validity term
- The aagreement takes effect when the two parties agree to sign this Legal Service Agreement and party B has received […]% of the advance service fee from party A.
- The Legal Service Agreement will continue to be in full force and effect until one of the following events occurs, whichever is earlier: (a) Party B completes the service requested by Party A, or (b) ) terminated by Party A and Party B. The Term may be extended for another period of time by agreement between the Parties.
Article 6. General terms and conditions
- Party B provides the legal services not only according to the provisions stated in this Legal Service Contract but also according to the [.General Policy of Law Firm..] of Party B which is attached, and is considered an integral part of this Legal Service Agreement and is in effect at the same time as the Legal Services Agreement.
- In the event of any discrepancy between any provision of this Legal Service Agreement and the similar term(s) in [General Policy of Law Firm] of Party B, the respective terms of the Legal Service Agreement shall prevail.
Article 7. Other terms
- The two parties commit to strictly implement the Legal Service Agreement, the terms not in the agreement are implemented in accordance with the laws referred to in this Legal Service Agreement and the guiding documents of those laws.
- If any provision of this Legal Services Agreement is unenforceable in whole or in part for any reason, the remainder of the Legal Services Agreement shall be severable and remain the same
- This Legal Services Agreement may be modified by agreement of the parties in writing signed by the parties or orally to the extent that the parties perform such agreement.
- If there is a dispute about the Legal Service Agreement, the parties will negotiate to reach an agreement. If no agreement is reached, one of the parties has the right to initiate a lawsuit in accordance with the law.
- The Legal Service Agreement is made in 04 copies, the contents and legal validity are the same, each party keeps 02 copies.
| Party A
(Title)
(sign and write full name, seal) |
Party B
(Title)
(sign and write full name, seal) |
Note: The above legal service agreement template is for reference only, law-practicing organisations need to carefully study to complete the legal service agreement template to suit the characteristics of them
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