Sentences with phrase «standard counseling fee»

Credit counseling services are required to provide the counseling free of charge to debtors who can not afford to pay the standard counseling fee.

Not exact matches

, author Tim Bratton notes that despite all of the discussion about alternative fee arrangements, the focus of in - house counsel continues to be on billable hours as a standard for measuring «value,» even while all involved seem to concede that time does not actually equate to value.

By the time the lawyer later discovered the issue, the client had been billed twice the standard fee that most counsel generally charge for an initial meeting.

The motions judge held the legal fees charged were «disproportionate» to the size of the receivership, that the usual or standard rates were too high, and that excessive work was done by senior counsel on routine matters.

Our lawyers have counseled boards of directors and trustees on fund governance, the role of independent directors, their evaluation of fund service provider contracts and fees, their evaluation of fund and service provider compliance programs, affiliation and conflict of interest issues, current regulatory issues and industry best practices, standards of conduct and of judicial review of board action and compliance with all applicable disclosure requirements.

«An option for corporate enterprises, who traditionally engage their external counsel on a standard fee - paying retainer to hedge their risk.

Similarly, under a statute which allowed for bylaws concerning «all or part of the costs of the disciplinary proceeding,» and although regulations provided for a licensee to pay «all or part of the costs of the disciplinary hearing, including (i) per day fees for members of the Discipline Committee, (ii) counsel fees, (iii) reporter fees, (iv) facility charges, and other charges associated with the hearing», a court found such award to be subject to the same reasonableness standard of review as is the rest of the substantive disciplinary decision.