How Much Are the Legal Fees?

Here comes the million-dollar question!

One of the first questions clients ask us at initial meetings is regarding the fees they must pay for their legal issues. There are mainly two types of legal fees: The Fixed Fee and the Hourly Fee.

The Fixed Fee

Some legal services can be provided to a client by paying what is called a ‘fixed fee’. This type of fee is a one-time fee that does not change no matter how many hours of work are allocated to the case when we start and finish the service.

In the Family Law realm, fixed fees are usually provided for:

Desk Order Divorce which is $2000 plus taxes and disbursements for divorces with no children and $2500 plus taxes and disbursements for simple divorces with children.

Fixed fees are also provided for drafting, negotiating, and finalizing Separation Agreements or Cohabitation Agreements. These agreements’ fees range between $2,500 to $8,000 plus taxes and disbursements, depending on complexity and the number of hours spent. 

The Hourly Fee

This type of fee is most commonly used in family law. The Hourly Fee suggests that you pay based on the number of hours the lawyer works on your file. Depending on the complexity of your case, you may start and finish your case with a few hundred dollars. Sometimes the fees are in the tens of thousands of dollars if your matter is complicated and involves all sorts of issues such as custody, child support, spousal support, and property division. If your case is taken all the way to trial, your legal fees can be more expensive.

• Leena R. Yousefi’s hourly fee is $500 per hour;
• Trudy Hopman’s hourly fee is $550 per hour (for family and estate litigation);
• Ari Wormeli’s hourly fee is $500 per hour;
• Susan Kim’s hourly fee is $500 per hour;
• Mandy Lai’s hourly fee is $475 per hour;
• Michelle Yau’s starts at $350 per hour, most cases are based on flat fees;
• Susan Justice’s hourly fee is $400 per hour;
• Abib Ngom’s hourly fee is $400 per hour;
• Jasmeet Mangat’s hourly fee is $400 per hour (for family litigation) $300 per hour (for estate litigation);
• Karen Tiwana‘s hourly fee is $375 per hour;
• Ramanjot Dahia’s hourly fee is $350 per hour (for family litigation) $300 per hour (for estate litigation);
• Alex Wang’s hourly fee is $300 per hour;
• Dana Roger’s hourly fee is $325 per hour (for family and estate litigation);
• Harry Saini’s hourly fee is $300 per hour;
• Kathryn Panton’s hourly fee is $325 per hour;
• Raman Sehmbi’s hourly fee is $275 per hour;
• Jenny Bain’s hourly fee is $275 per hour;
• Afsana Allidina’s hourly fee is $300 per hour;
• Ashley Ahluwalia’s hourly fee is $275 per hour;
• Justin Murphy’s hourly fee is $325 per hour;
• Ashley Sangha’s hourly fee is $250 per hour;
• Raumina Rezai’s hourly fee is $225 per hour

Please note that your lawyer has the obligation to spend days, months, or even years learning about your life. If your marriage or cohabitation lasted 15 years, we have to learn what happened during those years and get to know you more. We need to know your personality, all aspects of your finances, and your wishes.

We treat all of our clients like family and care about their cases. We provide the same level of service to all of our clients and expect respect and value for our services. Our focus is to effectively and efficiently deal with your case to keep your costs low and your results high.

Our Solution

A valid client concern is not knowing just how much they should pay because they themselves are not lawyers and do not know the legal complexity of their case. We can ease their concern by providing reasonable estimates for what can be expected. However, estimates are to be taken as informal estimates as so much can happen during the life of the case that at times it can be completely outside of our control to predict a true and final cost.

Litigation, specifically family litigation, is similar to one getting into an accident and having no insurance to pay for the damage. You have to pay the fees and have a resolution for a situation that could not have been foreseen. Understandably, many clients want to have some certainty regarding the fees they will be paying. For this reason, we have created an innovative option for our clients to allow them to choose what services they need and how much they want and are able to spend on their lawyer.

We offer both Fixed Fee and Hourly Fee options to our clients at all stages of litigation.

This means that before every stage of litigation, we provide the client with an option to choose a fixed fee for a certain procedure such as commencing their claim, applying for temporary relief, attending a trial, etc. We do this by calculating the average fee for similar cases and using the average for the fixed fee. The actual fees may end up being less or more, but the client taking the middle ground can be sure he or she does not have to pay more than the expected fixed fee.

We also provide the client with a choice to choose the hourly fee option. This option suggests that they will pay us as we go and as per our hours of work.