Attorney Agreement
BUSINESS OWNER : …… Website
ADDRESS :
ATTORNEY :
ADDRESS :
An Attorney’s Fee Agreement has been made between the parties whose names, surnames (or titles) and addresses suitable for notification are specified above. In this agreement, the business owner is referred to as (Client) and the assignee is referred to as (Attorney).
Article 1- The work undertaken by (Attorney):
a) The attorney shall follow the enforcement proceedings filed or to be filed against the site, which is the client, and the lawsuits and enforcement proceedings filed or to be filed by the client during the contract.
b) The client may request written or verbal legal opinion from the attorney during the contract.
c) The attorney shall participate in the ordinary or extraordinary general assemblies of the website and give opinions on legal issues.
d) The attorney will follow up the lawsuits as of the date of the power of attorney …/…/…..
e) The Attorney shall submit a quarterly activity report to the website and shall be able to examine the case files at any time with a Lawyer to be assigned by him/her and request the information and documents he/she deems necessary.
f) The lawyer shall personally follow up the works assigned to him/her. However, with the permission of the cooperative and temporarily, he/she may assign the litigation and execution proceedings to a lawyer other than himself/herself. If a fee arises from this assignment, the lawyer will be responsible.
Article 2-The fee in Article 8 shall be paid to the lawyer for the work subject to the contract. If any of the payments required to be made within certain periods are not made, the entire fee becomes due and payable.
Article 3- The lawyer shall follow the work undertaken by the lawyer to the end in accordance with the provisions of the law and this contract. In the event that the lawyer is authorized to retain others by the power of attorney granted, he/she may follow up the work undertaken by him/her together with other lawyers he/she deems appropriate, or he/she may leave the follow-up completely to them. The client may also give power of attorney to other attorneys, provided that he obtains the written authorization of the attorney.
Article 4 – All expenses such as taxes, duties and fees required for the performance of the work belong to the client and must be paid to the lawyer or the authority by the client at the first request of the lawyer. All expenses to be incurred for the assigned work belong to the client.
In order to ensure that the above-mentioned expenses can be incurred by the lawyer, the client is obliged to give the advance to cover the expenses on time. The client shall provide the lawyer with the necessary advance for this work in advance.
For business travel and hearings, the client shall pay for transportation expenses such as plane, bus, automobile, train and ferry tickets and reasonable accommodation fees separately from the fee.
Hearings before higher courts such as the Court of Cassation, the Council of State, the Regional Court of Appeal and the Regional Administrative Court shall be subject to a separate fee.
Article 5- In the event that the lawyer ceases to pursue the work undertaken without a justifiable reason and resigns from the attorneyship without a justifiable reason, he/she cannot claim any fee. He shall be obliged to return the fee received in advance and the advance on expenses, if any, and the documents given by the client.
Failure of the client to give power of attorney after the conclusion of this contract, to take back the file, to encourage other lawyers without the written permission of the lawyer or to give the work to another lawyer, not to pay the requested expenses, not to provide the information, documents and evidence necessary for the claim or defense, to change the address but not to notify the new address in writing and to make the follow-up of the work impossible in this way,
In cases where the lawyer prevents the follow-up and finalization of the work by any means whatsoever, such as partially or completely giving up the pursuit of the case or receivable without the consent of the lawyer, settling with the other party or releasing the other party, or dismissing the lawyer without just cause, the lawyer may break the contract. In this case, the entire fee specified in the contract must be paid immediately and in one lump sum at the first request of the lawyer.
Article 6 – The address written above is the notification address of the client. The client accepts that all notices and notifications to be made by the lawyer to this address are made to him/her.
If the client changes his/her address, he/she is obliged to notify the lawyer of the new address immediately in writing.
Article 7- In cases where there is no clarity in this contract, the provisions of the Attorneyship Law No. 1136 shall apply.
Article 8- Due to the work subject to this contract, the lawyer shall be paid ….. TL + VAT attorney fee will be paid. The lawyer will issue a self-employment receipt every month for the fee.
Article 9- The duration of the contract is …. months and can be extended. However, during the contract period, the site may terminate the contract at any time, provided that the lawyer is notified …. (……) days in advance. The lawyer can also terminate the contract at any time with …. (…) months prior notice. However, the Lawyer is responsible for following up the litigation and execution works until the works are taken over by the authorities, and this period cannot exceed …. months in any way. After the signing of the contract, the wage increases made to the permanent lawyers are reflected to the Lawyer.
Article 10- Taxes, duties, fees and funds arising from the signing of the Agreement belong to the Attorney.
This contract will start with the power of attorney given on …/…./….. It has been issued in two copies. It has been prepared, read and signed voluntarily by the parties. …/…./….
LAWYER
Stamp – Signature
……. WEBSITE REPRESENTATIVE
Stamp – Signature
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