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TERMS OF BUSINESS
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Our aim is to provide you with high quality legal services. To achieve this, it
is important that our clients and we have a common understanding of the basis on
which we provide our services. Such an understanding should facilitate our work
and make it more efficient. In the course of our representation we shall need your
full cooperation and that of others working for you. We will rely on you to furnish
or to cause others to furnish us with the information and assistance we consider
necessary to carry out the representation in a timely, effective and professional
manner.
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1.1 |
The services we shall provide you with in relation to a particular matter will be agreed
at the outset of the relevant matter and may be varied by agreement during the course of such matter.
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1.2 |
The services we provide are for the benefit of the party to whom these
terms are sent, and as specified in the accompanying letter. A person who is
not a party to it has, unless otherwise agreed in writing, no rights to enforce any term of this retainer.
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1.3 |
Where we are acting for clients jointly, we shall act upon the instructions
of either client unless agreed otherwise in advance. If we receive conflicting or
inconsistent instructions from the joint clients, we may, at our discretion,
refrain from taking any action until the conflict or inconsistency is resolved to our satisfaction.
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1.4 |
Our services shall include advice on tax related issues
to the extent this is requested at the outset, or agreed during the course of a matter, but not otherwise.
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matter of the partner(s) and/or associate(s) of the Firm acting on your behalf.
During the course of the matter, should a change to such individuals occur, we shall notify you of the same.
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We shall agree separately on the basis
of our charges for acting on your behalf in relation to
any particular matter. We shall also agree whether an advance payment
will be required. Our normal guideline hourly rates will apply in the absence of any other agreement. Our rates are reviewed and may be adjusted periodically. Additional charges, including expenses incurred, will also be billed.
We take your initial instruction to us as
your authority for us to incur, without further reference to you, reasonable expenses.
Where expenses will be substantial we shall generally ask for a deposit on account before we incur any such liability,
or arrange for the expenses to be paid by you directly.
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The Jordanian General Sales Tax Law imposes a 16% Sales Tax on legal services.
This Sales Tax will be set out in our invoices to you.
This Sales Tax is subject to increase and we shall
notify you of any changes should this occur.
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Unless we agree otherwise:
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5.1 |
We shall invoice you monthly. If you have any queries regarding any invoice,
please raise them with the partner responsible
for the matter as soon as possible. Objections must be raised within fifteen (15)
days from the invoice date.
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5.2 |
We require that our invoices be paid no later than thirty (30) days
after their respective date of issue. Where an element of an invoice is queried,
those sections of the invoice not subject to query are to be paid within thirty (30) days.
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5.3 |
Where any amount owed to us remains outstanding more than thirty
(30) days from the issue of the relevant invoice, we may:
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stop acting on your behalf; and
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retain documents and papers belonging to you, together with our own records;until your account is settled.
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5.4 |
Where we are holding money on your behalf, on account or otherwise,
we may use such funds toward payment or part payment of your outstanding
invoices, unless otherwise agreed. You will receive prompt notice of any such action.
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6. |
Conflict of Interest and Confidential Information
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6.1 |
We shall not represent another client on any matter on which we
are acting on your behalf unless we have your consent for doing so or where we are involved in
transactional work for you expressly on a non-exclusive basis. You agree, however, that we are
otherwise free to represent any other client either generally or on any specific matter in which
you may have an interest,
even if there is, or may be, a conflict between your interests and
those of the other client.
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6.2 |
The interests of another client of the Firm and your own may
conflict in any number of circumstances. The effect of 6.1 is that we
may act for another client on any issue or matter in which you might have an
interest including, without limitation, (a) agreement to buy, sell or lease: mergers;
joint ventures; acquisitions; financing; contract for services; insolvency, the protection
of rights; representations to regulatory authorities; and (b) the resolution of
any disputes,
whether in any judicial forum, arbitration or otherwise. Except where we have
expressly
agreed with you otherwise,
we may also act generally for another client who may be a market competitor of yours.
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6.3 |
We owe a duty of confidentially to all our clients
and accordingly, subject to any overriding legal obligation on you or us:
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we shall keep all documents and
information that we receive by virtue of acting for you, confidential. In particular, we
will not disclose any such information to any other client without your agreement (or in circumstances where we
are representing you and another client jointly, with the agreement of the joint clients); and
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you agree that we are in no way obliged to disclose to you or use, for
your purposes, any documents or information in respect of
which we owe a duty of confidentiality to another client (or any other person).
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6.4 |
You agree that no documents held by this Firm, regardless
of relevance, will prevent us from acting for another client
on that matter without further consent from you. However,
as required, we shall put in place such arrangements as we consider appropriate in the circumstances to
ensure that the confidentiality of your documents and/or information is maintained.
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Instructing Other Experts and Lawyers in Other Jurisdictions
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It may be necessary during the course of a matter to instruct one
or more experts outside the Firm, such as accountants, consultants
or specialist or foreign counsel. We shall discuss this with you at the
appropriate time should this arise, so as to agree to retaining a suitable
entity and the costs likely to be involved.
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8.1 |
Copyright: Original material which we generate for our clients’
purposes are protected by copyright, which belongs to Ali Sharif Zu’bi.
The fee you pay for our work entitles you to make use of those documents
for the purposes for which they are provided. You do not obtain ownership of
the copyright in our work product unless we specifically agree to this in writing.
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8.2 |
Retention: We shall retain files relating to a matter on which we represented you for ten (10)
years after the matter’s completion.
Unless agreed otherwise we shall then dispose of such files without further reference to you.
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Resolving Problems and Disputes |
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9.1 |
In the event of a disagreement or complaint that you might
have regarding our services, please contact the partner in
charge of your account and provide an explanation of the disagreement
or complaint in writing. If you do not receive a reply from us
within seven (7) days, kindly contact our Managing Partner, Khaled Asfour,
directly.
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9.2 |
Should an amicable solution not be reached,
the dispute will be referred to arbitration in accordance
with the current Jordanian Arbitration Law.
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