Information for Our Clients

Your retaining Harris & Moure to provide you legal services constitutes your acceptance of the terms set forth below.

Case Staffing

We assign lawyers and other personnel on the basis of experience, expertise, and the nature and scope of the issues. This provides you with an appropriate level of expertise while minimizing costs.

Fees

A statement of our rates is available at any time upon request.

Costs and Expenses

Harris & Moure, pllc, may incur costs and expenses on your behalf that we will charge to you. Examples of such expenses may include court filing fees, translator fees, foreign attorney fees, deposition and transcript fees, consulting or expert witness fees and expenses, long distance telephone charges, photocopying, computerized legal research, travel expenses, messenger services, and other similar costs. Though out-of-pocket expenses are your responsibility and we assume no liability for payment, we may act on your behalf by advancing payment to third parties if your account is current. We will consult with you before making commitments for substantial expenses.

Our Privacy Policy

Attorneys are required by their ethical rules to maintain client confidences. We take this and all of our ethical obligations very seriously.

Personal Guarantee

All fees and costs incurred on behalf of clients that are entities, are personally guaranteed by the owners of the entity.

Delinquent Accounts

We add a 1% per month late payment charge to accounts not paid within thirty days of invoicing. If we are required to bring suit to collect our fees and/or costs from you, the prevailing party in that suit will be entitled to its reasonable attorneys' fees and costs.

Termination of Services

We reserve the right to cease performing legal services and to terminate our representation for any reason consistent with the ethical rules, including for nonpayment of legal fees or expenses incurred on your behalf. We may obtain a lien on any of your documents in our possession and on the proceeds of any judgment or settlement entered in your favor to assure we receive payment in full.

Dispute Resolution

Our relationship and any issues that arise from that relationship will be governed by Washington State law and any disputes will be resolved by arbitration in Seattle before an agreed upon arbitrator pursuant to the rules of the American Arbitration Association.

File Retention Policy

When we complete our work on your matter, we will close our file and place it in storage. We will then destroy the files when allowed to do so, unless you gave us other disposition instructions at the time of our opening the matter.

Important Information

The information on this site is not meant to be legal advice about a specific legal problem, nor does it create an attorney-client relationship. Due to the importance of the specific facts of every matter, the generalizations we make may not necessarily be applicable to any particular case. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Changes in the law could at any time make parts of this web site obsolete.

Our attorneys are admitted to practice only in those jurisdictions set forth in their biographies.

Please feel free to contact us at any time.