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Attorney Alan Abergel is licensed by both the Texas State Bar and the California State Bar. This webpage is intended for California potential clients and/or for California law potential matters. Click here for FAQs Concerning Legal Fees, for Texas potential clients and/or for California potential matters. The below is provided for general information only. Quotes for legal services are given on a case-by-case basis, after a potential client (“PC”) provides information to attorney Alan Abergel, about the PC’s specific legal service’s needs.
$400 for financial law matters, including without limitation, lending laws, consumer and commercial credit laws, financing laws, securities laws, commodities and derivatives laws, virtual currency laws, money transmission laws, credit repair laws, debt relief laws, and property tax. Also, for administrative enforcement defense services involving financial laws and regulations.
$350 for other non-financial regulation legal matters, such as general business, M&A, corporate law, real estate law, and zoning law. Also, for administrative enforcement defense services not involving financial laws and regulations.
My firm does not provide free legal advice. My firm mainly practices financial services laws and provides these services to financial services businesses and companies (lenders, securities issuers etc.), and not to consumers of financial services. In my experience, the question may be “quick,” but responses are lengthy and involve complex laws.
Determine if a potential client’s matter falls within my firm’s areas of practice.
Quote a fee (either a flat fee or an hourly retainer) for legal services and explanation of how to retain my firm to provide legal services.
Conduct a conflicts’ check
If during our initial conversation, you wish to ask a legal question, then I will quote either a flat fee or a quote for such consultation or relevant legal services. For example, concerning various types of financial regulation licensing, if you need to know whether or not your business model requires a specific license, then you will need to retain me to provide a business model legal opinion, which is provided by me, after I am retained, in writing and requires an hourly retainer. I do not provide business model legal opinions through a phone conversation. I only provide 1 or two hour paid consultations in case you are inquiring about what I deem to be simple matters that can be provided through a 1 or two hour paid phone consultation.
Q: Do you charge a flat fee, hourly out of a retainer, or both? A: Most of my firm’s services are provided on a flat fee basis. For example, my firm charges flat fees for the following legal services:
Simple California corporation, LLC, LP, PC, and other entity formation. (complex formations are charged hourly).
California standard conversion, merger, or exchange with or from a foreign or domestic entity between affiliated parties. (complex transactions are charged hourly).
California mortgage licenses applications and and other California DFPI licenses applications.
At least 90% of my clients pay flat fees for licensing services. In case the applicant company has complex structures, with holding companies or involvement with private equity funds, then the DFPI license application services may be provided only on an hourly basis out of a retainer. Any related enforcement actions defense representation are provided on an hourly basis out of retainer. Accordingly, if an enforcement action defense is anticipated before the license application is filed or occurs after the license application is filed, then the representation will be provided on an hourly basis out of a retainer.
One-month California mortgage lending or brokering compliance program registration applicants.
Combined licensing application and one-month compliance program for California Credit Service Organization registration applicants.
Most business contracts.
My firm charges hourly out of a retainer (deposit, out of which my firm’s hourly work is charged) for the following services:
DFPI, DOJ, FTC, CFPB, SEC, CFTC, FINRA investigations and enforcement actions’ defense.
Writ of mandate lawsuits.
Court and administrative litigation defense.
Business model legal opinions. (legal review and analysis to determine if your financial service business requires the applicable licensing and registrations).