External legal retainer; sample agreement.

“x x x.

Thank you for communicating the desire of your company to retain our legal services.
We are glad to extend our external legal Retainership for the legal needs of your Company, the xxx Corp.
Stated below are the terms and conditions, for your conforme hereunder:

1. Purpose/Coverage: Legal advice/consultations thru personal meetings, telephone, SMS, email, fax or postal
mail.

Contracts for review or for draw up by the law office shall be charged at a discounted fee of fifty per cent (50%)
from the normal charges thereof, which depend on the time invested therein by the handling lawyer.

Other operations advise shall also be charged at a 50% discount, compared to the normal charges therefor.

2. Monthly Retainer Fee and Mode of Payment: xxx Thousand Pesos (Pxxx/month, to be automatically
deposited to our “xxx Bank Account, xxx Branch, xxx City, Current Account Name: xxx, Current Account No. xxx
”, not later than every 15th day of every month, without need of notice/demand therefor.

There shall also be added an additional one-month retainer fee every December of each year that the herein
Legal Retainership Agreement is effective.

3. Period and Renewability: This Legal Retainership Agreement SHALL CONTINUE TO BE IN EFFECT, WITHOUT
NEED OF YEARLY RENEWAL, UNLESS TERMINATED IN WRITING, by either party, within thirty (30) days before the
intended termination date.

4. Meetings Outside the Law Office – A lawyer of the law office who attends a legal meeting outside Las Pinas
City and within the cities of Makati, Manila, Pasay, Paranaque or Muntinlupa shall be entitled to an appearance fee
of xxxTHOUSAND PESOS (Pxxx) per such outside meeting in the said specified cities.

Outside the abovementioned five (5) cities but within Metro Manila, the appearance fee shall be Pxxx.00 per such
meeting.

5. Deposit for Actual Costs. – The client shall maintain a deposit with the law office in the amount of xxx
Thousand Pesos (Pxxx) to cover all actual costs of the law office for the client, e.g., paralegal staff time,
transportation, meals for field work required by the client, postage, xerox/reproduction, computer printing, fax,
long distance calls, mobile phone calls, and other actual out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the law office as it
serves the legal needs of the client.

The said deposit shall be liquidated and reported to the client in writing by the law office for replenishment
purposes from time to time when the said deposit is about 50% depleted.

6. Special Legal Matters or Court Cases. – Specific court cases or special legal missions or assignments in behalf of
the client shall be covered by separate special legal retainership agreements, the terms and conditions of which
shall be subject to negotiation and agreement by the parties.

Thank you.
 (Retainer Contract between Lawyer and Client Long Form)
RETAINER CONTRACT
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
This CONTRACT made and executed by and between:
__Client__, a domestic corporation duly organized and existing under and by
virtue of the laws of the Republic of the Philippines, with principal office at
_____________, Philippines and represented in this act by its __Position__,
__Name of Officer__, (hereinafter referred to as the "CLIENT");
- and -
__Law Firm__, a law firm organized under and by virtue of the
laws of the Republic of the Philippines as a general professional partnership,
with principal office at _____________, Philippines, and represented in this
act by its Managing Partner, __Name of Managing Partner__, (hereinafter
referred to as the "LAW FIRM"

WITNESSETH: That -
WHEREAS, the LAW FIRM has offered its professional legal services to the
CLIENT and CLIENT agrees to retain the professional legal services of the
LAW FIRM under a retainership basis, subject to the terms and conditions
hereinafter stipulated:
NOW THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the mutual
covenants and agreements herein agreed upon, the CLIENT and the LAW
FIRM, by these presents, have entered, as they hereby enter, into a
contract of services whereby the LAW FIRM shall render legal services to the
CLIENT, under the following terms and conditions:
1. The term or duration of this contract shall be for one (1) year effective
upon signing of this agreement and shall automatically renewed on a year to
year basis unless either party pre-terminates the same upon serving a thirty
(30) day-prior written notice to the other party, without need of cause;
2. The LAW FIRM, while in the performance of its duties, shall be entitled to
a fixed monthly retainer fee of PESOS: __________________________
(P_________);
3. The LAW FIRM shall make itself available for ready consultation by the
CLIENT or its duly authorized officers in all matters or business requiring
legal advice and opinion affecting the said corporation in general. Written
opinions rendered by the LAW FIRM on matters affecting the
business and operations of the corporation shall be subject to confirmations;
4. The LAW FIRM shall render documentation and notarial services to the
CLIENT as part of this retainership. Client documents shall be notarized
free of charge while documents requiring the participation and signature of a
party other than the Client shall be subject to fees or charge at the following
rates:
(Notarial Rates)
5. In case of extra-judicial foreclosure of mortgage endorsed to the LAW
FIRM by the CLIENT, the attorney's fees shall be at the rates provided as
follows:
(Rates of Legal Fees on Foreclosure)
6. In collection cases other than extra-judicial foreclosure of mortgage, the
attorney's fees shall be at the rates provided as follows:
(Rates of Legal Fees for Collection Cases)
7. The LAW FIRM shall handle other cases as referred to it by the CLIENT for
a fee that shall be determined by mutual agreement of the law firm and the
CLIENT, on a case to case basis, such as, but not limited to, all suits or
cases for or against the CLIENT, including officers and employees of the
CLIENT sued in their official capacity;
8. The LAW FIRM shall not compromise or settle judicially or extra-judicially
any account, foreclosure proceeding or suit wherein the CLIENT is a party,
without the written consent and conformity of the CLIENT or his duly
authorizedofficer;
9. Routinary expenses for mailing of demand letters, pleadings to
court and copies thereof to adverse parties, costsof photocopy of evidentiary
documents, payment of stenographic notes, costs of publications of notices,
as well as filing fees and other legal expenses in court and other appropriate
government offices shall be for the account of the CLIENT;
10. The LAW FIRM shall, whenever requested by the CLIENT take immediate
measures to investigate the facts and ascertain the legal position of the
CLIENT concerning any accidents, claim or liability, and shall on such cases
do what may be required for the protection of the CLIENT. The LAW FIRM
may represent the CLIENT in all suits and proceedings pending or which may
be pending in Bacolod City or its environs wherein the CLIENT is a party, or
its rights or interest are involve, at the direction of the CLIENT;
11. The LAW FIRM shall keep in its office a docket of record in which it shall
cause to be recorded all proceedings connected with nay action which the
CLIENT is interested and shall keep such other records necessary to
preserve a complete history of the business of the CLIENT entrusted to its
charge. Said docket and records shall be subject to the
inspection and control of the CLIENT or his representative;
12. The LAW FIRM shall submit to the CLIENT at least once every quarter or
as often as required, written reports on all pending matters handled by the
LAW FIRM for the CLIENT;
13. The LAW FIRM, in addition to the herein enumerated services, shall
well and faithfully serve the CLIENT and shall at all times devote its whole
time and attention to the assignments and tasks given and/or entrusted to it
by the CLIENT and shall do and perform all such services, acts and things
connected therewith as the CLIENT shall from time to time direct; nor shall
the LAW FIRM at any time get itself in a situation where a conflict of interest
may arise between those of the CLIENT and the LAW FIRM and/or its
CLIENTS;
14. The LAW FIRM shall not, either during the term of this contract or any
time thereafter, use or disclose to any person, office, corporation or entity
any confidential information concerning the affairs of the CLIENT which he
nay have acquired in the course of or as incident to this contract for its own
benefit, or to the detriment or probable detriment of the CLIENT;
15. It is understood and agreed that nothing in this contract shall be
construed as establishing the relationship of employer-employee between
the CLIENT and the LAW FIRM, including its personnel;
16. Any violation of the terms and conditions of this contract by the LAW
FIRM shall give the CLIENT the option to rescind or cancel immediately the
contract without necessity of judicial proceedings;
17. The CLIENT reserves the right to terminate this Agreement without
need of cause or reason upon thirty-day written notice to the LAW FIRM.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have signed this instrument this
_____________ at _____________, Philippines.
CLIENT LAW FIRM

By: _____________By: Managing Partner

SIGNED IN THE PRESENCE OF