A client account from which the attorney takes money for fees; clients should ask how money is taken and how it's set up.
“in Colorado you should know exactly at what point your attorney is taking money from the trust account where you put money in to cover the cost of your case there should be a retainer agreement that you signed and it should list out very specifically at what stage in the case the attorney is allowed to withdraw that money now for those of you who aren't aware what happened in Colorado when you are working with a flat fee case which is what most criminal defense attorneys do is we as the criminal defense attorney take your money that you pay it and put it in a trust account and then we bill from that trust account so when the money is in the trust account it is your money still belongs to you”
“I'm going to write Law Group what we do is we do it in stages so depending on the stage of the case we're allowed to take a certain percentage of the retainer agreement we are very clear with our clients that if we don't do a certain stage of the case and that stage doesn't go we get that money back to the client because any money sitting in the trust account still belongs to you the client”
“when you pay an attorney let's say you have a DUI case and you pay let's say five thousand dollars per in the UI you pay that five thousand dollars it's supposed to be put directly into a trust account let's say the next day you say nope I don't like this attorney I'm going with someone else you better be getting a significant portion of that money back because they do not earn the money in full when you pay them it has to be put in a trust account it has to be in that trust account for your protection”
“so when the money is in the trust account it is your money still belongs to you”
“the only time the money doesn't belong to you is the client is once the attorney is able to pull the money from trust account in other words bill against the retainer and earn the money”
“conversely when we're looking at a flat rate attorney there are different ways that people charge in flat rates and we'll go into more detail in other videos but flat rates can be determined a number of ways you need to ask the attorney how they're determining their flat rate how you know what portion of money you get to keep if any how they're taking money from your trust account and how that's set up”
Alexis explains: "conversely when we're looking at a flat rate attorney there are different ways that people charge in flat rates and we'll go into more detail in other videos but flat rates can be determined a number of ways you need to ask the attorney how they're determining their flat rate how you know what portion of money you get to keep if any how they're taking money from your trust account and how that's set up"
Answered by Alexis Austin Litle · Watch clip ↗Alexis explains: "I'm going to write Law Group what we do is we do it in stages so depending on the stage of the case we're allowed to take a certain percentage of the retainer agreement we are very clear with our clients that if we don't do a certain stage of the case and that stage doesn't go we get that money back to the client because any money sitting in the trust account still belongs to you the client"
Answered by Alexis Austin Litle · Watch clip ↗Alexis explains: "in Colorado you should know exactly at what point your attorney is taking money from the trust account where you put money in to cover the cost of your case there should be a retainer agreement that you signed and it should list out very specifically at what stage in the case the attorney is allowed to withdraw that money now for those of you who aren't aware what happened in Colorado when you are working with a flat fee case which is what most criminal defense attorneys do is we as the criminal defense attorney take your money that you pay it and put it in a trust account and then we bill from that trust account so when the money is in the trust account it is your money still belongs to you"
Answered by Alexis Austin Litle · Watch clip ↗Alexis explains: "so when the money is in the trust account it is your money still belongs to you"
Answered by Alexis Austin Litle · Watch clip ↗Alexis explains: "the only time the money doesn't belong to you is the client is once the attorney is able to pull the money from trust account in other words bill against the retainer and earn the money"
Answered by Alexis Austin Litle · Watch clip ↗Each answer links directly to the source where a Right Law Group attorney addressed this question.
5 answers grounded in Right Law Group sources
a DUI case
knows the law and helps represent you to the best of their ability
helped me get a DUI case dismissed in El Paso county
pulled over in Manitou Springs and accused of a DUI… even though I was completely sober!
They took the time to hear me out, review every detail of my case, and make sure I was never left in the dark
Dismissed at the DMV hearing, and dismissed in court