Pacta Sunt Servanda provides legal services to businesses and individuals in Karaganda: contracts, disputes, debt recovery and the ordinary legal work of running a company.
The name is the oldest rule in contract law, and it cuts both ways. Before anything else, a client should know who they are hiring, what they are buying and what nobody can sell them.
In Kazakhstan this is not open to everybody with a website. The law distinguishes between categories of provider, each with its own status and its own register. Establish which category is in front of you before paying a retainer — it determines what that person may actually do for you.
Hold a licence and belong to a regional bar association. Representation in criminal proceedings is theirs; they also act in civil and administrative matters.
Provide paid legal assistance under the framework introduced for this profession, subject to membership of a chamber of legal consultants and its register.
Employed lawyers working for their own employer, and specialists whose work does not amount to providing paid legal assistance to outside clients.
Each of these is offered somewhere every week, usually to people already under pressure. Every one of them costs more than the fee.
Drafting and reviewing commercial contracts, and rewriting the ones that have already caused an argument.
Pre-trial claims, negotiation and representation in civil and commercial proceedings, with an honest assessment of prospects at the start.
Demands, proceedings and enforcement — including telling a client when a debtor has nothing worth pursuing.
Corporate documents, counterparty checks, employment paperwork and the routine legal housekeeping companies postpone.
It depends on the stage reached and on what the other side does, which is why the contract should set out how the fee is calculated rather than a single number. Ask for the realistic total range, including state duty and expert costs, and ask what would make it higher.
Longer than clients expect. Timeframes depend on the court's schedule, the conduct of the other side and any appeal. Anyone promising a date is promising something outside their control.
For small, documented claims, sometimes yes, and we will say so. Representation earns its cost where the sums are significant, the facts are contested or the other side has a lawyer.
A judgment is a right to enforce, not a payment. This is why the debtor's actual assets are worth checking before litigation rather than after — the pleasant judgment and the empty enforcement file are the same case.
Bring the documents — the contract, the correspondence, anything signed — and a short account of what happened, in order. An hour spent on that produces a better assessment than a week of explanation without papers.
The contract, the correspondence and the dates. Fees and scope are agreed in writing before work begins, and payment is to the company's account.