Legal Aid Ontario - Contract For Legal Services/retainer Agreement Template Page 7

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The Lawyer will keep you fully informed of all events as they develop in your case,
but there may be periods of unavoidable delay. The Lawyer will do what her/she can
to minimize this problem.
Amendments:
6.
The C lient may request that the Lawyer provide additional
services. If the Lawyer agrees to provide additional services, those additional
services will be specifically listed in an amendment to this Agreement, and initialed
and dated by both parties. The date that both the Lawyer and the Client initial any
such list of additional services to be provided, will be the date on which the Lawyer
becomes responsible for providing those additional services. If the Client wishes
to obtain additional services from Lawyer/Shawyer Family Law a photocopy
which clearly denotes which extra services are to be provided, signed and dated by
both Lawyer/Shawyer Family Law and Client and attached to the amendment of
this Agreement, shall qualify as an amendment.
Solicitor of Record
7.
: It is the intention of the Lawyer and the Client that
the Lawyer shall only perform those services specifically requested of the
Lawyer. In the event that any court requires the Lawyer, as solicitor of record for
one or more authorized issues or tasks, to assume the responsibility for other tasks
or issues reserved to the Client or a third party professional, the Lawyer may, at
his/her sole discretion, elect to withdraw from representation, and the Client agrees
to execute any Notice of Change in Representation forms reasonably requested by
the Lawyer within 24 hours of such a request.
The Client understands that from time to time a law clerk, articling student or
Shawyer Family Law Limited Retainer Agreement
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