Rates/Terms
FEES ($225.00 per hour): Except as provided below, or as ordered by a court, an agency or as established by an engaging panel, all dispute resolution services conducted by Mr. Jones, including telephone conferences, preparation time to review position/document submissions, court communications and all other time associated with the engagement, are billed at the rate of $225.00 per hour, plus reimbursement of any copying, postage or travel expenses (i.e., mileage reimbursement at the permitted IRS rate and, when the engagement requires an overnight stay, meals and lodging). Unless otherwise agreed at the time services are rendered, at the conclusion of the dispute resolution services engagement, the party or the attorney for each party, if any, will be provided with a bill for that party’s share of such fees and reimbursable expenses.
JOINT RESPONSIBILITY OF ATTORNEYS and EACH PARTY: Even though the retaining attorneys are acting as an agent for their client (i.e., a disclosed principal), in consideration of Mr. Jones reserving time to provide dispute resolution services without requiring prepayment of fees, each party and each party’s attorney, if any, undertake to be jointly and severally responsible and liable for timely payment to the Jones Law Group PLLC of that party’s dispute resolution services invoice, including fees and reimbursement of expenses.
PREPAYMENT FLAT FEE/Full Day Reserved: If the parties elect to reserve a full day of dispute resolution services (8 hours constituting a full day) and make a non-refundable prepayment in full no later than twenty-four hours before the commencement of such services (as consideration for reserving the full day at a reduced rate), then the flat fee rate for such services shall be $1,200 per day, paid equally by the parties, plus reimbursable expenses as stated above, if any (to be billed after services are rendered subject to the terms in the preceding paragraphs). Any time after 8 hours will be also be billed after services are rendered at $225.00 per hour subject to the terms in the preceding paragraphs.
WAIVED OR REDUCED TRAVEL FEES: Given the progress of the Appalachian Corridor Highways and the Interstate Highway system in West Virginia, travel by automobile to most parts of the State is more convenient, thereby enabling attorneys like Mr. Jones to provide services Statewide. In standing behind the pledge to provide dispute resolution services on a competitive basis Statewide, reductions in the standard fee schedule are made for travel time, with the counties organized below according to West Virginia’s tourism regions as outlined in the Country Roads Journal.
- TRAVEL FEE WAIVED: Fee waived for travel time (standard mileage reimbursement from and to Charleston applies) Metro Valley: Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mingo, Putnam and Wayne
- TRAVEL FEE REDUCED: $112.50 per hour travel time (standard mileage reimbursement from and to Charleston applies) New River/Greenbrier Valley: Fayette, Greenbrier, McDowell, Mercer, Monroe, Raleigh, Summers and Wyoming; Mid-Ohio Valley: Calhoun, Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie, Roane , Wirt and Wood; Mountain Lakes: Braxton, Clay, Gilmer, Lewis, Nicholas, Upshur and Webster; Mountaineer Country: Barbour, Doddridge, Harrison, Marion, Monongalia, Preston and Taylor; Northern Panhandle: Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio, Tyler and Wetzel
- TRAVEL FEE REDUCED: $112.50 per hour travel time (standard mileage reimbursement from and to Seneca Rocks applies) Eastern Panhandle: Berkley, Jefferson and Morgan; Potomac Highlands: Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Pocahontas, Randolph, Mineral (trips to the Eastern Panhandle and the Potomac Highlands gives me a chance to visit with relatives in Seneca Rocks so the travel time is calculated from and back to Seneca Rocks, not Charleston).
LITIGATED CASES: Dispute resolution services in pending civil actions will be conducted in accordance with the applicable Federal or State court statutes and/or rules. Unless agreed to in advance by the parties, the dispute resolution proceeding shall be attended by an attorney and the client or, in the case of a corporation or other legal entity, by an attorney and an officer or employee of the client.
