About Bielski Chapman

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the areas of law that bilsky Chapman

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practices in is probate and guardianship

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law real estate law Estate Planning and

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general business transactional and

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litigation law as far as probate and

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guardianship work we are one of the

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larger firms in Illinois as far as

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volume of cases and we practice in

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almost every County in Illinois and we

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have cases pending throughout the United

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States

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so when we’re providing our clients with

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service we really like to give White

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Glove VIP servants to all of our clients

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we know that our clients are coming from

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all different backgrounds all different

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levels of wealth all different walks of

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life and we treat every single one of

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our clients like a VIP

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foreign

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most of our cases are flat or what’s

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considered fixed fee cases these are set

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rates that the client knows going into

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the engagements however on certain cases

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in which that is not practical we will

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sit down with the client and explain to

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them what the hourly rate would be and

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what the proposed budget will be our

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goal is that the client knows exactly

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what they’re getting into as far as

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rates and fees and we want to

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communicate our rates to them at all

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stages of the engagement an example in

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which fees might be flat would be

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guardianship by Statute and by rule

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judges require that we do that hourly so

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those are at a statutory rate and so

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that would be an example where we cannot

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do a fixed fee some of the more

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complicated estate planning engagements

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in which we’re doing heavy tax planning

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or there is something that is really

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unique those are examples where we would

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engage on an hourly basis but again in

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all those cases we try to put a budget

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in place so the client knows what that

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rate will be when the engagement is

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completed