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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