Common use of Retainers Clause in Contracts

Retainers. After our final bill is paid, any balance left in your trust account is refunded to you. We request retainers and charge interest on overdue accounts from our clients for three reasons: (a) We want to focus our energies on resolving your legal problems rather than collecting past due accounts; (b) Once we invoice a client, we must pay the HST on the invoice quarterly even if we have not received payment from you; (c) We will not withdraw so close to a court appearance that you cannot obtain and prepare a new lawyer to adequately represent you. Therefore, before a court appearance is scheduled we require you to pay all outstanding accounts and a further retainer for the estimated fees and expenses of preparing for and completing the court appearance. We will give you a deadline date by which the further retainer must be paid and will withdraw from the Court record as your counsel if this deadline cannot be met.