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Originally Posted by jfrancho
The lawyer will bill you for the same time either way is my bet, based on my experience with lawyers.
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Usually lawyers bill an hourly rate, billed in 1/10ths of an hour. So every 6 minutes, you will be billed. In larger firms like ones I work for, they are very strict about the billing. Smaller firms, this maybe a little flexible. I have the benefit of having over 1000 lawyers that I can ask to review my documents on their free time, for usually nothing or at the most lunch on me. I been in the legal industry for over 10 years and so I also have the benefit of having another side (plantiff) look it over to see if they can find the holes. Anyway, I highly recommend you hire an attorney. I also recommend against trying to play lawyer by drafting your own, unless you know a little about contract law and the laws governing your locale. Most of the time, lawyers would have these already drafted as a boiler plate and they simply add considerations that you request. If they have to edit your document, I will guarantee you it will cost you more. You may still want to print these out so that the attorney can use it as a guideline, if they do not have the boilerplate on hand.