Frequently Asked Questions About Our Law Firm

 FAQs

General Questions

  • Our firm was founded by Talin Hitik, who has a unique background and extensive experience in commercial litigation, business transactions and international law. At Hitik Law, we leverage the full extent of our expertise to provide comprehensive legal support, no matter the complexity of your case.

    We prioritize personalized attention and tailor our approach to each client's unique needs, ensuring that clients receive top-notch legal representation. We maintain open and transparent communication throughout the legal process, keeping clients informed and involved. We also adhere to the highest ethical standards, ensuring trust and integrity in all client interactions.

  • We have two major areas of practice – business / commercial law and international law. We handle entity formation for startups, draft commercial contracts, help with regulatory compliance and foreign subsidiary formation in the US. We also consult on a wide array of problems regarding international law, such as international marriage, divorce and adoption, child abduction and international service of process.

  • We do not charge for the initial consultation. Your first 30-minute consultation will be completely free. The initial consultation is for you to discuss the details of your case and ask any questions you may have to the attorney before deciding to engage with our law firm.

  • You can give us a call at +1 (312) 685-2292 or request a call from us through our website. You can also contact us via email info@hitiklaw.com.

    A specialist from our law firm will have a short conversation with you about the details of your matter, put down your contact information and schedule your first free initial consultation.

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Becoming a Client

  • "To retain a lawyer" or "to engage a lawyer" means you want to hire a lawyer to assist you with a certain matter. Once you decide to retain a lawyer from our law firm, we will send you a client engagement letter which sets out the matter on which you have sought our services and details of the lawyer-client relationship. This includes how you will be charged for legal services, forms of communication with you and assurance of confidentiality.

  • Once you decide to hire an attorney from our law firm and sign the engagement letter, we will require the payment of a retainer before providing legal services.

    A retainer is essentially a down-payment on legal services, which is held in a separate trust fund by our firm for you. As we perform legal services on your behalf and provide a statement of account for those services, we will draw down the retainer. Once it has been depleted, we may ask for an additional retainer if more work is required to be performed on your behalf.

    If your matter is resolved and there are still retainer funds remaining in trust for you, they will be returned to you.

  • Communication is crucial in a lawyer-client relationship. While working on your matter, we will communicate with you regularly by email or phone. You will receive updates on your matter and be asked for further instructions.

    We also use a confidential client portal for exchanging documents and messages. You will get access to your client portal once you sign the engagement letter and make the retainer payment.

    We understand that you want to be kept up to date with your case. We will routinely keep you informed of significant developments in your matter. We also encourage you to contact us by phone or e-mail at any time with any questions.

  • Certain communications between the lawyer and you as the client are absolutely confidential under the “attorney-client privilege”. You can give your lawyer all of the facts relevant to your matter without fear that the information will become public.

    The privilege only arises when the client reveals information in confidence to obtain legal advice or services. Information that you give your lawyer that is not privileged is instead treated as confidential, and, as such, may be disclosed in certain circumstances.

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Billing

  • At the beginning of each month we will send you an itemized bill, detailing the services rendered during the previous month.

    The funds from your trust account will then be applied to the monthly bill. If you have an outstanding balance after the trust funds have been applied, you will need to make a payment through the link provided in the bill. You will then receive a new trust request to replenish your trust account.

  • No, we do not charge for the initial consultation. Your first 30-minute consultation will be completely free.

  • All bills have an issue date and due date indicated on them. Our trust requests and regular monthly bills are due upon receipt. If you fail to make a payment on the due date, you will receive automatic reminders from our management system reminding you of your outstanding balance.

  • We maintain a separate bank account for money we hold in trust for our clients, designated as a trust account.

    Your funds from the trust account will be applied to the bills issued by the law firm. Once you have no funds left in the trust account, we may ask you to make a new trust payment.

    If your matter is resolved and you still have funds remaining in the trust account, we will be return you those funds.

  • You can pay the trust requests and any outstanding bills by using a credit card.

    Note that there is a 2.9% credit card transaction fee. There is no transaction fee for payment by other methods.