TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE GENERAL LEGAL SERVICES AGREEMENT OF THE “LEAGUS” LAW FIRM
- Definitions
1.1. General Terms and Conditions refer to these general terms and conditions of the legal services agreement, which constitute an integral and
inseparable part of the Agreement.
1.2. “Client” means a natural or legal person to whom the Partnership provides legal services and with whom a contract for legal services has been concluded at
.
1.3. The Firm refers to the law firm “Leagus,” legal entity code 307379171, including all
staff of the Firm—partners, attorneys, legal professionals, employees, and other individuals.
1.4. “Agreement” means the legal services agreement concluded between the Client and the Firm, pursuant to which legal services are provided to the Client at
.
1.5. “Representation Agreement” means the representation agreement concluded between the Client and the Firm pursuant to this Agreement
(if necessary), through which the Client specifies and/or expands the rights granted to the Firm and its attorneys
to represent the Client in dispute resolution and/or other proceedings.
2. Legal Services
2.1. The Firm undertakes to provide the Client with legal services for which the Client will issue an engagement letter to the Firm, and
the Firm will expressly accept such engagement from the Client. The Firm has the right to provide the following legal services:
2.1.1.
to advise the client on matters concerning the application and interpretation of the private international law and public international law of the Republic of Lithuania and the European Union
, as well as on matters of legal theory and judicial practice;
2.1.2.
draft various legal documents (litigation documents, contracts, claims,
memoranda, legal opinions, etc.), as well as perform a legal assessment of documents
(and other information) submitted by the Client and/or third parties;
2.1.3.
represent the Client before all judicial and non-judicial dispute resolution bodies (including, but not
limited to, any pre-trial dispute resolution bodies, national, foreign and international courts, as well as
arbitration tribunals) in civil, criminal, misdemeanor, and
administrative cases of all types and instances;
2.1.4.
to defend the Client in cases involving administrative offenses of all types and at all levels of jurisdiction, as well as in all types of
criminal cases, both during the pretrial investigation and during court proceedings in courts of all instances
(including national, foreign, and international courts);
2.1.5.
to represent the Client in all institutions of the Republic of Lithuania, foreign and international institutions, as well as in government and
administrative, local government, and other institutions, agencies, and organizations, and in relations with all
natural and legal persons;
2.1.6.
to provide other legal services as agreed upon by the Firm and the Client.
2.2. The Community may express its opinion on matters related to the laws of other jurisdictions, however, this is not considered the provision of legal services by
, and the Firm assumes no liability under any circumstances for the accuracy of such opinions expressed at
.
2.3. If it becomes necessary to specify or expand the scope of authority of the Firm or its individual attorneys when representing the Client at
in dispute resolution and/or other proceedings, the parties may additionally enter into a Representation Agreement,
in which such powers of attorney will be discussed in detail.
3. Provision of Legal Services
3.1. The Client may submit requests to the Firm for the provision of legal services in writing or orally. At the request of the Firm’s
attorneys, oral requests must be confirmed in writing. The Firm reserves the right to refuse to accept
or to carry out the Client’s instructions in the event of a direct or indirect conflict of interest, or if the execution of such instructions
falls outside the Firm’s area of expertise, or for other compelling reasons.
3.2. The Client undertakes to provide the Firm with comprehensive and accurate information necessary for the provision of legal services
or reasonably requested by the Firm’s attorneys. The Client must promptly notify the Firm
of any changes to such information and/or events that may affect the proper provision of legal services
. In any case, the Firm will consider the information and documents received from the Client to be complete
and accurate.
3.3. The legal services provided shall be deemed accepted and in compliance with the Client’s requirements
14 calendar days after their provision, unless the Client submits to the Association, in writing, within this period, reasonable
comments or objections regarding the services.
3.4. Legal services at the Association may be provided by partners, attorneys, lawyers, Association employees,
consultants, or other persons whom the Association engages to carry out its activities and provide legal services
without the Client’s separate consent.
3.5. With the Client’s separate consent, the Firm has the right to engage other persons (e.g., foreign law firms, audit
firms, consultants, experts in various fields, etc.) to provide legal or related services under the Agreement
.
3.6. Upon completion of the assignment and in the absence of a separate instruction from the Client (which shall be deemed a new assignment), the Firm
shall have no obligation to supplement or amend the information or documents previously provided to the Client in the course of performing the assignment
. This principle also applies in cases where legislation or
(and/or) case law related to the Client’s order changes, or where new circumstances come to light.
3.7. All intellectual property rights to intellectual
property created by the Community in the course of fulfilling the Client’s order belong to the Community. For the sake of clarity, it should be noted that the Client may use the intellectual property created by the Firm
for the purposes for which it received such property.
4. Fees and Reimbursement of Expenses
4.1. The Client undertakes to pay the Firm a fee for the services provided. The fee for legal services
is calculated based on the Firm’s hourly rates, multiplied by the time
spent on the Client’s assignment. The Firm’s hourly rates are specified in the Agreement. The minimum billing increment for legal services
is 15 minutes.
4.2. For time spent by the Firm’s staff on travel, waiting, and other activities during which legal services are not provided,
but which is devoted to the execution of the Client’s assignment, the Client agrees to pay the agreed-upon hourly rate.
The minimum billing interval for time spent on the assignment is 15 minutes.
4.3. Taking into account the complexity of the case, the complexity of the legal services, the need for specialized knowledge,
the novelty of the legal issues being addressed, and other relevant circumstances, the hourly rate may be
adjusted, and the Parties shall agree on the revised hourly rate in a form acceptable to both: by exchanging emails at
, by entering into a separate addendum to the Agreement, or by other means. In this case, the revised price of the services
shall be considered an integral part of the Agreement.
4.4. If the Client is a consumer, a natural person, or a community, to the extent possible, the Firm shall notify the Client in advance via email at
or by any other method specified in the Agreement of the preliminary price of legal services for the Client’s entire assignment or
for a specific stage of the assignment. If the Client notifies the Firm in the same manner within 2 business days of the date the Firm sent the notice to
, expressing their clear disagreement with such a fee for legal services, the Firm has the right
not to begin providing the services, and if they have already begun, to immediately suspend the provision of services.
A preliminary system for calculating the minimum number of legal work hours allocated to legal services
is provided to the Client, who is a consumer, for review and signature at the time the Agreement is concluded.
4.5. The Firm reserves the right to unilaterally change hourly rates by providing the Client with 30
calendar days’ prior written notice. The hourly rate applied by the Community and specified in the Agreement is reviewed once per
calendar year. Upon the Association’s notification of the new rates, if the Client does not agree with the Association’s new hourly rates
, the Client has the right to terminate the Agreement.
4.6. The Client agrees to reimburse the Association for all expenses incurred in providing legal services, including, but
not limited to, information gathering, checks in public records, copying of documents, international telephone
calls, data transfer, postage, courier and parcel services, translation, travel, transportation, car
parking, lodging (when services are provided outside of Vilnius), making payments on behalf of the Client, stamp duty
, and other taxes. The Association has the right to request that the Client reimburse the Association for such expenses in advance at
or to pay such expenses directly to third parties.
4.7. In the event of litigation, arbitration, and/or other disputes, the Client may recover all or part of the service fee paid to the Community
from the opposing party that lost the dispute. However, if the Client loses the dispute, they may be required to cover the costs of the court,
arbitration, and/or other dispute resolution body, as well as the litigation and other costs incurred by the opposing party and/or third parties involved in the dispute
.
4.8. Payments made by the Client to the Community must be free of any deductions or withholdings (for example, fees for
banking services, money transfers, etc.).
4.9. Invoices for services rendered are issued to the Client on a monthly basis or upon completion of a specific
order. The Community sends invoices electronically (without a physical signature) to the email address specified by the Client in the Agreement
. The Community reserves the right to outsource the financial accounting for
, as well as the issuance and mailing of invoices, to third-party service providers.
4.10. The Client agrees to pay the Community’s invoice within 5 calendar days of receipt or,
if the Client disagrees with the invoice, to submit written comments regarding the invoice to the Community within this period. If the Client does not submit any written comments regarding the invoice received within the period specified at
, the invoice shall be deemed correct and accepted at
.
4.11. The Parties may agree in writing, in a form acceptable to them—for example, by exchanging emails—on the amount and terms of advance payments
(both for a one-time advance payment and for periodic advance payments).
If such an advance payment is agreed upon even before the conclusion of the Agreement, such an agreement shall be considered an integral part of the Agreement
, regardless of whether the Parties specifically include a provision regarding the advance payment
in the text of the Agreement or draw up a separate addendum to the Agreement.
4.12. If the Customer fails to pay the Community’s invoice on time, the Customer shall pay late payment interest at a rate of 0.05 percent of the amount not paid on time
for each day of delay.
4.13. If the Client fails to pay the Association’s invoice on time, the Association has the right to unilaterally suspend the provision of further legal services
and to demand that the Client pay for all services provided up to that point.
4.14. If necessary, the Association may initiate debt collection proceedings. Furthermore, if, following a reminder from the Association
regarding payment of the debt, the Client fails to settle the full amount owed to the Association for the services provided, the Community
reserves the right, at its discretion, to assign its monetary claims against the Client to third parties (e.g., debt
collection agencies, etc.).
5. Liability and Limitation of Liability
5.1. The liability of the Firm, its attorneys, legal professionals, employees, and consultants is limited to the amount of money that it
received from the Client for the performance of the specific assignment related to the breach, except in cases where members of the Firm’s
staff breached their obligations intentionally or through gross negligence.
5.2. Fault on the part of the Firm and its staff members is, in all cases, a necessary condition for liability to arise.
5.3. The Company shall not be liable in any case for the following losses incurred by the Client: (i) losses caused by incomplete,
incorrect, or inaccurate information provided by the Client; (ii) losses incurred by the Client due to third parties’ failure to provide or improper provision of services to the Client
(regardless of whether such third parties
were engaged with the Community’s involvement or not); (iii) indirect losses; as well as (iv) non-pecuniary
damages.
5.4. In all cases, the Community is liable only to the Client who has entered into the Agreement with the Community and is not liable for damages caused to other third parties
who are not parties to the Agreement.
5.5. The Community is not liable for damages arising from consultations provided to the Client or documents prepared for the Client if they
were used for a purpose other than that for which they were prepared.
5.6. In the event that the Agreement is entered into not by a single Client but by several Clients (natural and/or legal persons), all of them shall be jointly and severally liable to the Firm for the obligations assumed under the Agreement at
.
5.7. If the Community’s attorneys, legal assistants providing legal services to the Community, lawyers, or other staff of
are personally involved in judicial, pre-trial, or arbitration proceedings arising from the Client’s actions at
, The Client undertakes to compensate the Association for any damages incurred by its attorneys, legal assistants
, lawyers, or other staff providing legal services to the Association, as well as for reasonable litigation costs.
6. Confidentiality
6.1. The Firm guarantees the
and that it will not be disclosed to third parties, except when required by law or by a court,
competent authorities (persons), or when such information is used to execute the Client’s order.
The Firm’s obligations regarding the confidentiality of information shall remain in effect even after the termination of the Agreement.
6.2. The Firm has the right to disclose confidential information related to the provision of legal services to the contact persons specified by the Client in the Agreement
, as well as to other persons explicitly designated by the Client.
6.3. If the Client instructs the Firm to use the services of other service providers
while providing legal services, or if the Client agrees to use the services of other service providers proposed by the Firm,
the Firm may, unless otherwise expressly agreed, disclose to them such confidential information and materials,
which the Firm deems necessary for the performance of the Engagement.
7. Processing of Personal Data
7.1. The Community may receive and process personal data from the Client. In cases where the Client is a natural person,
personal data also includes the Client’s own personal data. Detailed information regarding the processing of personal data
by the Firm is provided in the privacy policy, which is publicly available on the Firm’s website
at: www.leagus.lt/privatumo-politika/
7.2. Personal data received by the Community from the Client constitutes attorney-client privilege and is protected in accordance with the requirements applicable to such information
. Pursuant to Article 14(5)(d) of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU)
2016/679, the Firm is exempt from the obligation to disclose to third parties
personal data received from the Client.
8. Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
8.1. The Firm hereby informs the Client that all of the Firm’s attorneys, paralegals, and legal professionals are required to comply with the applicable requirements at
regarding the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing, and that the Firm is required to
report suspicious financial transactions and deals, or certain transactions,
involving cash.
8.2. If the Company is required to report possible money laundering while executing a Client’s order, the Company may
be unable to inform the Client that a report has been made to the relevant authorities or the reasons for doing so.
8.3. In order to comply with legal requirements, the Company must obtain proof of the Client’s identity within a period that is reasonably
necessary for that purpose. Therefore, the Client agrees, upon the Community’s request, to provide documents that would allow the Community to verify the identity and address of the Client or the Client’s representative and to obtain other information required by law
. The Client also acknowledges that the Community may disclose relevant information to credit institutions,
if such institutions request this information while conducting anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing
checks.
9. Entry into Force and Termination of the Agreement
9.1. The Agreement enters into force upon signature by both parties. For the sake of clarity, it should be noted that upon signing the Agreement, these General Terms and Conditions apply to the parties
and become binding.
9.2. In the event that the Client is subject to the Public Procurement Law of the Republic of Lithuania and the public procurement procedures set forth therein
, or if the Client, pursuant to other applicable laws and regulations / documents
, the Client is required to procure legal services through a competitive bidding process, the Client confirms that, prior to the conclusion of this Agreement, it
duly complied with the public procurement requirements or competitive bidding requirements applicable to it.
9.3. If the Client is a legal entity, the representative signing the Agreement on its behalf confirms that he or she is duly authorized
to enter into the Agreement and also confirms that he or she has obtained all necessary corporate consents,
permissions and/or approvals for the conclusion and performance of the Agreement.
9.4. Each party has the right to unilaterally terminate the Agreement out of court at any time for any
reasons, by notifying the other party in writing no later than 14 calendar days prior to the intended
termination of the Agreement.
9.5. If services are not provided to the Client under the Agreement for 12 months or longer, then the Agreement shall automatically
(without any further notice between the parties) be deemed terminated upon the expiration of 12 months from the date of the last provision of services
. If, after the termination of the Agreement, the Client submits a request to the Community for the provision of services
and the Community accepts such a request, the Agreement is deemed to be automatically renewed, unless
the Firm offers the Client a new legal services agreement or refuses to accept the Client’s request.
Similar rules apply to the Representation Agreement, if one has been concluded.
9.6. The Company has the right to unilaterally terminate the Agreement immediately, without recourse to the courts, by sending the Customer a written notice of termination to
at least 1 calendar day prior to the intended termination of the Agreement,
if:
9.6.1.
9.6.2.
the Client fails to pay the Association for the services provided for more than 45 calendar days;
The Company has reasonable grounds to suspect that the Customer is engaged in and/or intends to engage in money laundering and
(or) terrorist financing;
9.6.3.
9.6.4.
The Client becomes insolvent, or bankruptcy or restructuring proceedings are initiated against them;
The Client fails to cooperate with the Community or engages in actions (or inaction) that make the provision of
services under this Agreement impossible or substantially impeded.
9.7. In the event of termination of this Agreement for any reason, the Client must pay the Community a fee and reimburse all expenses
for services provided prior to the termination of this Agreement.
9.8. The Parties agree that upon termination of the Agreement for any reason, the Representation Agreement, if one was concluded, shall also be automatically terminated without separate notice, including at
.
12. Other Provisions
12.1. All notices, requests, claims, and other correspondence must be submitted to the addresses of the parties specified in the Agreement
in one of the following ways: in writing and delivered to the addressee in person, or sent by mail
via certified mail or courier, or sent by email. The parties undertake to immediately notify each other at
of any changes to the contact information specified in the Agreement.
12.2. If one party fails to notify the other party in a timely manner of a change in contact information, any information sent using the party’s last known contact details at
shall be deemed proper notification.
12.3. This Agreement and the interpretation of its provisions shall be governed by the laws of the Republic of Lithuania.
12.4. Disputes between the parties arising from this Agreement shall be resolved through negotiation. If the dispute cannot be resolved through negotiations within
14 calendar days, it shall be resolved in the courts of Vilnius (contractual jurisdiction) in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Lithuania
.
12.5. This Agreement constitutes the final agreement and supersedes any other agreements regarding the provision of legal services previously entered into by the parties prior to the conclusion of this Agreement
.
12.6. The parties expressly agree in advance that, in addition to other methods established by law for entering into or amending this Agreement, they also
have the right to enter into or amend this Agreement by exchanging an Agreement via email mail, using a Contract or its amendments that have been signed with the usual signatures of both
parties and scanned, which shall be deemed to constitute the execution of a written
document.
12.7. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of the Agreement and the General Terms and Conditions, the provisions set forth in the Agreement shall prevail
.
12.8. The Community has the right to unilaterally amend the General Terms and Conditions by notifying the Client in advance via email or mail at
30 calendar days prior to such amendment. The Customer has the right to refuse the provision of services and terminate the Agreement at
if they do not agree with the amended General Terms and Conditions.
12.9. The most recent version of the General Terms and Conditions is always available on the Community’s website at:
www.leagus.lt/bendrosios-tps-salygos/
Last updated: August 26, 2025