Services
Confidentiality
Our lawyers are not only bound by the duty of confidentiality as laid down in the Counsel Act, but our lawyers and all our other employees are also bound by strict rules on confidentiality by contract. Our clients must be assured of absolute confidentiality of the information entrusted to our lawyers, also after termination of the legal services.
Our professional ethics
Bearing in mind our vision, within the framework of the Counsel Act and the Rules of Honor for Lawyers, our firm has developed clear professional ethics with the following core values: reliability, accessibility, quality, understanding of the interests involved, solution-oriented, sound pragmatism, teamwork and commitment.
Intake
After a request for legal assistance an interview follows, during which the lawyer collects all information relevant to assess the request, and determines the precise requirement on the part of the client. The information collected, is then analyzed and legally assessed by a team of lawyers. The client is informed as soon as possible of the findings of the team and gets specific advice from the lawyer. If the client agrees with the recommended steps and the proposed fee, a services agreement is entered into between our office and the client. In urgent cases the intake and the discussion of the advice to the client take place on the same day.
Solution-oriented
Legal problems are commonly related to social, cultural and economic factors. Hence we ensure that legal problems are not juridified, in other words, are considered outside their social context. Although we are trained to perform lawsuits, our advice may sometimes be not to litigate, but to arrive at an acceptable solution e.g. through mediation, binding advice or a settlement.
Special facilities
A modern law firm requires a number of special facilities. Our office is centrally located in Paramaribo and has a 300 m2 protected parking lot. For our services our office makes use of a modern computer program and fixed administrative procedures. Our clients can be given access to the state of affairs at any time, the costs incurred for the services and the funds collected for our clients. Such funds are deposited into segregated trust accounts, which have been transferred to legal entities especially established for this purpose. Our lawyers are insured against professional negligence, so that unforeseen damage on that account is covered. The general terms and conditions apply to our services.
Our clients include individual citizens who need legal assistance, up to multinational companies in Suriname, the Caribbean, South and North America and Europe, including banks, oil companies, shipping companies, insurance syndicates and international producers of goods and services. However, the majority of our clients consists of Surinamese enterprises and natural persons who have entrusted their legal interests to our office. Through a subscription to our services they are among our many regular clients for whom our lawyers are available at any time.