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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPlews Shadley Racher & Braun/CRC/15,000/PNC Bank Matters • PLE W S SHADLEY 1346 North Dian Street Indianapolis,Indiana 46202 :°oo A� Phone:(317)637-0700 11••i RACHER&BRAUN LLP Fax:(317)637-0710 ATTORNEYS AT LAW www.psrb.COm Peter M. Rather pracher @psrb.com June 13, 2013 Douglas C. Haney, Esq. Office of the City Attorney City Hall One Civic Square Carmel, IN 46032 Re: Fee Agreement for PNC Matter Dear Doug: Thank you for meeting with me last month and retaining our firm to represent the Carmel Redevelopment Commission in connection with the identification of petroleum contamination emanating from the PNC Bank property located at the northeast corner of North Rangeline Road and Main Street in Carmel. This letter confirms our retention and recites the terms under which we have undertaken such representation. Pursuant to our discussions, we will provide services on an ongoing basis and bill you on an hourly basis as set forth below. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing between us, the following terms will control our agreement. PERFORMANCE OF SERVICES I will be responsible for this engagement. In ordefto minimize professional fees or utilize appropriate expertise, I may from time to time assigrieertain tasks to other attorneys, paralegals or other persons employed or engaged by the firm. PROFESSIONAL FEES AND EXPENSES Our practice is to bill for actual time spent by an attorney or paralegal at their hourly rate in effect at the time the work is performed. Our current rates are set forth on the attached hourly rate sheet. We strive whenever possible to assign work to lawyers and icgai support staff with the lowest hourly rates. Hourly rates usually are adjusted annually beginning in January of each year. We will not charge you for many of the customary office expenses incurred in our representation. For example, we will not charge for domestic facsimile,domestic long distance telephone, domestic conference calls,or routine legal research database charges. We also will not charge for the first 250 normal-size black and white photocopies or the first 25 normal-size color photocopies in a given month (above such amounts we charge 10 cents per page for black and white copies and 40 cents per page for color copies)._If this engagement calls for any unusual or significant out of pocket expenditures, such as the retention of a technical consultant, expert witness fees, deposition transcripts, other outside vendor charges, or travel expenses, we would seek reimbursement for such charges. I will speak to you in advance of such expenses to • Douglas C. Haney, Esq. June 13, 2013 Page 2 obtain approval of same. TERMS OF PAYMENT Professional fees will be billed to you on a monthly basis. Unless you direct otherwise, we will send our statements to the attention of you, Les Olds and Matt Worthley. We request payment within thirty-five(35) days of receipt of our statement. Please let me know right away if you have questions or concerns regarding any of our statements. TERMINATION AND WITHDRAWAL You may terminate our representation at any time. Termination will not, however, relieve you of responsibility for payment of professional fees and expenses incurred before notice is given us, or for those incurred in connection with the orderly transition of your representation to a successor attorney or to you. We may withdraw from this representation under certain circumstances. For instance,the Rules of Professional Conduct require that we withdraw from representing a client where we discover that a client seeks our assistance to engage in criminal or fraudulent conduct, continued representation of the client will result in violation of the Rules, the client insists on pursuing an objective that we consider repugnant or imprudent, the client fails substantially to fulfill an obligation to us regarding our services (including prompt payment of professional fees and expenses), or where the continued representation of the client will result in an unreasonable financial burden on us or has been rendered unreasonably difficult by the client. I am not aware of ar y-conflict of interest regarding this matter with clients of the firm. If in the event we become aware of a conflict of interest, we will notify you and may withdraw our representation. I greatly appreciate that you have asked us to assist you in the scope of services set forth above. In the meantime, if you have any questions regarding this matter please do not hesitate to contact me. If the matters in this letter are agreeable to you, please sign below and return a copy of this letter. Verb ly yours, cla? eCtiU M. Racher Enclosure cc: Matt Worthley Les Olds Douglas C. Haney, Esq. June 13, 2013 Page 3 ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED: --`'� mss_lla Dou•I, , C Date: Ati.®n ® a3 PLEWS SHADLEY RACHER& BRAUN LLP 2013 RATES Hourly Hourly Name Title Rate Name Title Rate GEORGE M. PLEWS Partner $675 CHRISTINE C.PLEWS Of Counsel $570 SUE A.SHADLEY Partner $525 MARY ANN F.SAGGESE Of Counsel $350 PETER M. RACHER Partner $475 F. RONALDS WALKER Of Counsel $320 CHRISTOPHER J. BRAUN Partner $500 KAREN B.SCHEIDLER Of Counsel $300 JEFFREY D. CLAFLIN Partner $460 ANGELA M. GREEN Associate $240 FREDERICK D. EMHARDT Partner $460 TODD G. RELUE Associate $240 S.CURTIS DEVOE Partner $410 THERESA M. WILLARD Associate $240 JOHN B. BRIDGE Partner $420 STEPHANIE T. ECKERLE Associate $240 JEFFREY A.TOWNSEND Partner $420 SHELLEY M.JACKSON Associate $240 JEFFREY D. FEATHERSTUN Partner $460 DANIEL P. CORY Associate $215 JOHN M. KETCHAM Partner $375 JOSHUA S.TATUM Associate $215 ALEXANDRA LIPPS SYLVIA Partner $385 COLIN E.CONNOR Associate 5210 BRETT E.NELSON Partner $375 BRIANNA J. SCHROEDER Associate $210 JOHN D. MORIARTY Partner $325 JONATHAN L. PENN Associate $205 AMY E.ROMIG Partner $325 SEAN M. HIRSCHTEN Associate $200 TODD J.JANZEN Partner $310 KATHERINE K.SCHUMAN Associate $190 GREG M. GOTWALD Partner $310 AIZA H.SIDDIQI Associate $185 JONATHAN P. EMENHISER Partner $305 ELIZABETH PARKS STRAIN Case Manager $200 THAOT. NGUYEN Partner $305 FREDERICK J. HALTER Paralegal $195 KATHERINE.E.WINDERS Partner $290 CHASSIDY J. KING Paralegal $195 TONYAJ.,BOND Partner $290 JESSICA J. HERMANN Paralegal $195 C. KRISTA M.COX Paralegal $195 Costs Computer research actual cost Filing fees actual cost Hotels actual cost Meals actual cost Mileage actual cost Overnight mail actual cost Parking actual cost Photocopy-black/white $.20 per page Photocopy-color $.80 per page Postage actual cost