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Phone:
(510) 530-4777
Mobile:
(510) 967-4486
Fax:
(510) 531-3675
Albert J. Ferrari
1000 Elbert Street
Oakland, CA 94602
Our corporation's federal ID number is 94-3022183
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES: A. J. Ferrari
Billable
services: $300 per hour (including
research, inspections, testing, document review, consultation, reports,
stand-by, travel, and file administration). The minimum billable time increment is
.1 hour. The minimum fee for any
case for which we are retained is $600.
We require that we open a file and be retained prior to being disclosed
as an expert witness. Initial
consultations are billable if we are subsequently retained. Fees will be estimated in advance upon
request.
Testimony
is billed at $400 per hour (including depositions, arbitrations, and
trials). A minimum charge of 1 hour
will apply to any testimony.
Fractions of the hour are rounded up to the next 1/4
hour.
TECHNICIAN
SERVICES:
Billable
technician services (model building and trial exhibit preparation, testing,
consultation, travel, etc.) are billed at $150 per hour. Testimony at depositions, arbitrations,
and trials are billed at $200 per hour.
SUPPORT
SERVICES:
Billable
technical support services: (property, codes and product research, locating
exemplar vehicles and products, photo and video processing, trial exhibit
procurement, etc.) are billed at $100 per hour. Clerical support services are billed at
$75 per hour. Messenger and other
logistic services are billed at $50 per hour.
DIRECT
EXPENSES:
Travel
by ground vehicle: $.75 per mile plus tolls and parking. Other direct expenses
are billed at our cost plus 20%.
Charges for subcontractor support services are subject to a reasonable
mark up above our cost.
EQUIPMENT
AND FACILITIES USAGE FEES:
We
reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee for the use of equipment,
facilities, hardware, software, consumables, etc. Evidence storage fees will be quoted as
required.
TERMS
OF PAYMENT:
Retainers
are held and applied when a closing invoice is requested. We require timely payment of our
periodic invoices. Accounts are due
when invoiced. Deposition fees are
due at the deposition appearance.
We reserve the right to require that outstanding balances be paid prior
to any testimony; to increase the required retainer amount at any time; and to
stop work until retainers are received and outstanding invoices are paid.
It
is the client’s responsibility to notify us when a case has been resolved and to
obtain and pay our closing bill at that time. The client will nonetheless be
responsible for subsequent invoices should they close their books on a case
without resolving our account.
Accounts
not paid within 30 days of the invoice mailing date will be subject to a late
charge of 1-1/2% per month, accruing from the date of the invoice, and all costs
of collection, including reasonable attorney’s fees. Any collection action shall be filed in
the City of Oakland, CA.
RATE
ADJUSTMENTS:
It
is our policy to avoid accepting a financial interest in the outcome of our
cases. Therefore, fee adjustments
should be negotiated prior to the conclusion of the case. Rates and terms agreed upon when a file
is opened shall apply for one year.
Otherwise, our rates are subject to change without notice. We reserve the right, with prior client
agreement, to utilize a sliding scale factor of .75 or less (e.g., small cases),
to 2.0 or more (e.g., emergency services), or to charge a fixed fee, applicable
to some or all of our work, where warranted by special
circumstances.
Our
corporation’s federal ID number is 94-3022183.
Albert J. Ferrari, P.E.. C.S.P.
Webmaster: Elliot J. Fuller