Plain answers.Written scope.
Ashcombe Street Law publishes the scope and the fee of every service before a single document changes hands.
- Location
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Weekday hours
- 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- Fees published
- Six services, scope and fee
01 · Services
Six services, six published fees
Each service is published with its scope, its fee and the kind of matter it suits. Nothing on this website completes a booking or forms an attorney-client relationship.
01.1 · Fee index
- 01Initial consultation$150
- 02Will and estate plan$1,400
- 03Business formation$950
- 04Contract reviewfrom $375
- 05Lease dispute review$450
- 06Employment matter assessment$295
02 · Approach
The scope is agreed in writing before the work starts, and the fee follows the scope.
Ashcombe Street Law works to a signed engagement letter rather than an open-ended retainer. A published fee applies to the scope printed beside it; anything outside that is quoted before it begins, so the figure on the invoice is the figure that was agreed. How the firm works.
02.1 · Three steps
From the first question to finished work
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01
The conflict check is run
The names in the enquiry are checked against the firm’s existing clients before anyone reads the detail of the matter.
Before anything is discussed
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02
The engagement letter is sent
The service, its fee and what it excludes are set out in a letter for signature. Work outside it is quoted separately.
Within three working days
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03
The work comes back in writing
Drafts, marked-up contracts and assessments come back with a note of the rule or clause each point rests on.
The agreed date
02.2 · What one engagement contains
- 01 Scope
- A signed engagement letter stating what the service covers, what it excludes and which published fee applies to it.
- 02 Inputs
- The documents needed, listed once at the start. Nothing further is requested unless the scope changes and is requoted.
- 03 Handoff
- The finished documents or written assessment, with any deadline they create marked on the first page.
- 04 Next step
- One named action and the date it falls due. Where nothing further is needed, the closing letter says so instead.
03 · Gallery
Libraries, reports and a courtroom door
04 · Staff
Three attorneys and one coordinator
04.1 · Managing attorney
Eleanor Voss
Managing attorney
Eleanor Voss drafts wills and estate plans and holds most initial consultations. She has practiced in Ohio since 2006 and signs every engagement letter the firm sends.
04.2 · Business attorney
Daniel Okafor
Business attorney
Daniel Okafor forms small companies and reviews commercial contracts, from supplier agreements to terms between owners. His mark-ups carry a plain-language note beside every clause he changes.
04.3 · Housing and employment attorney
Priya Raman
Housing and employment attorney
Priya Raman reviews lease disputes for landlords and tenants and assesses employment matters such as severance agreements. Her written assessments set out options and time limits, never a predicted result.
04.4 · Paralegal and intake coordinator
Thomas Keller
Paralegal and intake coordinator
Thomas Keller reads every new enquiry, runs the conflict check and prepares engagement letters for signature. He is not an attorney and does not give legal advice.
05 · Reviews
What three clients wrote
01
My husband and I had put off wills for eleven years because we assumed it would turn into an open-ended bill. Eleanor Voss sent a letter with one flat fee and a list of the four documents it covered, and that was the figure we paid. The signing meeting took forty minutes, with the witnesses and the notary arranged by the firm.
Marian K., Hyde Park
- Service
- Will and estate plan
- Written
02
Three of us were forming a small design company and thought the operating agreement was a formality. Daniel Okafor spent most of the first meeting on what happens if one member wants to leave, which none of us had discussed. The draft came back with a note beside each clause saying why it was there.
Owen T., Northside
- Service
- Business formation
- Written
03
I asked for a full review of a supplier agreement and was told, after a short read, that it was a standard form and did not need one. The firm suggested a consultation instead and charged the consultation fee. That is not what a firm says when it is selling.
Renee A., Oakley
- Service
- Contract review
- Written
06 · Questions
Four questions asked before the first meeting
Each answer states the firm’s position in its first sentence. The answers describe how the firm works and are not legal advice about any particular matter.
06.1 · Answers
01 How should a visitor choose a service?
Start with the six service descriptions and the fee beside each one. Where two options still look equally suitable, the initial consultation is the usual starting point, and its fee is credited against the larger service if one follows within thirty days.
02 Are the published fees final?
Published fees apply to the stated scope and to nothing else. A “from” fee is confirmed in the engagement letter before work begins, and court costs and state filing fees are paid to the court or the state and listed separately.
03 Does sending the form make the firm a visitor’s lawyer?
No. No attorney-client relationship is formed by this website or by sending the contact form. A relationship begins only when the conflict check is clear and both sides have signed an engagement letter.
04 Does the firm take every kind of matter?
No. Ashcombe Street Law does not handle criminal defense, personal injury, immigration, divorce or custody litigation, or probate administration. Where it cannot help, it says so in the first reply.
07 · Contact
Send the firm one specific question
An enquiry is answered by email or telephone during office hours. A message is a question, not an appointment, and sending one does not make the firm anyone’s lawyer.