Legal Disclaimer
1. General information
The information on this website is general information only. It is not legal advice and should not be relied on as legal advice.
2. Domestic Contract Review Fixed-Fee Review
Domestic Contract Review provides a lawyer-led, AI-assisted fixed-fee first review. A customer may complete an intake form, upload documents, pay $699 including GST, and receive a written assessment prepared and reviewed by an Australian solicitor.
3. AI does not provide legal advice
AI-assisted workflows may help organise documents, dates, chronology, issues and missing information. AI does not replace the lawyer and does not provide final legal advice to the customer.
The final written assessment is prepared and reviewed by an Australian solicitor.
By using the service, customers acknowledge that AI-assisted tools may be used to organise, summarise and analyse uploaded material for the purpose of preparing the lawyer-reviewed assessment.
4. Scope of retainer and solicitor-client relationship
The submission of an intake form, upload of documents or payment of the fixed fee does not by itself create an ongoing solicitor-client relationship or retainer beyond the fixed-fee review.
The fixed-fee review is limited to the review of the information and documents provided by the customer and the preparation of a written assessment. Any further advice, representation, drafting, negotiation, filing, correspondence, appearance or ongoing carriage of the matter requires a separate agreement or engagement.
5. Not full legal representation
The $699 Fixed-Fee Review is not full legal representation.
It does not include:
- acting on the customer's behalf
- contacting the other side
- filing court or tribunal documents
- appearing at a hearing
- negotiating with the other side
- drafting pleadings, affidavits or detailed submissions
- urgent injunction or emergency representation work
- ongoing carriage of the matter
- open-ended follow-up advice
Further work requires a separate fixed-fee agreement or engagement.
6. No outcome guarantee
Domestic Contract Review does not guarantee any particular outcome, settlement, court result, tribunal result, recovery, defence, negotiation outcome or legal result.
Any assessment is based on the information and documents provided by the customer at the time of review.
7. Information provided by customers
The usefulness of the review depends on the accuracy, completeness and relevance of the information and documents provided.
If important facts or documents are missing, incomplete, inaccurate, unclear or illegible, the assessment may be limited or may need to be revisited.
Domestic Contract Review may decline to provide a review, or refund the fixed fee, if the matter is unsuitable, outside scope, affected by conflict, insufficiently documented, abusive, unlawful, or otherwise inappropriate for the service.
8. Deadlines and urgent matters
Domestic Contract Review aims to provide the written assessment within 48 hours after payment and receipt of complete usable material.
Customers remain responsible for protecting their own position and complying with any deadlines unless Domestic Contract Review or another lawyer expressly agrees to take further action.
The Fixed-Fee Review does not include urgent representation or emergency legal action.
9. Jurisdiction and professional obligations
Domestic Contract Review is intended for Australian domestic contract matters and Australian users.
The service is subject to any mandatory professional obligations applying to the solicitor or legal practice providing the service.
Domestic Contract Review is operated as a fixed-fee domestic contract review platform of Baker Merz Lawyers.
Written assessments are prepared and reviewed by Australian solicitors through Baker Merz Lawyers.
Principal:
Hugo Alberto Merolla
10. Further advice
Customers should obtain further legal advice before taking or refraining from action where:
- the matter is urgent
- formal proceedings are involved
- large sums are at stake
- rights may be lost
- a deadline applies
- the matter involves serious personal, property, consumer, tribunal or commercial consequences
- the customer does not understand the written assessment
11. Contact
For support or process issues: support@domesticcontractreview.com.au
For payment, refund or accounting issues: accounts@domesticcontractreview.com.au