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Welcome to Bennett & Hebert Law PC
Bennett and Hebert P.C., provides legal services throughout Massachusetts since 1998. We are a general practice firm that concentrates our practice on the court coverage aspect of debt collection, criminal defense litigation, license loss challenges and sealing/correcting records. We will zealously advocate for you within the ethical standards set by law.
This site is an opportunity for you to learn about Bennett and Hebert and the services we provide. We are interested in representing your legal needs at reasonable rates. We provide consultations, legal research, writing, advice, court representations, jury trials and more.
If there is an area of law we don’t cover that you need we may be able to refer you to someone that can assist you. We have professional relationships with numerous law firms, business and experts.
Pursuant to Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rule 3:07 this website may be considered advertising. These pages are for informational purposes only. This information on this site is not legal advice. The information on these pages does not create an attorney client between you and our law firm. The links on this site are to assist you, they are not an endorsement of those linked sites.
If you would like to create an attorney client relationship with our firm call to set up an appointment and at that appointment you can decide to hire us and we can then agree to the creation of an attorney client business relation.
Bennett and Hebert P.C. is a small family practice that prides themselves on their work ethic, professionalism, legal knowledge and skills. The attorneys give their personal attention to every case they work on. They utilize online and offline electronic and physical tools so no law is missed. As needed, we work with private investigators, forensic experts and social service experts.
Our Attorneys:
Michael Hebert has well over a decade of practical in court experience in criminal law and court coverage debt collection. Michael graduated from New England School of Law earning his Juris Doctorate in 1997 and was admitted to the practice of law the same year in both the State and Federal Court. Michael’s undergraduate Bachelor’s degree was from Framingham State University in Political Science. He also has an associate’s degree in Criminal Justice. Michael regularly attends continuing legal education to stay current with any changes in the law. He is a member of the Massachusetts Creditors Bar Association, Bar Advocates of Worcester County, Franklin County Bar Association and Bar Advocate Program, Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Finally he occasionally gives lectures on law, most recently on gun laws.
Janel Hebert part time with firm she has traveled around the world three times, living in such remote places as American Samoa and Beijing, China, where she wrote a book which was published and distributed around the world called the "Beijing Guidebook" published by the Foreign Commercial Services in 1993. She plays several musical instruments, having played under Tom Everett at the Harvard University Summer Band with performances in Boston at the Esplinade and Hatch Shell. She gives lectures to local community groups on various topics including, "We're All Sex Offenders Under the New Regulations", "What Legal Documents Do You Need Now That You Are
Married/Have a Child", and "Legally, What Every Parent Should Know Now That Your Child is in Middle School". She's Done volunteer work for the Volunteer Lawyers Service, provides free notary services to elders, served on the board of the PTO for five years and has done grant proposal work.
Referrals:
If there is an area of law we don’t cover, we keep a list of attorneys that we can refer you too.
Experts:
We have worked with a number of experts in various fields. If your case needs an expert and you're willing to pay for the expert’s services, we would be your contact to various experts that would assist us in representing your case. This includes private investigators, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, rehabilitation services, and forensic experts. Not every case needs these services, and we can put on a zealous defense for your with or without an expert.
Coverage Schedule for Sub-Contractor Debt Collection for in Court Substitute Appearance of Counsel.
COVERAGE SCHEDULE & FEES
Bennett and Hebert P.C. provides court coverage services to other law firms. Massachusetts has a large number of District Courts and no one law firm can be everywhere all the time. To assist other firms, we agree to cover debt collection cases in the district court for reasonable fees. Our firm provides attorneys that can cover multiple courts per week.
We have decades of practical in court experience covering these types of cases for dozens of law firms. We professionally, ethically and legally cover these cases so that both you and us are in compliance with the law.
Our services in court include small claims, supplementary process and civil lawsuits. Services include conducting contested magistrate trials, obtaining agreements for judgment, payment plans, confidentially obtaining financial information, negotiating settlements, contempt hearings, motions of every type, getting defaults, capias issued, capias returns and continuances.
We regularly and consistently cover court session in Ayer, Fitchburg, Gardner, Leominster, Orange and Winchendon Courts. If there is ever a day we couldn’t cover we would timely inform your offices. We have trained other coverage attorney’s so that when we are on vacation our schedule is still covered.
In regard to expanding on the schedule we are willing and able to go to other courts but would need to go for more than one case and would need advance notice to see if we can set up availability.
We are interested in expanding our coverage schedule. If the small claims coverage group, civil coverage group or any member firms wanted to give up a session that they no longer cover, Bennett and Hebert would be interested in taking over any court sessions that the groups or firms cut back on covering. If the BMC does add a night session our firm would be willing to pick up that session if enough firms are interested in sending us cases.
Standard Rates:
$15 dollars per case covered per session for obtaining sc/sp defaults, issuing capias or continuing a case.
$35 dollars per case covered per session for sc/sp/cv motions, afj, payment plans, trials, contempt, defendant ability to pay exams, return on capias exams, CMC and PT.
We regularly cover sessions at Ayer, Fitchburg, Gardner, Leominster, Orange and Winchendon District Courts. Call 978-537-3045 for sessions information. E-mail: BennettHebertLawPC@gmail.com
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LEGAL PRACTICES
At Bennett and Hebert P.C. we prefer to set up flat fees instead of hourly. We do this so you know how much the entire case will cost so you can properly budget our services. So instead of charging $150 or more hourly and estimating an amount of time and then you hope we don’t go over, we instead set one or more flat fees with triggering events so you know what the entire case will cost. In order to set up a flat fee we require you to set up an appointment so we can determine the complexity of your case then we can quote you a price for all the work we do as one fee.
The services we provide for the flat fee include, legal research/writing, correspondence, meetings, in and out of court, as needed work to defend the case.
The only other costs would be for expenses, Some examples are court fees, registration fees, hiring constables/sheriffs to serve documents. If you want a private investigator, forensic or other expert you would pay them separately. We would set up the relationship instruct the expert on what to do and you would pay the expert directly yourself. Experts are rarely used but they can be helpful.
Examples:
Consultation: a forty five minute consultation cost is $50.00
Criminal Defense in the State District Court:
This could be any type of charge OUI, DUI, Possession, Distribution, Larceny, Assault, Battery, B and E, Reckless operation, ect. We represent every type of crime you can be accused of in State District Court you're accused of:
To take these types of cases to jury trial we charge a flat fee of $3,500.00 to $4,500.00 based on complexity of case
If the case can be settled short of a Jury trial then the flat fee is $1,500.00 to $2,500.00 based on complexity of case.
Defending a violation of Probation in State District Court fee is $1,000.00 to $2,500.00 based on complexity of case.
At a consultation we would further explain what we do for the flat fee and upon payment sign a contract with you establishing the attorney client relation. To keep our rates this low we expect your reasonable assistance in defending your case. For example if the alleged crime scene is at your home we may need to visit or you might have to take photos for us. We may require reference letters, or information on any witnesses you know, these are just some potential examples.
Reinstate Driver License Challenges:
Registry of Motor Vehicle Hearing are charged at a flat fee of $1,000.00 to $2,000.00
Board of Appeal on MV Policies and Bond at a flat fee of $1,000.00 to $2,000.00
General Practice:
We represent a variety of other areas of law. Representing small businesses, individual people whether you have to sue someone or you are being sued. We handle cases that are in the courts or cases that just need legal documents written and registered. Flat fee vary by type of case.