Hughes Krupica History
For those visitors, clients and friends with a developed and mature attention span, and able to discern that 29 minutes may be well spent learning about the history of the service providers who should like to provide a high quality service to our clients, in a candid and honest manner akin to the content of the video, please kindly view this full version video.
For those visitors who struggle to manage their time or who sincerely have other priorities in life other than watching videos about the history of their lawyers and law firm, we have also created a 50% shorter version of our full version, which does omit some interesting details but nevertheless ‘does the job’, so you can get the gist.
Hughes Krupica - Now
- a Small Medium Enterprise legal services and business consultancy provider
- a modern international company that deals with international and internationally minded clients, either on investment within or into Thailand
- equipped to handle business conflicts with dispute resolution methods and/or litigation
- a company, but with its personality made from its team of international and Thai lawyers and support staff who together aggregate their ideas and actions to aim to deliver a high quality service
- proud to be based in Phuket, with clients across Thailand, including corporate clients in Bangkok and internationally, able to work remotely, efficiently and deliver competitively through virtual and physical meetings
Receiving Services from Hughes Krupica
Know Your Client and Conflict of Interests
When we engage with our clients, in keeping with international standards, we conduct:
- Conflict of Interest Check
- Know Your Client investigations
We operate a hybrid of domestic law and practice on conflicts of interest, but also adopt international standards based on an aggregate of our code of ethics and practice experience. We are aware of the impact or potential impact of a conflict of interest, and we will be candid and direct regarding disclosures.
For Know Your Client checks, we will conduct our own internal checks, but will also require clear identification of the principal(s), behind corporate entities, any agents and representatives and their authority to issue instructions, and copies of basic corporate documents. We also need to know residential addresses, which is the minimum standard we would advise our clients to adhere to when conducting business with other parties.
Scope of Works, Capped Fees and Hourly Rates
We will then establish a scope of works with you, which may be initial or if matters are fairly certain, comprise a full scope. Our team, based on its prior experience of decades of delivering legal services, will then provide a fee quote normally comprising a mixture of capped fees linked to a Maximum Allocated Time, hourly rates, or a combination of both. We will ask for an advance deposit of our fees and expenses/disbursements on account prior to commencing works.
Assignment and Use of Team
We will assign a Lead Engagement Partner and a selection of Senior and Junior team members as appropriate to the tasks set and to manage billing efficiently. You will be aware of who is working on your engagement and we are transparent with regards to our working methods, and the information we provide on our timesheet based bills.
Our Principles
To ensure the financial security of the firm, its stakeholders comprising managers; employees; shareholders; third party suppliers and clients relying upon the integrity of the firm.
To position Hughes Krupica as an SME legal services provider delivering high quality products in specialised distinct practice areas, in an efficient and continuous responsive manner to attract high quality discerning clients and command appropriate premium fees.
1) To implement, sustain and grow a team of professional lawyers, managers, marketing, administrative and other skills staff who benefit from challenging and interesting work, cope with the pressure of business and people, enjoy working with each other and are able to ensure meaningful work is balanced between learning processes, revisiting and sharpening old skills and developing new skills.
2) To maintain respect for all members of the team, on a non-discriminatory basis, and to be generous and kind in dealings whilst remaining professional and improving standards.
3) To value highly clients’ best interests at all times, to remember that client companies comprise people with business needs, human rights and personalities, to balance communications to promote professionalism tempered with empathy avoiding patriarchal or patronising superiority.
4) To maintain self-respect and to deal appropriately with any violations of codes of conduct, bad behaviour or conflict.
To appreciate that Ethics is a complex subject, that there are no right answers to ethics, but universal minimum professional standards which many be stronger than domestic standards are valued highly by others and where possible to respect and maintain integrity, decision making with rationalised and reasoned ethical standards.
To adopt, sustain and continuously develop a logical, orderly, accessible combination weighted heavily towards tech based solutions of storing all client and firm information so that appropriate members of staff, on a graded access basis, can access information and with partner authorisation, clients can access but will be charged for storage of and access to their information.
Our Terms and Conditions
Our engagement with you is a ‘hire of services’ under Thai law. If you have no assets or presence in Thailand, we may opt to use a different legal system to govern our terms with you. However, we do operate our services provision subject to a set of Terms and Conditions which we update from time to time as our company and its experiences with clients evolves in a dynamic manner.
Our full terms and conditions will be issued to you when we issue an engagement proposal, following the Know Your Client and Conflict of Interest Checks.