Letter of Representation and Flat-Fee Agreement
Felon Justice, by and through Attorney Robert L. Root III
Client: ______________________________
Date: 2026-10-13
Dear ______________________________:
This letter confirms that Attorney Robert L. Root III, through Felon Justice, will represent you in the limited matter described below. Felon Justice is the name through which Attorney Root provides these services; Attorney Root is the lawyer responsible for your representation. The attorney-client relationship for this matter begins when this letter is signed by both you and Attorney Root, subject to completion of a conflict check and any other legally required intake review. Please review and sign below if you agree.
Your Selected Service
Premium Federal Restoration — $2,000.00
Up to five hours of attorney consultation/legal review plus document-acquisition help, character-reference guidance, application review, brief narrative guidance, and routine file follow-up during initial processing.
- Up to 5 hours of attorney consultation and legal review
- Federal eligibility, timing, and issue review
- Help identifying, requesting, and organizing required records
- Character-reference guide and practical reference instructions
- Brief strategy and suggestions for the client narrative explaining the case
- Application and supporting-document review
- Routine responses to agency requests and reasonable status follow-up during initial processing
- $500 Pathway Consultation credit if previously paid and documented
Scope of Services
1.- The representation includes up to five hours of attorney consultation and legal review concerning the federal firearm-rights restoration matter; review of eligibility, timing, and known federal issues; assistance identifying, requesting, and organizing reasonably obtainable court, criminal-history, sentence-completion, and supporting records; a guide for character references; brief strategic suggestions for the client's own narrative or case-explanation letter; review of the application and supporting materials; identification of material gaps, inconsistencies, or weak explanations; and routine administrative responses to reasonable Department of Justice requests for clarification or additional information, together with reasonable status follow-up during initial processing. This service is generally designed for matters that do not appear to require a presumptive-disqualifier advocacy strategy.
2.- This service does not include extensive legal research or a deeply crafted advocacy narrative for a presumptive disqualifier, extraordinary-circumstances presentation, state-law restoration or expungement proceedings, litigation, judicial review, appeal, an administrative hearing, preparation of a new application after denial, or legal work beyond the included five-hour attorney consultation/legal-review allocation unless separately agreed in writing. Third-party record providers and government agencies control whether records can be obtained and how quickly they are produced. Neither we nor the government guarantee eligibility, a processing time, a favorable determination, or the removal of any federal or state firearms restriction. You must not acquire or possess a firearm or ammunition based solely on retaining us, purchasing a service, or preparing or filing an application.
Flat Fee and Expenses
3.- The fee for the entire limited scope stated in paragraph 1 is $2,000.00, payable in connection with this engagement. It is a flat fee, not a fee contingent on approval. It covers reasonable and ordinary services within the selected scope, regardless of time spent. The advance payment will be deposited in an attorney client trust account and transferred only as earned through performance of the agreed services. It is not nonrefundable or earned upon receipt. If the representation ends before completion, any unearned portion will be promptly refunded based on the reasonable value of services performed, subject to the prohibition on a clearly excessive fee. For purposes of accounting for work completed upon early termination, Attorney Root's hourly rate is $350.00; this rate does not convert the agreed flat fee into hourly billing or permit charges above the flat fee for work within scope. We will provide an accounting on request and at termination. The total flat fee for Premium Federal Restoration is $2,000. If Client previously paid $500 for Pathway Consultation and that prior payment is documented and applicable to this later engagement, the $500 will be credited toward the $2,000 total fee, leaving a $1,500 balance. The total Premium Federal Restoration fee remains $2,000; the credit reflects the prior Pathway Consultation payment.
4.- The flat fee does not include government charges, record-retrieval charges, fingerprinting, certified copies, postage, or other third-party expenses. We will explain and obtain your authorization before incurring any such expense on your behalf; any advance for expenses will be safeguarded in trust and applied only when incurred. Additional legal work or fees require a new written agreement before that work begins.
Client Cooperation and Decisions
5.- You agree to provide complete and accurate information and requested records promptly, review any analysis, recommendations, application materials, or other work product provided to you for accuracy, and keep us informed of changes to your contact information or circumstances material to the matter. You decide whether to submit any application. We will not knowingly submit or assist in submitting false or misleading information. We will keep you reasonably informed about material developments within the selected scope, respond to reasonable requests for information, and explain matters sufficiently to permit informed decisions. Information relating to your representation will be protected as required by the rules of professional conduct, subject to applicable law and your authorization for disclosures needed to perform the selected service.
Completion and Termination
6.- Unless ended earlier, this limited representation concludes when the included application review and routine initial-processing assistance are complete, or when a final agency decision is received and forwarded to you. We will explain that any judicial review, appeal, new application, separate state proceeding, or other work outside this scope requires a new written agreement. Routine requests within the original initial-processing scope are included subject to the five-hour attorney consultation/legal-review limit described above. You may discharge Attorney Root at any time. Attorney Root may withdraw only as permitted by applicable professional-conduct rules, with reasonable notice and steps reasonably practicable to protect your interests. On termination, we will promptly provide papers and property to which you are entitled, account for funds, and refund any unearned advance fee. Nothing in this letter limits any duty imposed by applicable professional-conduct rules.
If these terms are acceptable, please sign and return a copy of this letter.
Sincerely,
Felon Justice
By: Attorney Robert L. Root III
Attorney signature: ______________________________
Date: ______________________________