Not all legal work happens in a courtroom. Drafting a contract, writing an opinion, or sitting in a consultation are out-of-court services priced under Tar. br. 75–81 of the Advokatska tarifaThe lawyers' tariff of the bar association, used in both Serbia and Montenegro. In Serbia it is a point-value (poen) scale (Tarifa o nagradama i naknadama troškova za rad advokata, “Sl. glasnik RS” 43/2023 i 56/2025, čl. 23 Zakona o advokaturi); in Montenegro it is a direct-euro scale (Advokatska tarifa AKCG, “Sl. list CG” 132/2025, čl. 15 st. 2 Zakona o advokaturi). In both it sets reference lawyer fees per procedural action — a semi-binding default, not a mandatory floor.Glossary → — and because no court is seized, no state court fee applies at all. That single fact is the defining feature of this group: the calculator shows the lawyer fee only, and deliberately hides the state-fee block, because there is no filing, no docket, and nothing to pay the court. The two case types here use different fee mechanics from litigation — one is value-based (drafting), the other is purely per-hour (consultation).
Contract / document drafting (sastavljanje isprava)
Drafting a contract or other legal document (sastavljanje isprava) — a sale, a lease, a settlement, a statute, a power of attorney. The tariff offers two routes for value-based instruments (the Tar. br. 13 scale or 2.5% of the asset value), with a statutory floor; Tarifo displays the conservative Tar. br. 13 route with that floor.
You instruct counsel to draft when an agreement needs to be put into enforceable legal form — typically before a transaction closes, not after a dispute starts.
Lawyer fee — Tar. br. 75 / Tar. br. 76. The Tar. br. 13 point scale on the asset value, with a statutory minimum of 550 poenaThe tariff point of the Serbian Advokatska tarifa — one poen = 50,00 RSD (čl. 15, as amended by 56/2025). Each procedural action is awarded a number of points (poena), and the fee is the point count multiplied by the poen value, plus 20 % PDV.Glossary → = 27.500 RSD net; a non-value document takes the flat figure. State court fee — none. Drafting is a pre-litigation service, not a court filing — the calculator shows no court fee.
Compute this case in the calculatorConsultation / conference (per hour)
Legal advice and conferences (pravni savet, konferencija) — a meeting, a written opinion, or a working session with the client. Unlike litigation, this is priced by time: a flat point figure for each commenced hour of conference under Tar. br. 79, with the advice minimum of Tar. br. 78 folded in.
You instruct counsel for advice whenever you need a professional reading of a legal question before deciding whether (or how) to act — often the first step before any litigation or transaction.
Lawyer fee — Tar. br. 78 i Tar. br. 79. 300 poena = 15.000 RSD net per commenced hour of conference (the advice minimum of 200 poena is the floor for a short opinion). Enter the number of hours and the calculator returns the figure × 50,00 RSD, plus 20% PDV. State court fee — none. Advice is a pre-litigation service, so no court fee applies.
Compute this case in the calculatorSerbia’s Advokatska tarifa is the Serbian Bar Association tariff — a default and cost-recovery reference, not a binding minimumA tariff floor a court could once not go below. Several EU jurisdictions abandoned binding minimums after CJEU rulings; where that has happened, the same figures now serve only as reference values.Glossary →; under čl. 4 st. 2 a written agreement may set the fee lower (but not below 50% of the tariff) or higher. Out-of-court services carry no state court fee at all, because no court is seized. See the methodology page for the full encoding rules.