Flat fee
One number, stated in writing before the work begins.
When it fitsThe document or deliverable defines the scope, so the firm can carry the efficiency risk.
Practice Areas
Five practice groups. One discipline.
From a custody dispute to a structured financing.
Kynigos advises individuals, families, businesses, and institutions across the District of Columbia—26 kinds of matters organized into five practice groups. The matters differ; the discipline does not: a defined scope, a number in writing, and a fee shaped to the outcome it serves.
Family & Personal
The matters closest to home—divorce, children, and what you leave behind. Staged pricing keeps the hardest decisions yours, not the meter's.
Family Law in depthUncontested and contested divorce, separation agreements, and the negotiation that decides how both go. Each stage—strategy, filings, settlement—gets its own fixed number before it starts.
Custody and visitation arrangements, child support, and modifications when circumstances change. Priced by the stage, decided by you.
An agreement drafted or reviewed while it is still easy—clear terms, full disclosure, and a number fixed before the drafting starts.
Wills, revocable trusts, powers of attorney, and health-care directives—an estate plan scoped as a defined package, not an open file.
Counsel for personal representatives and trustees working through a DC estate—filings, notices, distributions, and the questions in between.
Work & Employment
What you sign, what you leave with, and what you are still allowed to do next. Most of it is document work—priced flat, before you commit.
Professional Contract Review in depthThe firm's posted product for physicians, dentists, executives, and other professionals: a full redline, market analytics on the offer, and a call to walk through every change.
Offer letters, employment agreements, and compensation terms—reviewed or negotiated before you sign, while the leverage still exists.
When a role ends: what the severance package actually says, what you are waiving, and what can still be negotiated.
DC bans most non-competes outright. The review tells you whether yours is one of them—and what the non-solicit and confidentiality terms still reach.
When a firing crosses a legal line, the matter is built around the outcome—a fixed base with a success component tied to the recovery, where permitted.
Responding to board complaints and license proceedings—the response, the hearing, the resolution—priced stage by stage.
Business & Corporate
From formation to exit: the agreements a business runs on, the deals that change it, and the disputes that test it.
Entity selection, formation, operating agreements, and bylaws—the governance documents that prevent the disputes lawyers usually get paid to clean up.
Drafting, review, and negotiation of the agreements a business runs on—services, supply, licensing, NDAs, and the terms buried in all of them.
Buying or selling a business—letter of intent through closing, diligence, purchase agreements, and the negotiation between. The fee is sized to the transaction, not the timesheet.
Partner admissions and exits, buy-sell agreements, and practice buyouts—including for physicians and dentists leaving or joining a group.
Strategy behind the scenes or representation at the table for a negotiation already in motion—scoped to the round, not the relationship.
Demand letters, negotiated resolutions, and settlement agreements. Escalation is your decision at every stage—each one priced before it begins.
Real Estate & Housing
Property bought, leased, defended, and recovered—on either side of the landlord-tenant table.
Landlord-Tenant in depthContract review, negotiation, and closing support for residential and commercial purchases—before the earnest money is at risk.
Leases drafted, reviewed, and negotiated before signature—term, escalations, repair obligations, and the exit rights everyone forgets to read.
Possession actions, DC Landlord-Tenant Branch filings, hearings, and lease enforcement—a fixed fee paired with a success component.
Notice defects, procedural defenses, and negotiated outcomes for tenants facing eviction. The firm's upside is the result, not the number of hearings.
Capital Markets & Finance
Institutional work from counsel who spent a decade on the principal side—opinions that close deals, and documents negotiated like the money is real.
Capital Markets in depthDC-law opinions for institutional lenders and funds—CRE loans, SFR mortgages, preferred equity, LLC membership interests—at a flat fee per opinion.
Loan agreements, intercreditor and security agreements, and preferred equity documents—negotiated and papered per transaction.
Acquisition, bridge, and construction financing—term sheet through closing, for lenders and borrowers alike.
Warehouse lines, loan participations, and structured credit arrangements—documented by counsel who has sat inside the structures.
Fund documents, side letters, and management arrangements—reviewed and negotiated for managers and the investors across from them.
Fee Design
The fee is an instrument.
Different matters carry different objectives, different uncertainty, and different incentives. Kynigos designs the fee around all three—four shapes cover nearly everything the firm takes on, and the engagement letter states which one applies to yours.
Staged fixed fees
Each phase priced on its own; you decide whether to proceed.
When it fitsDisputes and negotiations, where uncertainty arrives one stage at a time.
Fixed + success
A fixed base plus a component earned on the outcome.
When it fitsMatters with a winnable result, where the firm's upside should be yours.
Quoted per matter
Scoped and priced in writing once the matter is defined.
When it fitsTransactions and bespoke engagements, sized to the deal rather than the clock.
Get Started
Start with a conversation
A free consultation scopes the matter and gives you a straight answer—including “you don’t need a lawyer for this.”
Kynigos Law Firm, PLLC is licensed in the District of Columbia only. Matters outside DC are referred to local counsel. Fee structures are confirmed in the engagement letter for your specific matter.