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d la_� CENTRALIZED ACCOUNTINO DEPARTMENT. TAX I.D. NUMBER: 91 -0591206 Disbursements and Other Charges In the course of performing legal services for you, it may be necessary to make payments to third parties for various services. Examples include messenger and courier charges, filing and recording fees, court reporters and transcription costs, expert and other witness fees, charges for outside consultants and research services, and travel expenses. You are responsible for these third -party charges. However, for administrative ease, Perkins Coie LLP may advance payment to the third -party provider and include the charge on our invoice to you, with no markup for handling. We will retain and not allocate to clients relatively insignificant discounts for prompt payment or volume usage. We will also charge you for certain internal services that we provide in connection with our legal services. As noted below, through long -term contracts with a computer research vendor (LEXIS- NEXIS) and a long-distance telephone carrier, we receive discounted rates in exchange for guaranteed payment, usage or other obligations undertaken at our risk. This allows us to charge our clients for LEXIS -NEXIS services and most long- distance telephone calls at rates discounted below standard rates for these services. However, the payments that we receive from clients for these services may exceed our total payments to the vendors. This excess is used to partially offset the costs we incur for related equipment and personnel and the risks we assume in entering into these contracts. Specific internal costs are currently charged at the following rates: 1. Photocopying, Printing and Facsimile. In our U.S. offices, clients are charged ten cents per page for laser printing and photocopying. These charges are higher in our non -U.S. offices. There is no charge for facsimiles sent or received, other than any long- distance telephone charges. 2. Computer Research. There is no charge to clients for the use of the firm's internal work product retrieval system. Clients are charged for computer - assisted research on outside sources at the vendor's actual rates to us except that I XIS -NEXIS and other research services for which we have negotiated significant volume discounts are charged at 75% of the vendor's standard rates. 3. Telecommunications. We do not charge for local calls or for any electronic mail communications. In the United States, where we have been able to negotiate volume discounts, we share that discount with clients by charging direct-dial long - distance calls at 80% of the AT &T tariff for direct-dial long- distance calls, plus applicable taxes. In our non -U.S. offices, long - distance calls are charged at the carrier's tariff for direct-dial calls, plus applicable taxes. Credit card calls are charged at our actual discounted cost. 4. Mail/Messengers. In our larger offices, firm messengers may be used whenever appropriate to guarantee quality and reduce delivery time. Charges for such internal messengers are equal to or below rates charged by outside messengers for similar services. We do not charge for regular mail. Bulk mailings, packages and special postal services are charged at our actual cost. 5. Overtime. Clients are charged for staff overtime, meals and transportation only when (a) the client specifically requests after -hours effort or (b) the nature of the work necessitates overtime, and such work could not have been done during normal work hours. 6. Document Imaging and Database Support. Certain matters, particularly large -scale litigation, may require special document imaging and optical character recognition ( "OCR ") services. Clients are charged 15 cents per page for document imaging and 25 cents per page for OCR Clients requiring these special technical services may also be charged for storage space on the firm's computer servers. We add a late payment charge of 12% per annum (or such lower rate as required by applicable law) to account balances not paid within thirty days of the invoice date. If we are required to take any action to collect fees or disbursements due us, we will also be entitled to recover the reasonable value of our attorneys' foes and other costs of collection.