With a note from the Studies Office, the National Council of Forensic has reinterpreted the norm introduced by the law n. 124/2017 (Law "Competition") which, as noted, has introduced, for freelancers, the obligation to release to the customer, upon taking office, a written estimate, specifying that lawyers can count in fact, on ad hoc rules, which are an exception to the general rule of the obligation. Article 13 of the professional law (law 247/2012) does not speak of "preventive", but a written communication of the foreseeable cost of the service to "the one who gives the task".

The National Council forensic has therefore clarified that lawyers are required to communicate to their customers, even after being appointed by their own defenders - and therefore also after the formal assumption of the legal role conferred - exclusively the costs of their performance. A communication, therefore, that can be subsequent, and not necessarily preventive as initially considered, even by the National Council of Forensic, which in the aftermath of the competition decree had also proposed on its own website some schemes of a written estimate.