Advocate · Legal consultant · Notary
Documents read before any opinion is given. Options — and the cost of each — stated plainly. A written report you can return to. Deadlines tracked, and the client notified of them in time.
01The office
Law Office of Salem Khalaf Al Shammari — Advocacy and Notarization. Advocate, legal consultant and notary in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, licence No. 46813, working scope: Riyadh and Al-Jouf.
The office provides litigation, legal advisory and notarization services: careful reading of the documents, clarity in setting out the options and the procedure, and commitment to deadlines and to notifying the client of them in time.
Declared limits of work
I do not promise my client a judgment. I promise him that his file enters the court complete.
02Services
Eight defined services. Each has its own page setting out the scope, the limits, and what to prepare before work begins.
Representing businesses and individuals in commercial disputes before the competent circuits, from file review to pleadings and follow-up.
Choosing the right vehicle, partner agreements, management decisions, and ordering the relationship between owners before a dispute starts.
Drafting or reviewing a contract before signature: obligations, deadlines, penalties and how a dispute gets resolved.
Turning scattered documents into a coherent claim file, then choosing the shortest route to recovery.
From the enforceable instrument to actually receiving the money: preparing the request, following the procedure, answering enforcement disputes.
Reviewing the contract and the entitlements before a settlement or a claim — for employees and employers alike.
A written legal opinion on a specific question, or representation in a civil dispute, after the documents have been read.
Notarising instruments within the licensed and established scope, with the procedure and documents explained before you attend.
Including marriage contracts — under ma’dhoun licence No. 12058.
Your first step
Choose the situation closest to yours. You will see the service that handles it, the papers to gather and what is worth reading before you write to us.
Your first step
Choose a situation and your first step appears here
Your first step
From the enforceable instrument to actually receiving the money: preparing the request, following the procedure, answering enforcement disputes.
Your first step
Debt collection & financial claims
Turning scattered documents into a coherent claim file, then choosing the shortest route to recovery.
Your first step
Reviewing the contract and the entitlements before a settlement or a claim — for employees and employers alike.
Your first step
Civil matters & legal consultancy
A written legal opinion on a specific question, or representation in a civil dispute, after the documents have been read.
Your first step
Drafting or reviewing a contract before signature: obligations, deadlines, penalties and how a dispute gets resolved.
Your first step
Civil matters & legal consultancy
A written legal opinion on a specific question, or representation in a civil dispute, after the documents have been read.
Your first step
Representing businesses and individuals in commercial disputes before the competent circuits, from file review to pleadings and follow-up.
Commercial courts: jurisdiction, filing & settlement25 questions
Your first step
Notarising instruments within the licensed and established scope, with the procedure and documents explained before you attend.
Your first step
Notarising instruments within the licensed and established scope, with the procedure and documents explained before you attend.
Your first step
Civil matters & legal consultancy
A written legal opinion on a specific question, or representation in a civil dispute, after the documents have been read.
Your first step
Choosing the right vehicle, partner agreements, management decisions, and ordering the relationship between owners before a dispute starts.
Your first step
Civil matters & legal consultancy
A written legal opinion on a specific question, or representation in a civil dispute, after the documents have been read.
This guide only points the way. It does not replace a review of the documents in your case.
03How the work runs
Knowing the stages lets the client see what will happen, what is required of him, and which risks to prepare for.
Parties, documents, the remedy sought, scope and fees — settled before any step is taken.
The legal position, the strengths and weaknesses, and the defences to expect.
Options ranked strongest to weakest, with the cost, the route and the statutory procedural periods set out — not the time to decide, which rests with the court.
Drafting, filing, attendance and negotiation, within the agreed scope.
Stage updates, the next step and its statutory deadline, and an orderly closing of the file.
We do not begin before we know where we are going and what the road costs. The client knows that with us from day one.
04Credentials
Established items are shown under their official names and numbers as issued by the bodies concerned.
Tech ChampionsTech Champions bootcamp — Ministry of Communications and Information Technology — in cooperation with Northern Border University
The credentials page and document images Courses and training
05Articles
The articles are written from the Saudi regulations under their official names. No article number or period is stated before it has been checked against the official source.
A practical playbook for finance directors and collections teams: which papers are enforceable today, when the debtor must be notified, how the deadlines run from filing to attachment, and why a percentage late-payment penalty is not one to rely on.
Read the articleThe amendments have been in force since 19 February 2025, and you will feel them at the first resignation or new contract. Here is what they mean for those who work and those who hire.
Read the articleThe Enforcement Law and its Implementing Regulation took effect in late October 2026. Here is what changed for creditors and debtors, and where the circulating claims go wrong.
Read the articleA penalty clause is binding in principle, but it is not an untouchable number. Here are its limits under the Civil Transactions Law, and what makes one hold up in court.
Read the articleSome of these rules apply only in Riyadh and some cover every city in the Kingdom. Know where you stand, as tenant or landlord, before you sign a renewal or send a notice.
Read the articleAn enforcement dispute concerns the validity of the enforcement instrument, the conditions for enforcing it, or the court's jurisdiction to enforce it. A disagreement over whether the debt is owed at all goes to the body competent to hear the underlying relationship. What counts is the substance of the objection, not whether it is labelled procedural or substantive.
Not automatically. Enforcement continues unless the body hearing the dispute or claim orders a stay. A stay of proceedings does not release assets already attached unless the order says so.
It can be. Describing a note as security does not, on its own, invalidate it. Whether it is payable, and how to challenge it, depends on its terms, whether the debt has fallen due, the contract it secures and the amounts actually owed.
File a proof-of-payment request on Najiz, if you meet the service conditions, and link the receipt to the debt being enforced. A creditor who is paid outside the enforcement process must close the request within one working day of being paid. If the payment itself is disputed, take the appropriate court route.
No. Maintenance is assessed on the circumstances of the person maintained and the means of the person paying. Knowing the salary or the number of children is not enough to predict the amount a court will award.
Yes, if circumstances change. As a rule, a claim to increase or reduce maintenance will not be heard until a year has passed since the maintenance judgment, unless the court finds exceptional circumstances. Any increase or reduction runs from the date of the judgment that orders it.
07Contact
The fastest channel is WhatsApp on the number below. Messages are read and reviewed before a reply, and the reply sets out the appropriate step and the scope of the service.
Three short steps build a tidy WhatsApp message. Nothing is stored on this site and nothing is sent anywhere — the message opens in WhatsApp on your own device and you are the one who presses send.
Sending the message does not mean an engagement has been accepted or that work has started. It is reviewed and you receive a reply setting out the appropriate step and the scope of the service.
Or message the number directly: 0558987102
