A contingency fee or contingent fee is common in personal injury lawsuits, because those cases usually involve a monetary value. There is a settlement or a judgment that can be anticipated, and the ...

When Tony Simon left a large national firm to join his brother John at the Simon Law Firm 20 years ago, it was one of the first firms in the country to handle Intellectual Property and commercial ...

Louisiana's highest court has shut down a long‑running fight over who should collect a slice of attorney fees from the Port ...

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Judiciary Law section 474-a, as amended effective July 1, 1985 sets forth a contingency fee schedule and provision for application for increased fee in extraordinary circumstances. In practice, the ...

There's a growing appetite in Big Law to built out contingency practices. Crowell & Moring, Susman Godfrey and Quinn Emanuel have cited contingency work in relation to their financial performances in ...

Taxpayers often hire an attorney on a contingent fee basis. If the recovery is taxable, the attorney fee is deductible. Because of the interaction between regular tax and alternative minimum tax rules ...

The Rules of Professional Conduct — the ethical rules governing the legal profession — define a contingent fee as “a fee for legal services under which compensation is to be contingent in whole or in ...

After a year where his office indicated opposition to contingency fee arrangements, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach will require prospective outside counsel to propose a contingency fee when ...

Uber’s proposed initiative in California would cap contingency fees, making it harder for low-income car accident victims to find lawyers and access court. Eric Mclean via Unsplash Uber wants to lock ...

On its face, the $75 million S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson paid two Columbia law firms to help win a record-setting payment from the federal government over plutonium stored at the Savannah River ...