contingent fee
noun[C]
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contingent fee
It may be an hourly, flat-rate orcontingentfee.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In rare cases, thecontingentfeeis equal to or more than 100% of the recovered damages.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Most jurisdictions require contingent fees to be reasonable, resulting in a typicalcontingentfeeof 33-45% of any eventual recovery.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Acontingentfeeis an attorney's fee which is reduced or not charged at all if the court case is lost by the attorney.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thecontingentfeehas been described as the poor mans key to the courthouse.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Acontingentfeeis a percentage of the monetary judgment or settlement.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The typicalcontingentfeearrangement provides for the lawyer to retain one-third of any recovery.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The cost was $50 a session and a $5contingentfee.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thecontingentfeemay be split among several firms who have contractual arrangements amongst themselves for referrals or other assistance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One is thecontingentfeefor plaintiffs to counsel and the other is the civil jury, which, happily, we have abolished in these cases.
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