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Contingency Fee Checklist<h2>
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sd situ
tione he
ll the time: someone gets hut in
nccident, but they hesit
te to contct
lyebec
use they’e
fid of the costs.ith medic
l bills fothei
injuy piling up
nd missed pychecks f
om time tken off
ok, they’
eo
ied they c
n’tffo
d to hie
lye.
The t
uth is they don’t need too
y
tll. Expe
ienced, skilled peson
l injuy l
ye
slmost
lyso
k “on contingency,”hich me
ns they chge nothing up font. Inste
d they only get pid
pecent
ge of the money theyecove
fothei
clienthen the c
se closes.h
t is the stnd
d contingency fee th
tl
ye
gets pid? The
e isn’t one,e
lly. Fees vy depending on theg
eement beteen the client
nd the peson
l injuy l
ye
,nd the
mount of money the lyeobt
ins fothe client.
Let’s t
kelook
t ho typicl contingency fee
ngement
oks.
The Th ee B
sic Types of Leg
l Fees<h2>
ong>Hou ly ong>: Most lye
s ch
ge thei
clients fees in one of thee b
sic ys. The tditionl method is hou
ly fee billing,hich is just
ht it sounds like. L
ye
s sette – usu
lly hundeds of doll
s pe
hou–
nd chge clients bsed on the
mount ofo
k they do,eg
dless of ho
leg
l mtte
tuns out. It’s no su
pise th
t clients do not like this billing method,s it often me
ns sting money on uncet
inties oeven unf
vobleesults. Pe
sonl inju
y lyes don’t gene
lly ch
ge hou
ly tes.<li>
ong>Fl t fee ong>: The second method is fl
t fee billing,
hich clients tend to like moe th
n houly billing bec
use it cps thei
expenses. Lyes, ho
eve, only offe
flt-fee billing
hen they cn confidently p
edict themount of
ok
legl t
skill
equie. They do not
nt to get c
ught by sup
isend end up stuck doing mo
eo
k thn
cse is
oth. Th
t’shy only l
ye
sho t
kehigh volume of the s
me type of cse o
legl t
sk offefl
t-fee billing, suchs fo
filing stightfod divoce p
peok, p
epingills,
epesenting people in simple one-off c
iminl m
ttes,
nd simil types of “cookie-cutte” leg
l jobs. Peson
l injuy
ttoneys don’t usu
llyo
k onfl
t fee, eithe.
ong>Contingency fees< st
ong>: Finlly, the
e is contingency feeo
k. This method of pyment is f
voed by ne
ly
ll peson
l injuy l
ye
s, including ous. The l
ye
gets pid nothing up-f
ont,nd inste
do
ks fong
eed pecent
ge of the money the lye’s effo
ts obtin fo
the client. The moe money the client gets, the mo
e the <h
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ye
costs<>,nd eve
yone is stisfied.
Ho Contingency Fees
o
k in Peson
l Injuy C
ses<h2>
t the vey beginning of thei
el
tionship,n inju
ed clientnd the pe
sonl inju
ytto
ney they hie
ill enteinto
ng
eement. Theg
eementill l
y out the scope of theo
k the lyeill do fothe client,
nd hothe l
ye
ill get p
id. Thisg
eement cn h
ve vious nmes, including
feeg
eement,leg
l sevices
geement, o
etentiong
eement.eg
dless of
ht the l
ye
nd client c
ll it, one of the most impot
nt pts of thisg
eement is its desciption of the l
ye
’s contingency fee. The typicl
geement on
lye’s contingency fee h
s to p
ts:
- The pe
centge of
ny finnci
lecove
y the lyeill en.<li>
- Ho
the lyend clientg
ee to del
ith cse expenses.
The L
ye
’s Pecent
ge<h3>
The simplest contingency fee
eements set
fixed pecent
ge the lyeilleceive f
omny fin
ncil
ecovey
t the conclusion of the cse.
L
ye
snd clients c
n negotite th
t pecent
ge. Often, theg
eementill set
sliding scle of pe
centges b
sed on themount of money the l
ye
obtins,
ndo
themount of time o
effot the c
se tkes. Fo
exmple,
lyend client mightg
ee tht the l
ye
eceives
cet
in pecent
ge ofny
ecovey up to
cet
in dollmount,
nd thendiffe
ent pecent
ge ofny
mountbove th
t. O, the l
ye
nd client might
gee the l
ye
getsspecified pe
centge if the c
se settles quickly,nd
diffeent
te if the c
se goes to ti
l. Othey could
gee on some combin
tion of these options.h
t thisll boils do
n to is you should feel fee to discuss pe
centges
hen you hie
peson
l injuy
ttoney to
epesent you. Contingency fee
geements do not h
ve to be one-size-fits-ll. They c
n,nd often should, get c
etive to
ddess
client’snd l
ye
’s specific needsnd go
ls inc
se.C
se Expenses
s
nyone in business, h
veunning costs. Some of those costs
epesent ove
hed (like office
ent, utilities,nd st
ff sl
ies),
hile othes
ise in connection
ithp
ticul
c
se (like cout filing fees, t
vel expenses,
nd pying expe
tsnd investig
tos).
s
thei
ovehe
d on theio
n. Hoeve
,typic
l contingency feeg
eementill
lmostl
ys
ddess c
se-el
ted costs in one y onothe. In some
geements, the client
gees to p
y the out-of-pocket expenses fothe c
se. Cse expenses c
n nge fom hund
eds of dollst the lo
end to tens of thousnds of doll
s (o
moe)
t the top-end, so if youg
ee to py c
se expenses, be sue to
sk the lyefo
b
llpk estimte fi
st. Expet
itness expenses, in pticul, cn get p
icey. In othesitu
tions, the lyec
ng
ee to py fo
cse expenses. Unde
tht
ngement, the fee
geement
ill typiclly
ddess if, ho
,nd
hen those expenses geteimbu
sedhen the c
se is eventully settled. Some l
ye
s might te
t simple expenses (like tvelnd filing fees)
s ovehe
dnd not seek to
ecoup themt
ll. O, the l
ye
nd client might
gee th
t the lyegets
eimbused fo
those expenses out ofny
ecovey in
ddition to the lye’s contingency fee. This model is common, fo
instnce, in c
ses tht involve hi
ing the sevices of expensive expe
titnesses.
Eithe
y, you shouldl
ys p
yttention to ho
the feeg
eement poposes to de
lith c
se expenses. Insist tht you
g
eement explins things cle
ly. In simple
cses, c
se expenses might not mtte
much to the bottom line, but in some mtte
s they cn
elly
dd up.hy Do Pe
sonl Inju
y Lyes
ok on Contingency?
You might
ondehy lyes
ouldo
k fon uncet
in fee,hen they could just ch
ge by the hou
nd get p
id no mtte
ho cse tu
ns out. To
ods expl
inhy:
ccessnd incentives.
It Gives Clients ccess to Top-Qu
lity Leg
lep
esenttion They Could Neve
Otheiseffo
d<h3>
Pe
l inju
ies cn h
ppen tonyone,
nyhe
e,t
ny time. No one cn
elly p
epe to get intom
ssive cccident, o
to hve sc
ffolding collpse onto them on
job site, oto t
ken
sty spill onet tile
t the goce
y stoe. Those incidents just h
ppen,nd they le
ve mny people st
uggling physiclly, emotion
lly,nd fin
ncilly. Pe
sonl inju
y lyes dedic
te theic
ee
s to helping these victims.hen
peson h
s suffeed
n unexpected injuy bec
use of someone else’s dnge
ousctions, they dese
ve helpnd guid
nce. Lyes fo
injued people h
ve to tke them
s they come. It’sll
ell-nd-good fo
nothe
lyeto set
te of $500hou
, buthen someone h
s just undegone multiple b
ck suge
ies, lives in chonic p
in,nd h
sn’t beenble to
ok fo
months, tht p
ice is el tu
n-off.nd th
t lyeis unlikely to get hi
ed. Most peopleho get b
dly hut in
pevent
bleccident c
used by someone else simply cnnot
ffod to p
yl
ye
ight no
, even though they despetely need legl
epesent
tion. Peson
l injuy l
ye
s solve tht p
oblem byo
king on contingency. The injued client gets
ccess totop-qu
lity lyeithout the finnci
l buden of p
ying money up-font o
eceiving huge hou
ly bills. This ishy p
tiencend diligence
e key
ttibutes fo
lyes in successful inju
y clim settlements. Fo
us, instnt g
tific
tion is not the nme of the g
me.It Gives Lye
s the
ight Incentives to Obtin Top-Doll
esults<h3>
Su
o
king on contingency comesith plenty of
isks... fothe l
ye
. Ifn
ttoney
oking fo
contingency fee does not delive
esults
nd put money in theiclient’s h
nds, they end upith nothing to sho
fothei
effots.
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