The court's decision in A.W. v Mount Holly Bd. Of Ed. is an important reaffirmation that the bargaining power between lawyer and client is often uneven, and as a consequence the fee charged is always ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - Who says contingency fees are only for plaintiffs' firms? Glasscock said Cravath’s $47 million lodestar was not unreasonable, given that Williams’ evidentiary burden was much heavier than ...

Contingency fees are not only confined to personal injury matters. In the midst of the recession and pandemic, some firms are increasingly taking on contingency fee matters in business litigation and ...

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 ...

In today’s litigious society, many class action lawsuits have contingent attorney fee arrangements. Although the reasons for the lawsuits differ—age discrimination, wrongful termination and the ...

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 ...

You can revoke a power of attorney for any reason, but the first step is to notify the person with the power of attorney of your intent to revoke the document. If you've submitted the power of ...

This article is written by Peters and Associates. A contingency fee is an an amount of money an attorney will be paid if and when a case is won. Generally, these fees are a percentage of any recovery ...