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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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"The writing requirement's purpose to avoid misunderstanding is well illustrated here," the opinion said. "As the judge found, the situation was 'very unfortunate' for plaintiff and defendants, as ...

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 Texas Supreme Court held that, while permitted in certain limited circumstances, a school district cannot pay a contingent fee to an attorney to litigate its challenge to increase the appraised ...

Ashwani Prabhakar writes: While most practitioners rarely worry about the contingency fee arrangements they have with their clients, Surrogate's Court practitioners should be aware of the potential ...

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 ...

Students of D&O litigation know that the plaintiffs’ bar works on a contingency basis. While some may bemoan this fact, the structure does create a set of clear incentives for rational economic actors ...