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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article examines whether lawyers can ethically charge contingency fees for helping clients seek pardons. While generally banned in criminal cases, some opinions suggest they might be acceptable ...