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This is great advice. I just wanted to make the typical legal fees clear to keep things realistic. I'm not sure if it's the same with this type of case, but fo
by jroes 14y ago
This is great advice.
I just wanted to make the typical legal fees clear to keep things realistic. I'm not sure if it's the same with this type of case, but for personal injury claims, the typical lawyer contract entitles the attorney to 1/3 of the dollars won plus fees.
Of course, 2/3 of 10k is still > 0.
- patio11 14y agoLawyers typically work personal injury on a contingency basis because they have a high percentage win ratio and because, all things being equal, the person injured is likely to be poor. There may well be lawyers who take employment law cases on a contingency basis, but there will also be ones who simply hire out their services in formal letterwriting on an hourly basis, broken down into six minute increments. That is, overwhelmingly, the most common billing arrangement in the profession. You might even find a lawyer willing to do that and defer the payment until after the check had been received, but I do not anticipate the legal bill here being a prohibitive amount of money for an American professional.
- cncool 14y ago"Of course, 2/3 of 10k is still > 0." Depends on the language.