Sentences with phrase «contingency fee counsel»

Pennsylvania and U.S. Chambers file amicus brief arguing counties may not use contingency fee counsel to pursue cause of action to enforce 911 Act

Not exact matches

«Sher Edling is representing San Mateo County on a contingency fee basis, as is true for most attorneys in cases like this,» San Mateo County deputy counsel Margaret Tides said.

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Justice Belobaba suggests that contingency arrangements should be presumptively upheld, and granted counsel's request for a one - third fee award.

The implications for the bar is that where a lawyer charges a contingency fee as a percentage of a settlement which does not have a relationship to the work done, the difficulty of the file, the skill involved, or the experience of counsel, they should be aware that the fee may come under scrutiny and found to be unreasonable given the professional relationship between the lawyer and client.

Ninth Circuit rejects federal due process challenge to district attorney's use of contingency - fee counsel to enforce California Unfair Competition Law

(i) intended activities: eg, disclosure (if appropriate, showing comparative electronic and paper methodology), preparation of witness statements, obtaining experts» reports, mediation or any other steps which are deemed appropriate to the particular case; (ii) identifiable contingencies, eg, specific disclosure application or resisting applications made or threatened by an opponent; and (iii) disbursements, in particular court fees, counsel's fees and any mediator or expert fees.»

Pursuant to a contingency fee agreement entered into with the representative plaintiffs, Class Counsel are eligible to recover 30 % of the settlement fund, plus HST and disbursements.

The prospect of a full indemnity award should also encourage counsel to represent defendants on a contingency fee basis, where the defendants may otherwise not have sufficient means to retain counsel...

Led by the Association of Corporate Counsel's «ACC Value Challenge,» corporate America is increasingly demanding that their outside law firms abandon the entrenched, historic, «cost - plus,» «billable hour» economic pricing model in favor of «Alternative Fee Arrangements» («AFAs») and other «value billing» approaches (e.g., non-hourly pricing arrangements such as «fixed fee,» «contingency,» or «hybrid» fee arrangementFee Arrangements» («AFAs») and other «value billing» approaches (e.g., non-hourly pricing arrangements such as «fixed fee,» «contingency,» or «hybrid» fee arrangementfee,» «contingency,» or «hybrid» fee arrangementfee arrangements).

With 15 years of litigation experience, personal injury attorney Joseph A. «Tony» Mesa, III from Mesa Law Firm could provide helpful counsel and aggressive representation on an affordable contingency fee basis.

[11] Counsel is seeking costs of one - third of the damages awarded in the AB claim and the tort claim pursuant to the contingency fee agreements signed by Claude Pothier on August 1, 2006, and January 30, 2014.

The Database is used by both private Law Firms and Corporate Counsel worldwide to effectively price the legal services offered or received either in Hourly Rates or Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs) such as Fixed Fee, Transaction Fees, Fixed + Hourly Rate, Collars, Caps, Contingencies and Bonus pricing schemes.

On the contrary, far from dis - incentivizing the plaintiff's bar to take on risky medical malpractice or personal injury cases on a contingency fee basis, the decision in Batalla should reassure counsel that the prospect for reward is well worth the risks assumed.

The representative plaintiffs agreed in a document called a «contingency fee agreement» to pay Class Counsel up to 1/3 of any money received in the lawsuit (whether from a settlement or after trial).

Fee caps also handcuff state Attorneys General, many of whom are underfunded and understaffed and / or can't hope to take on big industries without hiring outside counsel under a contingency arrangement.

Often times, government will aggressively litigate until the end, only to tell the appellate court that fees to a successful party were excessive or multipliers unjustified despite the contingency risk absorbed by the winning party's counsel showing great acumen to prevail in the matter.

Class counsel have been retained on a contingency basis, which effectively means that fees and disbursements will only be paid to Class counsel in the event of success.

The Lawyers for the Class («Class counsel») have entered into a contingency fee agreement with the representative plaintiffs.

Under the contingency fee agreement, Class counsel are to be paid a contingency fee of 33 1/3 % of the amount recovered in the Class Action, but that amount remains subject to the approval of the court before it can be paid.

If a major corporation cheats a thousand of its workers out of a thousand dollars each, very few of them will decide it is worth the hassle and expense of a major lawsuit, and virtually no lawyer will be willing to take such a low dollar case on a contingency fee basis — meaning that the plaintiffs will have to pay more for legal counsel than they are likely to win in the end.

In the first segment of this show, they reveal their most respected defense counsel, discuss the traits of successful trial attorneys, as well as evaluate the contingency fee model.

And now, the same kind of corporate attacks have been launched against underfunded and underfinanced state Attorneys General who hire outside counsel on a contingency fee basis.

Today, half the states in this country have some type of law dealing with contingency fees and most block victims» ability to hire counsel.

The report notes, «Half the states in this country have some type of law dealing with contingency fees [and most] do indeed block victims» ability to hire counsel.»

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