Sentences with phrase «potential award fee»

This reserve shall not exceed 15 percent of the total base fee and potential award fee or $ 100,000, whichever is less.

(b) After the contractor has been paid 85 percent of the base fee and potential award fee, the Government may withhold further payment of the base fee and award fee until a reserve is set aside in an amount that the Government considers necessary to protect its interest.

Not exact matches

Just because you are with a claims handler, even a no win no fee, it is unlikely to mitigate the risks of claiming — in other words that you can lose your fee and if you're not in the small claims track there is a potential to have costs awarded against you.

Given the potential to book Star Alliance partners with no fuel surcharges and other awards with reasonable fees, I think Asiana should be on your radar.

However, such awards can create a potential for conflicts of interest because they allow class counsel to reap large fees regardless of whether class members were adequately compensated, according to the cert petition.

If you are going to litigate, you must be prepared to lose, and while you may not be able to control an award of damages because that amount is determined by the trier of fact, the ability to control your potential liability with regard to the opposing party's attorneys» fees and costs is squarely in your hands when you are drafting a contract.

Intended as an informational meeting for the family, one of our personal injury attorneys will discuss the particulars of your case, estimate the potential award you can recover, advise your next steps to be taken, and if our services are warranted, explain the fees we charge.

It also helps eliminate the incentive to litigate a meritorious claim with a relatively nominal amount of damages because it simply does not make economic sense for a party's attorneys» fees and costs to exceed the potential award of damages.

Two lessons are learned in this case: (1) the winning party must demonstrate that the losing party would have recovered under the contractual fee clauses vis - à - vis winning party in order to be entitled to a potential fee recovery; and (2) a writ of mandate is the exclusive mechanism to obtain review of a lis pendens expungement or associated fee award, rather than an appeal.

On the other hand, when people work with experienced injury attorneys who know dog bite law in New Orleans and Louisiana, even after you factor attorney fees in, you'll walk away with as much as 80 -LCB- d37eae5b8410ed8fb22098597e6ecfa689963c7e8a6548fdf24949bed3e82123 -RCB- of your potential award.

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Indeed, really bad behavior (or perhaps better said, «amazingly grossly negligent» behavior) continues — and although the severest sanctions may no longer be available, parties and their lawyers need to recognize that the price can still be very high, both from an evidentiary perspective, as well from potential fees awarded arising from that bad conduct.

In today's environment, a single major employment dispute can result in the erosion of substantial assets because of legal fees and a potential jury award.