Sentences with phrase «type of success fee»

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«The success and fairness of any fixed fee regime will need to reflect the variety, complexity and intrinsic cost of running many of these types of claims.

The Court of Appeal in Simmons v Castle, held that the level of damages in certain types of claims should be increased by 10 % after 1 April 2013, to reflect the fact that claimants would no longer be able to recover success fees and after the event insurance premiums from Respondents in the civil courts...

Citing Mardirossian & Associates, Inc. v. Ersoff, 153 Cal.App.4 th 257, 272 (2007), the Fourth District in Farina set forth the nonexhaustive factors for evaluating the reasonableness of attorney's fees for purposes of quantum meruit recovery: (1) the nature of the litigation; (2) the difficulty of the litigation; (3) the amount involved; (4) the skilled required in its handling; (5) the actual skill employed; (6) the attention given; (7) the success or failure of the attorney's efforts; and (8) the attorney's skill and learning, including his / her age and experience in the particular type of work demanded.

In both mediation and collaborative divorce, there is the potential that the parties may fail to come to an agreement; however, more often than not, a couple who commits to this type of negotiation experience success with these methods, feeling more confident in their agreement, happier in the results and having spent less in legal fees.

The FTC and CFPB's investigation accused the companies of four types of «egregious» behavior: Illegally collecting advance fees before obtaining a loan modification; inflating their success rates in obtaining loan modifications; duping consumers into thinking they were getting legal representation; and making false promises.