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 ...

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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 ...

Judiciary Law section 474-a, as amended effective July 1, 1985 sets forth a contingency fee schedule and provision for application for increased fee in extraordinary circumstances. In practice, the ...

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 ...

There's a growing appetite in Big Law to built out contingency practices. Crowell & Moring, Susman Godfrey and Quinn Emanuel have cited contingency work in relation to their financial performances in ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif., January 24, 2025 – Abogados Fuertes – a multilingual personal injury law firm serving all of California -- has announced that it will be charging clients solely on contingency ...

Though sometimes overshadowed, tort reform continues to be an issue worthy of state lawmakers’ attention. Studies have consistently found that frivolous tort litigation reduces economic opportunities, ...

BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced a $100,000 joint disposition agreement on Friday with a lobbying firm that allegedly profited from an inappropriate ...

Uber’s proposed initiative in California would cap contingency fees, making it harder for low-income car accident victims to find lawyers and access court. Eric Mclean via Unsplash Uber wants to lock ...