What is a Contingent Fee Agreement?
Personal Injury cases are handled on a Contingent Fee Basis. This means that there are no up-front costs made by the client and we are only paid after a settlement. If your case never reaches a settlement, you still pay nothing.
We know that Contingent Fee Agreements, also known as our Attorney Client Agreement, can sometimes be very difficult to understand. Our rate is 1/3% of the total settlement plus costs. Costs include items or services which are necessary to further your case and obtain a settlement. Some examples of these types of costs are New Case Filing Fees, Service of Summons Fees, Certified Mail, Medical Record Requests, Alias Summons, Special Process Service, Depositions, and Expert Witnesses, just to name a few. (Note: This list is not inclusive of all the possible costs.)
Sometimes we get your case from a referring attorney. The referring attorney is paid a referral fee which comes out of our fee. They are also allowed to collect their costs incurred while they were handling your case previously. This may cause confusion with some clients who may believe a referring attorney also gets 1/3% of a given settlement. That is not the case. Any referral fee is paid out of our 1/3%, which means when everything is said and done, we split the total Attorney's Fees 2/3 to our firm, and 1/3 to the referring firm.
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