How Contingent Fee Contracts Work

Injury & Malpractice Attorney Serving Clients Near Dallas, Ft. Worth, Plano, Arlington, Irving, North Texas & Arkansas

How Our Contingent Fee Contracts Work

In cases in which we represent people who have a claim for injury or Wrongful Death due to the negligence of another person or corporation, we offer our clients a contingent fee contract. That contract provides that you will not pay us anything for legal fees unless we get a recovery for you either by settlement or judgment.

It also says that we will advance the expenses of the litigation for you. These expenses include filing fees, consultation fees, expert witness fees, travel expenses, court reporter costs, and many other expenses and costs that go with getting a case ready to settle or go to trial. You will never have to pay these expenses unless we get a recovery for you, in which case the expenses are reimbursed to us out of the client’s share of the recovery. If we do not get a recovery for you, then you owe us nothing: nothing for our time, and nothing for the money we spent on your case. This means that we take a large risk in time and money on every case we handle: if there is no recovery, we lose a lot of money.

If there is a recovery, then we get the money we advanced for your case reimbursed to us, and we get paid a fee for our work.

From the client’s standpoint, the contingent fee allows them to hire lawyers they could never afford on an hourly fee basis (we charge $400 an hour for our time), and to avoid having to pay the cost of litigation at a time when their injuries have left them unable to do so. Our contingent fee contract makes it possible for our clients to sue for their injuries. Of course, if you would prefer to pay us on an hourly fee basis, and to pay the expenses of the litigation as they are incurred, we will give you that opportunity. But very few people can afford that option, and even fewer wish to take the risk. By placing almost all of the financial risk of your case on us, our contingent fee contract enables you to focus on recovery, rather than worrying about how you can pay for a lawsuit.

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