The contingency fee to the attorney is usually 25% or more of the recovery.
No one anticipated, however, how large the contingency fees might be.
These works are registered free, and there is no contingency fee upon finding them.
Then, as now, contingency fees were often the only way the poor could afford effective representation against big business.
"One could say the same things in a pardon case and it seems another example of why contingency fees are often a bad idea."
He'll have to wait for his contingency fee on some million-dollar case.
It has been said that the contingency fee is the poor man's key to the courthouse.
We were on a contingency fee, as usual, which made it all the more important.
But even if he receives 1 percent, a very low contingency fee, that would be $33 million.
What might happen without contingency fees is seen in criminal court.