Sentence examples for a contingency fee from inspiring English sources

"But a contingency fee should be contingent.

States frequently engage private attorneys on a contingency fee basis.

"He was not working on a contingency fee basis," Mr. Martinez said.

"If the law firm can't carry the upfront costs, then they need not to agree to a contingency fee".

Mr. Drivon, who stands to split a contingency fee of perhaps $100 million, said the current system works just fine.

The only kind of lawyer he has hinted at hiring is a plaintiff's attorney who would work on a contingency fee and help him sue Gawker.

In 2008, a Milwaukee County circuit court judge, John Siefert, sued the state on a contingency fee basis, asserting his right to be identified as a Democrat.

"In some cases, the private vendor gets paid a contingency fee per citation, which means they have a financial incentive to issue large volumes of citations," he said.

"An agreement like that really does cause one to wonder if using a contingency fee model is really about safety or lining the pockets of vendors".

Milberg Weiss charges on a contingency-fee basis, and in some cases it takes as much as a third of the damages.

These, it says, are often arbitrary and encourage frivolous lawsuits brought by plaintiffs' lawyers on a contingency-fee basis, which allows them to pocket a large slice of the proceeds themselves.