Justice White said the Court wanted to decide whether the "risk of loss" taken by lawyers who take such cases on a contingency-payment basis is a reason to enhance their "reasonable" hourly rates when awarding fees.
They will also receive a £3m "contingency payment" if Rooney is still a United player in three years and a maximum £4m in performance-related top-ups.
Flynn says that the agents with whom Renovo contracts are trained professionals, and he insists that the contingency payment system had nothing to do with Jacobs' death.
The deal, to be concluded in three months, should end a legal battle over contingency payments to the plant's owner, a private Brazilian company called MPX Energia.
EDF believes the project will cost £16bn but the EC claimed construction costs alone by the time the plant is built in 2023 will be more than £24bn with a further possible £10bn of contingency payments.
Industry executives said similar fees, often referred to as contingency payments, were widely paid to brokers and consultants by the employee benefits companies.
James Strachan QC tried to suggest Alex had confused the contingency payments for phase one and phase two, but Alex was having none of it.
"It's no surprise that Mr. Spitzer is pursuing these contingency payments in the employee benefits area," said Terry Havens, the chief executive of Havensure, a small employee benefits consulting firm in Cincinnati.
The same could be said of Bates, whose club would have received £500,000 had Sheffield United remained in the Premier League and been required to honour contingency payments written into the contracts of players transferred between the clubs.
The commission also fined the firm $2,000 for making the contingency payments, but Alan S. Plofsky, the executive director, stressed that Crossroads had inadvertently, not intentionally, violated Connecticut's lobbying laws.
It demonstrates to any potential lender that you understand your market, know your customer, can generate the income to make timely payments, and have a contingency plan should something unexpected happen.
