Contingency Fees Revisited . The dispute over the proper taxation of contingency fees paid to an attorney continues.Several circuit courts have maintained the amounts were not taxable. A recent case ...

Leeponis, 95 A.D.2d 822 (2d Dept. 1983), the plaintiffs' attorneys were retained pursuant to a contingency fee agreement that tied attorney fees to "all sums recovered" by the plaintiffs. Id. at 822.

There are two basic approaches to valuing periodic payments in a structured settlement or judgment for the purpose of calculating a plaintiff's contingent attorney fee: the present value approach ...

RICHMOND — A trial judge should not have cut the contingency fee in a personal injury case from $6 million to $600,000, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held this week. The plaintiff, who ...

(CN) – A $36 million dollar contingency fee won by three attorneys for their work on behalf of victims of a 1986 Berlin nightclub bombing will remain in trust until all claims on the money are ...

In 2010, the law firm Gilbert, working on contingency, went to trial and won a $26 million judgment for Alpha, a specialized U.S. tire maker suing foreign competitors for stealing its trade secrets.

Certainly not Cravath, Swaine & Moore. On Thursday, the firm won a Delaware Chancery Court ruling, opens new tab that Cravath is entitled to a big, fat $74.8 million contingency fee for obtaining ...