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 ...

A contingent fee is defined as a fee charged for a lawyer’s services only if the lawsuit is successful by either settlement or judgment. The contingent fee is usually calculated based on a ...

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.

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 ...

The Rules of Professional Conduct — the ethical rules governing the legal profession — define a contingent fee as “a fee for ... lawyer obtains a $500,000 judgment after four years ...

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 ...

But by allowing contingency fees in the Federal Court, the judgment brings to an end Victoria’s dominance and sets up a test for other state supreme courts that have been delivered a road map to ...

A Hawaiian state lawmaker wants to update the island’s contingency plan to account for a potential North Korean attack against the U.S., according to a Saturday Hawaii News Now report.

Today’s apex court judgment clarifies any doubt that may have existed regarding how attorneys may charge contingency fees. Juanne de la Guerre was a passenger in a motor vehicle in which she was ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - An employee at Mayor Wright Public Housing has tested positive for COVID-19 and some are concerned about how the Hawaii Public Housing Authority is handling the ...