NOUN
- a fee that is payable only if the outcome is successful (as for an attorney's services)
How To Use contingency fee In A Sentence
- The one remaining route that has the potential to allow these claims to be run is that of the contingency fee system. Times, Sunday Times
- It recommended that the prohibition on contingency fees and other forms of incentive should be re-examined.
- Voters rejected measures to ban most lawsuits resulting from car accidents, limit shareholder lawsuits and slash lawyers' contingency fees.
- Voters rejected measures to ban most lawsuits resulting from car accidents, limit shareholder lawsuits and slash lawyers' contingency fees.
- Californians also turned down Proposition 202, a proposal to limit lawyers' contingency fees and encourage early settlement of lawsuits.
- On the face of it, the practice of contingency fees could very well be tortious, contrary to the torts of champerty and maintenance.
- Another reason clients like contingency fees is because they know that lawyers will not unduly delay the case.
- The system was desirable as it would promote access to the courts, although contingency fee agrements should not be permissible in family and criminal law cases, the SALC said in a statement. ANC Daily News Briefing
- It also notes that'there is surprising absence of evidence of consumer disquiet about contingency fees '. Times, Sunday Times
- A substantial percentage of these lawsuits are brought by attorneys working on a contingency fee basis.
