In-house counsel who seek to enforce patents rights—but are concerned about large upfront out-of-pocket attorney fees—should consider exploring contingent fee arrangements, which have become ...

The move by the Internal Revenue Service to further limit contingent fees for Circular 230 tax practitioners has drawn opposition from virtually every group of tax professionals.Representatives from ...

In the last decade, a substantial market has begun to develop for contingent fee representation in patent litigation. Wiley Rein — a traditional general practice law firm with hundreds of attorneys ...

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The Rules of Professional Conduct — the ethical rules governing the legal profession — define a contingent fee as “a fee for legal services under which compensation is to be contingent in whole or in ...

Lawyers who handle personal injury and other types of cases do so on the basis of a contingent or conditional fee. A contingent fee is defined as a fee charged for a lawyer’s services only if the ...

We are a nation of laws and at times we all need a lawyer. We may need a special kind of lawyer for criminal defense, divorce, an accident or real estate deal. We need a Will, face a worker’s comp ...

Local governmental entities would have to follow a new procedure to hire contingent-fee plaintiffs law firms for cases involving engineering and architects under a bill that a Texas legislative ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - What is a contingent fee? It's a contract written by a lawyer - so be careful. A New Mexico jury just convicted a man who choked into unconsciousness an employee at the personal ...