How to Use contingency fee in a Sentence

contingency fee

noun
Definition of contingency feenext
  • The firms get their usual contingency fee, and NAAG gets a cut.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The bill would set strict limits on contingency fees paid to outside lawyers.
    — Bruce Schreiner, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Some lawyers say the 2010 law has had a chilling effect, steering law firms to clients that don’t have limits on contingency fees.
    — Lawrence Mower, miamiherald, 14 May 2018
  • The money would also help pay off his contingency fee, which an LSU lawyer pegged at more than $1 million.
    — Andrea Gallo, ProPublica, 16 May 2019
  • Some of these attorneys are working on contingency fees, and are sharing the risk.
    — George Stephens and Charles J. Jacobus, Houston Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Cities and counties are represented by private lawyers, who work on contingency fees.
    — Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020
  • AkinMears signed up tens of thousands of clients, charging each a 40 percent contingency fee — meaning it was only collected if the clients won verdicts or settlements.
    — L.m. Sixel, San Antonio Express-News, 29 May 2018
  • And giving additional tax breaks to already deep-pocketed contingency fee lawyers smacks of naked cronyism.
    — Regina Thomson, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2021
  • By contrast, local governments are using private lawyers, who work on contingency fees.
    — Jan Hoffman, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • McNair appealing would bring on additional attorneys fees, whether they are paid by McNair or absorbed by the attorneys as part of a contingency fee arrangement.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 21 May 2018
  • The contingency fee structure is the only way many people can afford access to legal representation for accident.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Investors might spread their money across a portfolio of cases to limit their vulnerability on any single one or, as in the arrangement Watts and his partners put together, take a cut of the contingency fee for an individual matter.
    — Francesca Mari, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Taylor's family will receive $12 million, with their attorneys receiving 33% as a contingency fee.
    — Tessa Duvall, The Courier-Journal, 15 Sep. 2020
  • And the Senate is pushing legislation to pay a contingency fee on collections to companies using data analytics to go after delinquent taxpayers.
    — James Salzer, ajc, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Personal injury lawyers representing victims work on a contingency fee basis.
    — Timothy D. Lytton, Quartz, 10 Dec. 2020

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