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swissvale72
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VeritasSteel
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:26 am |
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There is nothing happy that can be salvaged from this story unless some kid goes to college because of that money.
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swissvale72
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:09 am |
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....and the fuckin' lawyers reaped 53% of the settlement.
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VeritasSteel
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:22 am |
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brother I know I know. People just don't get it the lawyer takes more than the tax man so much so you shoulda just settled
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Steelknife
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:53 am |
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That's absurd that the lawyers took 53%. Most jurisdictions require contingency fees to be reasonable. 30% I can see. Even 40%. 53%? It's hard to see that as reasonable in a case like this. The only thing I can imagine is that no lawyer would take the case on a typical 30% fee because 1) the facts were against them and 2) the likely award, if any, was going to be quite low, so 53% was reasonable under the circumstances. Risk to the lawyer is, and should, be factored into a determination whether a contingency fee is reasonable, in my opinion, though reasonable minds can disagree. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq ... k-matters/_________________ 
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swissvale72
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:45 pm |
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Right, Knife....I thought that 1/3 was about the going rate.
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SteelerTilIDie
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 5:20 am |
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swissvale72 wrote: ....and the fuckin' lawyers reaped 53% of the settlement. That's what I noticed... _________________ "......was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor ?....." SteelerTilIDie: Steeler Einstein viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23436
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Steelafan77
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The criminal was high on a controlled substance but that had nothing to do with his premature death?  God this country has really gone to hell in a hand basket. Sad! _________________ Honor the Fallen. http://www.militarytimes.com/valor/
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