We are one of the only areas of law that does not get paid until the very end of the case. It’s called a contingency fee, and what that means is we don’t get paid until our client signs a settlement sheet and approves the settlement. We’ve got to work for it. We’ve got to earn it. I love that part of it. We don’t get paid unless we do our job. And contingency fee is the same throughout the country, and Maryland has one of four states with this awful liability law.
The way we get paid is the same in all 50 states, and the general fee, and we’re proud that our fee’s never gone up in 15 years of business, is one-third of the settlement if we’re able to settle the case to their satisfaction. The fee can go up if litigation – not mandatory, but the fee can go up if a lawsuit is filed. We’re also proud of the fact that we do not nickel and dime when it comes to expenses. If there is something that we have to pay for out of the settlement, like a police report, like requesting hospital bills and records and some other medical providers, sometimes investigations for a witness, for example – that’s an example of an expense. But there are absolutely no expenses, zero, for anything that’s not related to their case.
General expenses, what I call “keep the lights on” fees, that a lot of law firms charge: document preparation fee, client preparation fee, case management fee, postage, fax, overhead, general expenses, $25, $50, $100 fee costs none of that with us. And so the goal at the end of the day, not only get to that great number, but from that number, put as much in our client’s pocket as possible. And we do that again by keeping our fees the same from day one and not charging any expenses that are unrelated to their case.
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