Because many clients have suffered devastating financial losses and either cannot afford or choose not to pay as they go, we want to help you get access to the best legal help.
We offer simple payment options that allow you to get the help you need when you need it.
How we get paid depends on what we agree.
We will provide you with a free consultation of at least ½ hour. If you choose not to go further, we part without any commitment or payment by you.
Our payment options include:
Block fee:
We get paid a block fee to investigate the merits of your claim and give you our opinion, including an explanation of how we analyzed your claim.
Contingency Retainer:
For many of our clients, they need us because they have suffered devastating financial losses and see financial hardship in their future. Some clients prefer to align our compensation with their recovery. For these clients we may offer a contingency retainer.
A contingency retainer means that we get paid for our time only if and when you recover some or all of your losses. When we consider offering a contingency retainer (as with all of our recommendations to pursue loss recovery) we consider the cost-benefit matrix. Is your loss sufficient to justify a significant investment of legal resources in seeking a recovery. We consider our chances of receiving full compensation for our time and additional compensation for our risk and the delay in payment, while recognizing the need to return lost funds to your care.
In a contingency retainer we guarantee that we will not be paid for our fees more than a pre-agreed percentage of what you get paid by the insurer.
If we don’t think we have a reasonable opportunity to be well compensated while achieving a result that materially betters your financial position, then we are unlikely to offer a contingency retainer. If we don’t recommend a contingency retainer you should seriously think twice before proceeding on a Hourly Retainer basis.
Hourly Retainer:
We get paid by the hour, every month, for the work we do and the costs we take on for you.
While an hourly retainer can cost clients less in total than a contingency retainer; you bear the risk of how much is paid. There is no minimum fee. There is no maximum fee. You pay our fees each month and you get 100% of what you recover from the Defendant.