Personal Injury Fees
25% CONTINGENCY FEES IN ALL CASES
Our fees are reduced from the customary 33-40% charged by most personal injury attorneys.
NO RECOVERY – NO FEES OR COSTS
We advance all costs to prosecute your claim. You owe us nothing if we don’t get recovery for you.
FREE NON-OBLIGATION CONSULTATIONS
Call us to see if you have a claim or if you need a second opinion on an existing claim.
Contingency Fees: No Recovery – No Fees or Costs
In Florida, most personal injury attorneys take cases on a contingency basis, which means that they are paid a percentage of the proceeds they are able to recover from the responsible party. Thus, under most contingency fee contracts, personal injury clients do not have to pay any up front legal fees and costs, and the lawyer does not get paid unless there is monetary recovery in the case.
Customary Contingency Fees
Florida Bar Rules of Professional Conduct set out the maximum permissible percentages for personal injury contingency fees agreements which vary depending on various factors. If the attorney wants the fee to be greater than allowed percentages, the lawyer must get the court’s permission for the increase.
Pre-suit settlement (without a lawsuit or before an answer to a lawsuit complaint):
Litigation settlement when defendant denies liability and damages:
Litigation settlement when defendant admits liability, but contests damages:
Our Fees – We Offer Reduced 25% Contingency Fees in All Cases
We have reduced our contingency attorney fees to 25% in all cases. This enables our clients to retain more money from their settlement and helps avoid situations where the attorney gets paid more than the injured client. The less you pay the attorney, the more money you end up with in your pocket.
We are able to reduce our contingency fees from 33-40% to 25% in all cases because we have low overhead expenses and because we focus on maximizing the value of each case, rather than achieving a quick settlement to get paid. After all, the higher the settlement, the higher the attorney fee, even at a reduced 25% rate, and the client is fairly compensated. And as a saying goes, “A happy client is a return client.”
What makes us different?
In personal injury cases, paying more in attorney fees will not result in more money to the client. Attorneys take a percentage of gross settlement for fees and costs. Then, after paying outstanding medical bills, what’s left is the client’s net settlement proceeds. So, the less you pay in attorney fees, the more money you end up with in your pocket.
The goal of the insurance companies is to pay as little as possible. Personal injury attorneys have no “secret sauce” to make an insurance company pay more than the value of the case. Because personal injury cases are evidence-based, it for the most part, all comes down to proper and thorough documentation of liability, causation and damages.
However, personal injury attorneys are not alike. Some attorneys are passive and take a lackadaisical approach in their cases. They will not go an extra mile for their client. Once they sign up a client, they are entitled to their 33%, even when a “settles itself,” such as in cases with clear liability, great causation and damages. Some attorneys are there only for a client sign up. Once they sign up the client, their active involvement in the case for the most part is done and the handling of the case is passed onto to secretaries and paralegals.
Having started my career as a receptionist, moving up to a paralegal and ultimately becoming a lawyer, I’ve worked with and/or supervised at least a dozen of secretaries/paralegals over the past 17 years, and let me tell you – they can be a mess! My most stressful days usually involved dealing with poor work ethnics and/or utter incompetence of the secretaries. Very often I ended up doing their work, which was sometimes easier and quicker. I’ve also had the pleasure working with excellent paralegals. However, those are hard to find since attorneys hold on to them with iron claws.
I take a proactive approach in personal injury cases and I work all cases to their maximum potential using all available tools to thoroughly document and build up a case. I work with clients hand-in-hand and walk them through every step of the process. I guide them through the claim process to obtain both maximum medical and monetary recovery.
We offer free non-obligation consultations. Give us a call. 386-248-3000.