Contingency-fee lawyers can collect fees exceeding any individual plaintiff’s recovery

Evidence

This, Schlichtmann pointed out to the families, was only 28 percent of the total settlement, less than the 40 percent fee they’d agreed to when they’d signed the contingency forms. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 2878

Categorization

• SHARE: Send to anyone who litigates contingency cases — a 375,000-per-family payout against a 2.2 million legal fee is the whole incentives problem in one line.
• XREF: connects to: Attorneys treat contingent fee cases as a risk-and-reward portfolio. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 743