Fees & Costs
How our fees work.
We offer two contingency structures. In both, you avoid the open-ended monthly bills of pure hourly representation.
Full Contingency
We take 40% of the recovery, and 50% if the case is appealed. You pay no hourly fees. We advance the legal work and are paid only from what we recover.
Reduced Hourly + Contingency
You pay 50% of our standard hourly rates each month, regardless of outcome, plus a 25% contingency on any recovery. This lowers your monthly cost compared to full hourly billing while keeping our incentives aligned with your result.
Our contingent fee applies to attorney's fees only. Clients remain responsible for litigation costs and expenses — such as filing fees, court reporters, and expert witnesses — regardless of the outcome, unless those costs are covered by litigation financing. We do not represent that our ability to help arrange litigation financing is unique or extraordinary.
A point we don’t hide
We can’t take a case for attorney’s fees alone. We accept contingency cases to earn a multiple of our hourly rates, justified by the risk we take on. A case that could yield only a court-awarded fee — at best, our ordinary hourly rate — doesn’t serve that purpose, so it isn’t one we’ll take on contingency. (Court-awarded attorney’s fees in copyright cases, for example, also require that the work was registered before the infringement — see our Copyright page.) We’d rather you know this up front.
Costs are separate from fees
Costs are what third parties — not the firm — charge in connection with your case. The client is responsible for costs. They include court filing fees, court reporters and deposition transcripts, travel, legal-research charges, and e-discovery and document-management platforms. Most significantly, they include expert witnesses. We use expert witnesses in nearly every case, and they can be expensive.
Litigation financing
You don’t necessarily have to pay those costs out of pocket. Litigation financing has grown into a major industry, and for cases likely to succeed we can usually arrange it. A funder advances the costs, and the advance is typically non-recourse — meaning that if the case is lost, you owe the funder nothing. We have arranged this financing for clients so that the costs of litigation never came out of their pockets.
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