Hourly Rate - Frightening Charge in Auto Accident Attorney Fees

In previous post, we present contingency fee info that auto accident attorney will charge you in percentage. From now on, we will talking about another fee that made clients got a terrible time, "hourly rate".

This second fee might make you feel creepy if you didn't read fee agreement very well before accept lawyer's offer.

Normally, when you want to hire auto accident attorney to fight for your compensation, he/she will offer fees info for you to decide. In case of your lawyer win the case, he/she will gain money from contingency fee.

However, if the hourly rate is the one of fees you accept to pay to attorney too, you need to pay whether your attorney will win the case in the court or not.

This fee is relevant to the time it takes to prevail.

Hourly rate - one of auto accident attorney fees.

Hourly rate (or you can call it "hourly billing rate") is the fee that you will pay for every hour your lawyer works on your auto accident case. Hourly rate of each lawyer is different. Some lawyers will charge you this fee very much for every hour that spend in the court but less in every hour to prepare for the case.

Actually, when your attorney want to charge the hourly rate or contingency fee to you, both of them are indicators that point your case can't be winnable or not.

For the best answer, you should ask auto accident attorney about this hour rate in detail as much as possible. So you can save money and looking for reasonable expenses.

Next time, we will focus on the last charge in three auto accident attorney fees, "flat fee".

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Contingency Fee - One of Auto Accident Attorney Fees

Auto accident attorney fees are the main topic that everyone who will hire auto accident attorney should collect tons of info for decision.

Most of these lawyers will charge these legal services to the their client. Actually, there are three fees...

1. Contingency Fee
2. Hour Rate
3. Flat Fee

But today, we will talk about the first of list above.

Contingency Fee

One of auto accident attorney fees.

In some states, contingency fee is the expense that often will pay to your lawyer. It will be calculated based on pre-arranged percentage of the money from the total settlement amount or compensation amount.

This means that if your attorney can't win the case for you, you will not to pay this fee to your auto accident attorney. However, in case of your lawyer can't recover injury money for you, it doesn't mean that you don't need to pay any expenses to him/her.

With good will...
So we recommend you to read fee agreement many times. Understanding it will help you know the contingency fee percentage that attorney will charge to you when he/she recovered your money. For other question about contingency fee, you can ask attorney to get the right answer.

OK, this is contingency fee info for you. Next time, we might present you the second in car accident lawyer fee - "Hour Rate".

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