(alsocontingent fee)LAWamethodofpayingsomeone such as alawyerin which nomoneyispaiduntil aparticularaimisachieved, forexamplegetting asaleorcontractor asuccessfulresultin acourtoflaw:a contingency fee agreement/arrangement/systemTheclientsignedacontingencyfeeagreementthatpromisedthelawyer40% of thefinalsettlementorjudgment.(Definition ofcontingency feefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcontingency fee
contingency feeMost personal injury lawyers work on acontingencyfeebasis.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The averagecontingencyfeeis about thirty percent.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The firm operates on acontingencyfeebasis, whereby a portion of any award is retained by the law firm.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Personal injury lawyers will generally take your case on what's called acontingencyfeebasis.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Generally, when a lawyer takes a case on acontingencyfee, a client has no obligation to pay his/her lawyer a fee unless the case is successfully resolved.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This casual self-image extends into the corporate structure of the firm, which lacks any formal management committees other than an advisory committee for the evaluation ofcontingencyfeecases.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.We do not want thecontingencyfeearrangement to be some kind of smokescreen for not extending legal aid and accessibility to legal services.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0The district attorney system will take over the criminal prosecutions, and the corrupt philosophy of thecontingencyfeewill pervade the whole system.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0That said, will he consider the possibility of alternative funding methods, such as acontingencyfeefund?From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I make a distinction between acontingencyfeefund and contingency fees.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/contingency-fee##
