Peebles Law Offices does not get paid unless you do. It charges its attorney’s fees by “contingency” – by keeping a portion of the recovery from your case. If your case does not make a recovery, neither does the law firm, and you pay nothing.
So how much do most attorneys keep?
People who hire other law firms are sometimes surprised to learn at the end of their case that they had agreed for their attorneys to keep 33%, 40%, or even 50% of the total recovery as fees. Attorneys also take from the balance left to you to pay back the charges that were generated during your case, which the attorneys had credited for you, such as: case costs, expenses, expert fees, and liens (if any), among others.
Other attorneys charge these high fees to fill their pockets and to pay for unnecessary office operating costs.
Other law firms charge you attorney’s fees at a rate high enough to pay for the attorney’s work, plus enough to cover some of the law firm’s operating costs. These costs are different from your individual case costs (like your court costs, case expert fees, and other costs). Other law firms’ operating costs may include paralegal salaries, training and evaluating of new and inexperienced attorneys, considerable office rental space, office luncheons, holiday parties, and more. You pay for these office operating costs inclusive within the attorney’s fees that other law firms charge you. These office operating costs should be going down, not up. Modern technology has reduced, or even erased, the need for many of these operating costs.
Should you pay less in attorney’s fees?
Isn’t there technology that takes the info the client provides and transforms it directly into letters and documents, so that fewer or no paralegals are needed to perform this task? So that costs for the office space they occupy are reduced? So that you, the client, pays less in attorney’s fees?
The answer is: YES.
- Do you have access to the internet by a computer or cell phone?
- Can you use email?
If you answered “Yes” to the last two questions, then ask Peebles Law Offices whether you and your case qualify to receive a reduced attorney fee rate. Most people qualify who answer “Yes” to both questions. The contingency fee rate charged from your case recovery can drop to as low as 30%, 25%, or even 15%, depending on your case. Whether you and your case qualify for a reduced rate is determined by Peebles Law Offices and may be promised when Peebles Law Offices agrees to take your case.