Contingent Fee Service

Our law firm takes most of our cases on the contingent fee basis. We charge a fee for our service only if we make a recovery.

MR. MARC P. WEINGARTEN: Our law firm, the Locks Law Firm, takes most of our cases on what’s called a contingent fee basis. Contingent fee is a very unique feature of law pretty much only used in the United States where a client is allowed or is enabled to hire a very specialized lawyer and doesn’t have to pay the lawyer on an hourly basis, doesn’t have to pay the lawyer upfront. Basically, we become in partnership with the client so that we only get paid if the client gets paid. We’re the only profession that works that way. Doctors don’t work that way. Automobile mechanics don’t work that way. Only lawyers do. There’s no charge to the client. They don’t pay for our time. They don’t pay for our expenses unless we make a recovery on behalf of the client. The beauty of the contingent fee relationship is that it opens up the Courthouse doors to regular, working people and puts them on an equal footing with the largest corporations in the world. Those corporations go out and hire lawyers at $1,000 an hour, but the people who are injured don’t have the ability to do that and so, therefore, the contingent fee enables them to have the same access to justice that the large corporations do.