Bahama Divers closed after lawsuit
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If it aint paid, how does anyone win? I’m confused. Judgment means squadoosh.
Pete - how are they getting paid here? You keep insisting that they did. How do you know? Short of seeing a settlement doc, you’re just making stuff up.
This simply isn't true. Attorneys regularly end up going unpaid for their work. For some types of law practices like class-action specialists, they may get nothing on the majority of cases they take on. They are making a risk assessment that the ones that do pay off will more than offset the losses. Lawyers who take a case on a contingency basis only get paid if and when a settlement or judgement is collected, not when it is agreed or awarded. BTW, if an injury lawyer demands an hourly payment, they are pretty much telling you that they don't expect that there will be any money collected.
Other types of lawyers obviously do get paid regardless of the outcome. Basically if there's no chance of a monetary award and most corporate work.
A law practice in Indiana took on a pro bono case for my late mother vs her financial advisor. They won and received a judgment against him for several hundred thousand. Given that the financial advisor was by then broke himself and died not too long after, they got squat as did my mom. Sometimes firms do take on cases just because they want to see justice done. Yes, you don’t get their top lawyers but you do often get young, idealistic lawyers who sometimes are just what you need.
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