If you have hundreds of thousands of dollars, then you’re probably not too worried about whether your lawyer’s fees are contingency based or not. But if you don’t have that kind of money to spend on a top Mesa personal injury lawyer, then you could benefit greatly from contingency fees.
With a typical fee agreement, you would have to pay the lawyer an hourly rate for their legal services. This not only includes the time the actual lawyer spends working on your case and formulating arguments, but also the time their paralegals, support staff, and expert witnesses (such as investigators and accident reconstructionists) put into your case. This can add up quickly. In fact, a complicated Mesa personal injury case could take thousands of hours of a lawyer and his or her staff’s time. So, realistically speaking, even if someone was seriously injured by the blatant negligence of another person, say in a drunk driving case, the victim would probably never be able to afford to retain the best lawyer to represent them without contingency fees.
Here at Breyer Law Offices, we only work with clients on a contingency fee basis. Even though we are a considered one of Mesa’s top personal injury attorneys and we’ve won cases for thousands of clients, we’ve still never had a client have to pay us out of their own pocket. Every dollar we’ve ever earned has come out of either a settlement that we have negotiated or out of a successful verdict that a jury has rendered.
