Fees

Our Fees Share Risk With The Injured Client

Keller & Keller handles all personal injury cases on a contingent fee basis. Our contingency fee contract is a percentage contract. This means that we do not charge clients anything until we make a recovery for them, then we get paid a percentage of what is collected from the insurance company. If no recovery is made on your personal injury case from the insurance company or at fault corporation, our law firm is paid nothing. In this way, we share the risk with you. Also, our contingency fee contract sets forth incentive for Keller & Keller, as your personal injury lawyers, to get as much as we possibly can for the client. More money for the client means a larger fee for the firm. With this kind of percentage contract, it allows a client who has been hurt in a car wreck or other accident to hire the very best attorney available without having to come up with up front cash or pay the attorney on an hourly basis.

No Up Front Money

Another aspect of the contingency fee agreement in personal injury cases is the repayment of "costs." "Costs" refer to those expenses which the personal injury attorney or someone will have to pay in order to pursue the injury claim. This is not money for the attorney’s time. Rather, the costs are to pay for things like the medical records, medical consultations with the injured person’s doctors, witness fees for the doctors to testify, expert witness fees for professionals necessary to prove certain aspects of the liability or damages, and fees to courts and court reporters. Normally, the personal injury victim is not in a position to pay these costs out of their own pocket. Typically, the person who has been hurt in an accident is struggling to pay their own bills while they may be out of work or incurring unexpected medical bills. So, the law allows a personal injury attorney to advance these costs on behalf of the client. This means that the lawyer will pay for these things to pursue the personal injury case expecting to get paid back after the case is finished. Our firm does this on all of our personal injury cases and gets it costs advanced back from the client upon successful completion of the case.

If the injured person does not make a recovery sufficient to pay back the costs, typically the law firm ends up writing off those as a non-recoverable loss. Technically, under the ethics law applicable to personal injury cases, the client remains responsible for unrecovered costs. However, as a practical matter, our law firm never sues anyone for these costs and does not expect to be paid back under most circumstances because the client usually cannot afford to pay back those costs in the event that their personal injury case is lost. The way cost recovery works also creates incentives for me, as the personal injury lawyer, to make sure that we try to win the case as we have the risk of having to eat the costs if we are not successful.

One of the unique aspects of the Keller & Keller fee structure is the simplicity of our fee contract. Our contrat fits on a single page. There is nothing confusing about it and that it says that we are working on a percentage basis and that the percentage is from the gross recovery. Keller & Keller wants to be your injury firm and will share the risk with you to get the job done.

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