Two people enter into an agreement for work to be completed. The agreement is for completion of legal work with a monetary sum to be paid up front and the remainder of the fee is to be paid as a percentage of any judgement or settlement based on the legal work achieved before the Court. The agreement is communicated in person and also by email as a binding agreement between the parties for the small sum and percentage indicated. The very same law and contractual analysis used to assist the parties in Court covers this scenario except that the exchange of emails and the partial payment of $5000.00 pursuant to the agreement for the work to be done and Court attendance to be made confirms that we have binding consideration between the parties. The documents are bound and printed. The cases are printed and the attendance at Court is fulfilled. The contingency agreement appears in the Court file. There is judgement and the funds are paid to the client such that the contingency fee of 20% is owed and to be paid by the client. Lets say the client recovered $160,000.00. The contingency fee of 20% of $32,000.00 is owed by the paying party and also their assigns. The details of the contingency fee is added to the order requested by Counsel and prepared by the Court as the final order. There is no need of expecting a law suit for final payments of the contingency fee. Even if there was, there is sufficient evidence of a binding agreement between the parties for judgement with damages for breach and also costs if they insist on the written, contractual agreement amount of 20%. It looks like the party owed says he is content to see them pay up to 12%. The matter is set down in the order and is to be paid by the client in obeisance to the order or else he may face contempt of Court proceedings in the Criminal Court. He could be charged for fraud and for obtaining services by deception. He said he would pay the fee and the work was faithfully completed on that basis. Giptiwiri

 Two people enter into an agreement for work to be completed. The agreement is for completion of legal work with a monetary sum to be paid up front and the remainder of the fee is to be paid as a percentage of any judgement or settlement based on the legal work achieved before the Court.  The agreement is communicated in person and also by email as a binding agreement between the parties for the small sum and percentage indicated. The very same law and contractual analysis used to assist the parties in Court covers this scenario except that the exchange of emails and the partial payment of $5000.00 pursuant to the agreement for the work to be done and Court attendance to be made confirms that we have binding consideration between the parties. The documents are bound and printed.   The cases are printed and the attendance at Court is fulfilled.  The contingency agreement appears in the Court file. There is judgement and the funds are paid to the client such that the contingency fee of 20% is owed and to be paid by the client.  Lets say the client recovered $160,000.00. The contingency fee of 20% of $32,000.00 is owed by the paying party and also their assigns.  The details of the contingency fee is added to the order requested by Counsel and  prepared by the Court as the final order. 

There is no need of expecting a law suit for final payments of the contingency fee. Even if there was, there is sufficient evidence of a binding agreement between the parties for judgement with damages for breach and also costs if they insist on the written, contractual agreement amount of 20%.   It looks like the party owed  says he  is  content to see them pay up to 12%.   The matter is set down in the order and is to be paid by the client in obeisance to the order or else he may face contempt of Court proceedings in the Criminal Court. He could be charged for fraud and for obtaining services by deception. He said he would pay the fee and the work was faithfully completed on that basis. 

Giptiwiri