Recently I was contacted  by  a nice guy who had been in a car accident in Chicago.  He had found what seemed like a great car accident law firm to represent him, but had questions about their fees.

He first asked me what a standard fee is for a personal injury lawyer. I answered honestly that in most cases it’s 1/3 of what is recovered.  Occasionally this goes higher or lower, but 1/3 is pretty standard.

That made sense to him. What didn’t make sense is that the firm he was thinking about hiring wanted to charge him 40% of…
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