<p>I was told that if you your case you get paid, lose and you don’t. I always thought that lawyers had to be paid even if the case was lost. Is this true?</p>
<p>Some lawyers represent plaintiffs in personal injury cases on a contingency basis. They take a percentage of any money recovered.</p>
<p>And say you lose the case, the plantiff does not receive any money and therefore you do not obtain any money, correct?</p>
<p>If a lawyer represents a plaintiff on a contingency basis, and the plaintiff recovers nothing, the lawyer is not paid.</p>
<p>Most non personal injury litigation (such as commercial, land use, matrimonial, employment,etc) is performed on a fee paid (usually hourly) basis without any contigency for a win or loss) Sometimes hybrid fee arrangements allow for a share in the award if it is above a certain amount.</p>
<p>Also for thsoe defending personal injury cases (ie insurance defense) hourly rates are the norm.</p>
<p>Tax law is basically do these bond deals comply with code, if so lots of money, if not you tell them how to change and then lots of money.</p>
<p>It’s also probably worth mentioning that many lawyers aren’t litigators, so they don’t “win” or “lose” cases at all.</p>
<p>What diffrent types of lawyers are there? And I don’t mean corporate, crime lawyers etc. I mean positions sucg as litigators mentioned by Americanski.</p>
<p>Fusionnice662,</p>
<p>If there’s one thing every lawyer has in common, it’s the ability to do research.</p>
<p>Some of them eventually become partners, and are then in a position to have others do their research for them.</p>
<p>hmmm, so…what kind of positions are there?</p>
<p>Perhaps you should do some research on the issue and let us know.</p>