Digdeeper17, I appreciate your opinions and questions. In fact, you have more questions than I have answers. Until we learn what the facts are surrounding this mystery, about all we can do is ask questions and offer opinions. I guess your opinions are as good as the next guy's. We all have twenty-twenty hindsight. What I struggle with is twenty-twenty foresight.
In my limited experience the contingency arrangement covered all costs including expert witness fees. The lawyers just deduct all of it from the settlement. That’s one of the reasons a law firm on contingency would rarely consider taking a case unless they were confident they could obtain a lucrative settlement. Often these specialized firms have a network of experts they can tap to be a witness depending on the type of testimony that’s needed.
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