Nothing- from out of your pocket, anyway.
A contingency fee is used by lawyers in most South Carolina personal injury cases. The fee is a portion of your settlement paid by the insurance company, usually 1/3. You'll likely be responsible for paying the costs incurred by the lawyer to help your claim, but these expenses are usually repaid from the settlement, along with the fee. The fee is computed before costs are deducted.
If you need it, here's a more extensive discussion about how much money South Carolina lawyers take from a settlement and typical costs.
Better yet, get your questions answered in a free, no pressure strategy session with a Spartanburg, SC personal injury attorney. Call toll free at 888-230-1841 or fill out a Get Help Now form.
For consumers the beauty of a contingency fee is, we don't take your case unless we're pretty sure we can help you. The benefit to society is, it discourages lawyers from filing frivolous lawsuits- if we don't think you have a meritorious case that should be paid, we can't get paid, so we decline the case.
There are other benefits of a contingency fee. It helps give more people access to justice, since hurt people typically don’t have the money to take on giant corporations or their insurance companies. And it protects you from the lawyer spending way more time on your case than you both expect– it doesn’t change the fee like it would if you paid him by the hour. So you don’t have to be scared to death checking your mailbox every first of the month for an enormous bill.
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