Very few individual people can afford to hire a lawyer by the hour to work on a case that will take as much time and effort as a medical malpractice case. Accordingly, we represent you on a contingent fee basis. This means that you do not owe us anything for attorney's fees unless we recovery for you. We get paid a percentage of what you get. We do not get any fee until you get paid. lf there is no settlement or judgment then no fee.

We put our agreement in writing. Before we undertake to represent you, we explain our agreement to you and answer any questions that you have. The agreement is straightforward and clear. Once we undertake to represent you we continue with your case as long as it is, in our opinion, reasonably feasible to do so. We investigate your case, and if you have a valid medical malpractice claim, we put together the information needed to present a claim to the medical malpractice insurance company and attempt to settle your case. Unfortunately, most medical cases cannot be settled short of litigation. As such, if the insurance company will not reasonably settle your case, we are prepared to fight for your rights and to seek justice for you. We can take your case to court. If we do not recover for you then you do not owe us anything for attorneys' fees.

There will be costs in a medical negligence case. The State Bar Rules require that you be responsible for these. Some costs we will collect from you in advance (such as the costs of obtaining the medical records and the costs of a medical review finding negligence). If we elect to go forward with your case, we will advance all other costs for you so long as, in our opinion, it is reasonably feasible to do so. You must pay all of the costs out of your portion of the recovery, but you do not do this until we recover for you. Moreover, the State Bar Rules do not require us to take any action to collect costs from you if there is no recovery and unless there is a recovery, we will take no action to recover the costs from you.

We put all of this in writing. If we elect to go forward with your case, we advance the bulk of the costs needed to move your case along, and we account to you for all of the costs we advance.