33⅓%
If your case resolves before suit is filed
One third of the gross recovery. Most straightforward cases with clear liability and adequate coverage resolve here, on a demand package built like a trial exhibit.
The Money, In Writing
Every firm says "no fee unless we win." Here is the rest of the sentence.
The fee, the case expenses, the medical liens, and what actually reaches you: that arithmetic decides how you feel about your lawyer at the end of the case, and almost nobody publishes it. We do, with a calculator you can run before you ever call us. Ask any firm you interview to match this page.
The Fee, Published
Two Numbers. No Asterisks.
40%
If we file suit on your behalf
Litigation multiplies the work: discovery, depositions, experts, trial preparation. The step-up is disclosed before you sign, and it never changes mid-case.
$0
If we do not recover for you
No attorney's fee, and you do not repay the case expenses we advanced. The risk of your case is ours to carry. That is what a contingency fee is for.
Case expenses, filing fees, records, experts, depositions, are advanced by the firm and reimbursed from the recovery, itemized to the penny in your closing statement. The percentages above are our standard engagement; unusual cases are quoted before you sign, never after.
The Closing Statement, Simulated
Run the Arithmetic Yourself.
This is the document every client receives at the end of a real case. Move the numbers and watch where every dollar goes. Nothing you enter leaves your device.
Where a Recovery Goes
Illustration · Your closing statement itemizes to the pennyHospital and provider liens are negotiated down in nearly every case. The illustration assumes a typical result of about 35 percent off.
Settlement Closing Statement · Illustration
Gross recovery$150,000
Attorney's fee, one third, resolved before suit− $50,000
Case expenses, advanced by the firm− $1,200
Medical liens, after negotiation− $26,000
Net to you$72,800
Expenses shown are typical for each track: records, filing, service, and, in litigation, depositions and experts. A trial-heavy case can run higher; you see every receipt.
This is an illustration of arithmetic, not an estimate of your case's value and not a promise of any result. Case value depends on liability, damages, and available coverage, and every case is evaluated on its own facts. What we commit to: the same itemized transparency, with real numbers, at the end of your actual case.
Before You Sign
The Offer Audit.
If an adjuster has already put a number in front of you, run it through the same arithmetic before you sign the release. The check comes stapled to a document that ends your claim forever. Nothing you enter leaves your device.
Audit the Carrier's Offer
A release is forever · Read it representedCount every provider: ambulance, ER, imaging, therapy. Unrepresented, hospitals and providers commonly pursue the full billed amount out of your settlement before you see any of it.
The Offer, Audited · Unrepresented
The carrier's offer$30,000
Medical bills and liens, unnegotiated− $30,000
Left for everything else$0
The bills exceed the offer, so the audit stops at zero. Texas hospital-lien law lets providers reach a settlement before you do, and an unnegotiated lien does exactly that.
This offer does not clear the medical bills. The release it comes stapled to would end the claim forever, at zero, before lost wages, future care, or the injury itself are counted. A first offer is a bid, not an appraisal. In the one case we publish day by day, the carrier's first real number was $75,000. The last one was $8,200,000. Your case is not that case, and nobody honest will promise you it is. But no first bid we have ever audited was the carrier's last.
This is an illustration of arithmetic, not legal advice and not a valuation of your case or of any offer. What a provider or health plan can actually claim varies with your coverage and with Texas lien law, and it is negotiable, which is exactly the point: negotiated liens and a moved number are what representation is for. Have a lawyer read any release before you sign it. Here, that reading is free.
What "Worth" Is Made Of
Three Kinds of Damages, Honestly Described.
Economic
Provable on paperMedical bills, past and future. Lost wages and lost earning capacity. Care your family now provides for free. These are proven with records and experts, which is why step six of our checklist says save everything.
Non-Economic
Real, and harder to provePain, impairment, disfigurement, the parts of a life that do not come with receipts. Juries award them when the story is told with discipline. This is where a trial firm earns its fee.
Exemplary
Rare, and we say soPunitive damages punish gross negligence, the drunk driver, the carrier that knew. Texas caps them and they are the exception, not the rule. A firm that promises them in the first call is selling, not advising.
Straight Answers
What Moves a Case's Value, Both Directions.
Anyone who quotes your case's value in the first phone call is guessing at best. What we can tell you honestly is what the number depends on, and which of those things a good firm can actually move.
- UPDocumented treatment, early and consistent. The record is the case. Gaps in care are the defense's favorite chart.
- UPPreserved evidence and a firm that will try. ECM data, video, witnesses on record, and a carrier that knows your lawyer picks juries.
- DOWNComparative fault. Texas reduces your recovery by your share of the blame, and bars it past fifty percent. We fight the percentage, not the client.
- CEILINGAvailable coverage. A case can be worth more than every policy that covers it. Finding every layer, umbrella, employer, UIM, is our job, and it is often where the real money is.
Already Signed Somewhere Else?
Switching Firms Does Not Double the Fee.
You can replace your lawyer at any time. When a client comes to us mid-case, the prior firm's lien for work already done is paid out of our fee, not on top of it. Your total percentage does not change because you changed lawyers.
If you are unhappy where you are, bring us the file. We will tell you honestly whether the case is being worked or parked, and moving it costs you nothing to find out.
The Real Numbers Start with a Free Conversation.
Bring your questions, your bills, and your skepticism. A licensed attorney walks you through how this arithmetic applies to your facts, the same business day you reach out.
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