Also, anyone suing for accident damages with the help of a no-win, no-fee lawyer - known as a conditional fee arrangement - will in future have to pay their lawyer's success fee from their own funds if they win their case and not add it to the bill of the losing party.

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Instead, they take information from customers and fill out legal forms on their behalf for things like divorces and bankruptcies--at a fraction of a typical lawyer's fee.

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Look upon that fee, if there is one, as you would a lawyer's consultation fee.

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It finds lawyers to work on contingency and pays 90% of litigants' other costs, including travel, expert witnesses and local counsel--in exchange for a lawyer-size fee: 30% to 50% of what's left after the lawyer takes his fee, perhaps 33% of a settlement.

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Law changes coming into effect in April 2013 include rebalancing no-win no-fee deals so losing defendants will no longer have to pay a fee to the claimant's lawyer.

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In April, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Cafra attorney's fee should be paid to the client, not directly to the lawyer.

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