John Edwards (D-NC), the vice presidential nominee in 2004, used an S-Corp to reduce his self-employment tax (the S-Corp loophole) on tens of millions of dollars in legal fee income, whereas Gov. Romney did not seek to use this S-Corp. self-employment tax reduction strategy.

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She added that the move to more "no win no fee" legal cases had increased costs and now amounted to 30% of cases against doctors and 50% of cases against dentists and the same was probably true for hospital staff.

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As legal departments institute increasingly creative alternative fee arrangements to predict and control costs, they need objective data in order to negotiate rates.

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Some question whether these restrictions on contingent fee work are fair or legal.

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Under the agreement, a retailer that has stores in these states where the surcharge is illegal is prohibited from imposing the fee in states where it is legal.

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But even if she does pay her court fee, it sounds like this lawsuit will not find a friend in the legal system.

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But Powell punctured this legal fiction in a dissent, noting that the lawyer was operating under a contingency-fee agreement and the plaintiff bore no responsibility for the costs.

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The number of legal actions against doctors has soared since the law was changed to allow no-win no-fee and the medical litigation industry has boomed.

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Several funds told FORBES they follow a convention in which half the NTF fee (up to 0.2%) is charged to investors, just as accounting or legal fees or some marketing fees are, and the other half comes from the fund sponsor.

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