How Does a Personal Injury Attorney Get Paid?

Your attorney in a personal injury case typically gets paid on a contingency fee basis. And that percentage that the attorney gets paid is contracted in that original contract that we do when you hire us. Our fee in a typical car wreck case is thirty-three percent. And most of our cases settle without having to file a lawsuit and go to court and all that. So our fee is typically thirty-three percent.

So when the case settles down the road, let’s say the case settles for twelve thousand dollars, then my fee is four thousand dollars. If the medical bills that we actually have to pay ended up being three thousand dollars, then that leaves five thousand dollars in your pocket to compensate you for your pain and suffering, for your mental anguish, and for the trouble of going through all this.