Jackie Myers wrote: > The cost to the pro bono plaintiff's lawyer is his/her own time > and filing fees. However, the defendent must pay attorneys' fees > to fight the claim which can and sometimes does bring tremendous > financial burden to the defendent. I'm not a lawyer [thank gods] and I'd really rather be talking about kayaks, but I think you meant "contingency," as in "I get 40% if we win" rather than "pro bono," which is Latin for "I make an obscene amount of money, so I can afford to do a few freebies." -- Steve Cramer Athens, GA *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Aug 04 2004 - 06:05:45 PDT
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