Legal Question in Business Law in California

Re: contingency agreement

Read your agreement with your attorney, it should provide you with the answer for this.

My assumption is...most likely you do.

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Re: contingency agreement

Read your Retainer Agreement; probably so. It is common to have the client responsible for costs, win, lose or draw.

Re: contingency agreement

Under state law, lawyers must submit fee disputes to arbitration if the client so desires. You may want to contact the bar association of the county in question regarding attorney-client fee arbitration procedures.

Re: contingency agreement

That depends upon what your contract says.

Re: contingency agreement

The client generally pays for costs and only the legal work is free in a contingency case, but this isn't always true - it depends on what the agreement between you and the attorney says (which you should have read and s/he should have made sure you understood, before the case got underway).