Legal Question in Disability Law in Nevada

Re: Disability Discrimination

I assume you want an attorney to represent you on a contingency fee, meaning you don't pay a fee unless the attorney wins. I assume you also want the attorney to pay for all litigation costs out of the attorneys' pocket with the attorney only getting these costs back if he or she wins.

If an attorney accepts these terms--as we usually do in many car accident, product liability, and medical malpractice cases--the attorney wants to be pretty confident of winning a good fee.

If you can't find an attorney to represent you on these terms it is likely because of one of two reasons:

1) Chances of a good recovery aren't good either because of small damages or maybe because the defendant may not be likely to pay because the defendant may not have a lot of assets, or

2) Your insistence upon punitive damages might be telling attorneys: "This will be a very hard client to satisfy; I may get a good offer but the client won't take it because of there no being punitive damages; the client is not putting his or her own money into this case so the client may just be unreasonable with only my own money at risk."