I received a contract from a personal injury attorney. It states that he will receive 40%, and that expenses (even his) will come out of my portion. There’s no cap on his "expenses" so how can I protect my 60% from being eaten up? I see no point in wasting time pursuing a case that gains me little or nothing.
BTW this is about the Jif Peanut Butter/Salmonella thing, which I assume will be a class action suite.
Can I request a contract stating the limit of expenses? And if they say no…..run the other way!
Great answers!
And to clarify Stay_Fan1: I will not know if I or my children contracted Salmonella or not until our jar of peanut butter is tested. I do know that I was sick for an entire month (after not being ill for 3 years). I do know that 2 of my son’s were also sick during same time period.
Might be coincidence, might be salmonella. The attorney is paying for testing of the P butter. If it’s clear, then no case. If it’s not, then I don’t feel guilty about pursuing legal action. A company as big as Con Agra should have stringent quality control and batch testing. If they didn’t, shame on them!

Running out of viable ideas and time to locate a legal malpractice attorney in the Los Angeles area.

I’m aware of most of the principle websites, but keep wasting time linking to the spam & ad types.

Any suggestions on websites or other types of ways to locate an attorney?

I got a DWI in Long Island in May 2008. Many city jobs require you to pay .00. to take a exam. I would I be wasting time and money taking any jobs for the city , state , federal or postal?