Other benefits likely to result from abolishing the contingency fee: All those ugly billboards along the I-10, I-12 and other highways and byways advertising plaintiff lawyer services, will disappear.

The CFA provides that a practitioner is legally only entitled to a contingency fee which does not exceed 25% of the amount recovered, or double his/her normal fee, whichever is the lesser amount.

Though Abogados Fuertes highlights the accessibility of a contingency fee personal injury attorney, they also wish to remind would-be clients that contingency fees don’t mean the work is free.