Fees
Victims of negligence often do not consider hiring an attorney and filing a lawsuit because they believe lawyers all charge by the hour and at high rates. However, in personal injury and medical malpractice cases, lawyers usually don't charge by the hour, they work on a contingent fee basis.
Do not let money prevent you from seeking the truth and justice you deserve. Under the contingent fee arrangement clients don't pay on an hourly basis. Our law firm earns a fee only when we are successful in winning money damages. Not only that, the fee is an agreed upon percentage of the amount recovered, which ordinarily doesn't change regardless of the size of the settlement.
Contingent fees make it possible for anyone to hire only the very best lawyer to decide if there are grounds for a claim, without paying for that advice. More importantly, it gives everyone access to the justice system and representation equal to the best that defendants can hire.
Wobbrock & Lane Trial Lawyers, P.C. provides your initial consultation free of charge. If we accept your case, we will charge a fee based upon a percentage of the recovery obtained either by settlement or jury verdict. If we are unable to collect money for you, no fee is charged.
Compensation for personal injury and medical malpractice cases comes in two main forms, pursuant to ORS 31.710:
- Economic damages: defined as objectively verifiable monetary losses including but not limited to reasonable charges necessarily incurred for medical, hospital, nursing and rehabilitative services and other health care services, burial and memorial expenses, loss of income and past and future impairment of earning capacity, reasonable and necessary expenses incurred for substitute domestic services, recurring loss to an estate, damage to reputation that is economically verifiable, reasonable and necessarily incurred costs due to loss of use of property and reasonable costs incurred for repair or for replacement of damaged property, whichever is less.
- Non-Economic Damages: defined as subjective, non-monetary losses, including but not limited to pain, mental suffering, emotional distress, humiliation, injury to reputation, loss of care, comfort, companionship and society, loss of consortium, inconvenience and interference with normal and usual activities apart from gainful employment.