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| gvok | Aug 2 2005, 09:39 AM Post #76 |
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Should a doctor cover the costs of his patient's prescription medicine? Should a contractor cover the costs of the building materials? |
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| Dandandat | Aug 2 2005, 09:51 AM Post #77 |
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Once again a doctor has nothing to do with prescription medicine. For a doctor to do his job all he has to do is proscribe medication. If you want that medication you must go else where. A lawyer can not do his job with out the proper materials which he makes you pay for. For a proper analogy between a lawyer and a doctor. We would be talking about a doctor that charged you for the paper you sat on in the examination room, or the thang depressor he used, the specimen cup and ect. Contractors like mechanics are in a different category, they set flat fees for their work and you pick the materials you would like them to use. Lawyers in the cases we are talking about do not set flat fees, they take 1/3 off the top of the settlement, a settlement that your incidental cost helped to win, if they are going to benefit off of the incidental costs they should help carry the burden of them, which is why I said they should take their 1/3 after expenses. Do agents charge their clients 10% plus expenses? |
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| gvok | Aug 2 2005, 09:57 AM Post #78 |
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The 1/3 fee is contingent on winning the suit. In other words, the plaintiff does not pay the lawyer a fee if there is not a positive outcome. Generally, only plaintiff lawyers use that pay structure. Lawyers should get paid for their services just like anyone else. The costs of materials is passed along to the client just like in any other profession as well. Defense and transactional attorneys do charge flat fees or hourly rates. |
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| Dandandat | Aug 2 2005, 10:04 AM Post #79 |
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And their service requires that they have these materials so they should have the burden of providing it. |
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| gvok | Aug 2 2005, 10:06 AM Post #80 |
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Again, they're not doing anything different than any other profession. |
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| Dandandat | Aug 2 2005, 10:19 AM Post #81 |
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I think we went through this a few posts up and I explained how that ascertain is incorrect. |
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| gvok | Aug 2 2005, 10:20 AM Post #82 |
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Your explaination is a bit convoluted and unconvincing. |
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| Fesarius | Aug 2 2005, 10:20 AM Post #83 |
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In some cases, yes. |
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| gvok | Aug 2 2005, 10:25 AM Post #84 |
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In some (in many cases) lawyers pay for the costs of their own materials out of their pockets as well. BTW, this conversation does not even take into account the amount of pro bono work lawyers do. |
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| Dandandat | Aug 2 2005, 10:28 AM Post #85 |
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I do not agree. |
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| Admiralbill_gomec | Aug 2 2005, 11:35 AM Post #86 |
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Exactly. I pick up the expenses when I quote a project. Whether that includes software, additional information, subscriptions, or equipment needed to do a job. I'm not even talking about other incidentals, like landing the contract and what is involved there. |
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| who | Aug 2 2005, 11:44 AM Post #87 |
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Actually when I had minor surgery in a doctor's office I did not get charged for the surgical instuments and all the equipment and materials used. There was just one fee. When I had to see an attorney I was even charged for filing mail in their office by a paralegal at 1/3 the lawyer's fee. |
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| Dandandat | Aug 16 2005, 01:43 PM Post #88 |
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| WayneSTOSfan | Aug 16 2005, 01:49 PM Post #89 |
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EVERY one of them should have been dismissed...AND laughed out of court... Lawyers...HEROS of the world....... ![]() #2 is particularly aggravating You enter MY yard, you deserve what happens to you... |
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| who | Aug 16 2005, 02:09 PM Post #90 |
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This is from the news but I hear there was a settlement of $11 million dollars with the clerk that Russell Crowe threw the telephone at. This just not seem like justice. I wish someone rich and famous would throw a telephone at me. |
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