contingent fee contract

contingent fee contract
A contract between an attorney at law and a client wherein the former agrees to represent the latter as the latter's attorney at law in the commencement and prosecution of a suit on behalf of the latter for a fee amounting to a certain percent of the amount of the judgment obtained in the action for the client, no charge to be made by the attorney against the client in the event the action is not successful in behalf of the client. In general, such contracts are valid, but they are made invalid by the inclusion of a condition whereby the attorney obligates himself to save the client harmless from costs and expenses of the litigation. 7 Am J2d Attys §§ 214 et seq.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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