In response, Royal Mail said it had been working on contingency plans should strike action be held.
In Australia and the United Kingdom, loser-pays rules and prohibitions on contingency fees created a gap in the availability of legal services.
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He added that USPS should increase its focus on contingency planning.
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If you hire a lawyer on contingency and settle a lawsuit, a third or more of the money will be paid directly to your lawyer.
Military officials said they are working on contingency plans if Messrs.
Hollande has recruited international support from the IMF and the OECD for Eurobonds while a war of words between unnamed officials on contingency plans for a possible Grexit did nothing more than further muddle the situation.
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It finds lawyers to work on contingency and pays 90% of litigants' other costs, including travel, expert witnesses and local counsel--in exchange for a lawyer-size fee: 30% to 50% of what's left after the lawyer takes his fee, perhaps 33% of a settlement.
Facing massive losses from their real estate investments that had been sold to them as a Reg D Security, it is not hard to find and cultivate willing Claimants.. After all, the cases are taken on contingency and Claimants are looking for any source of funding for their losses.
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MEPs and the EU governments, which are collectively called the Council, have not yet agreed on a contingency fund to deal with emergencies, nor on financing of the Iter nuclear fusion project.
Suing people is fun, especially when you can get a lawyer to take the case on a contingency basis.
Are these funds sophisticated when hiring lawyers to recover investment losses on a contingency basis but unsophisticated when it comes to hiring financial advisers?
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The firm is handling the lawsuit on a contingency basis, meaning that it will only be paid a significant sum if it actually wins the lawsuit.
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There is no shortage of lawyers willing to take on a contingency fee case with a reasonable chance of success and the possibility of significant recovery.
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The judge also asked the law firms to explain how their proposed fee compares to what an individual client would pay on a contingency basis in a similar case.
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The law firms typically agree to take the cases on a contingency basis that means no fees up front but a huge share (30% or more) of any settlement or jury verdict.
As long as an entity with zero assets and nothing to lose can hire a firm on a contingency to threaten another entity with everything to lose, the scales will be tipped in their favor.
Similarly, trying to get a lawyer to take your case on a contingency when the public customer got a six-figure settlement (even if only a fraction of what was sought), might prove difficult if not impossible.
He stressed, though, that there is no financing contingency on the deal.
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The AHVLA also plans to make sure a vet is within an hour of the port and has vowed to work with transport operators on new emergency contingency measures.
Mike Corden, chairman of City of Sheffield Athletic Club, said efforts needed to be focused on making that "contingency plan" work.
To apportion forces appropriately, the relevant Combatant Commanders based their contingency planning on the assumption that the two concurrent MTWs would develop sequentially.
And the focus of our planning is on implementing all of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, not on any sort of contingency plan.
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Peers also put questions to the government on DEFRA's contingency funding for disease outbreaks, elections in Zimbabwe, and ensuring airport authorities can deal with snow and ice.
Boies left Cravath in 1997 after a dispute over representing Yankees baseball owner George Steinbrenner in his suit against Major League Baseball. (Time Warner, which owned the Atlanta Braves, was one of Cravath's biggest clients.) It didn't help that Boies had a history of blabbing to the press and taking on high-stakes contingency-fee cases, anathema to some partners at Cravath.
All of the extra servicemen had been on standby for such a contingency.
Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie called on the Scottish government to publish contingency savings plans for this year and allow the parliament to debate them.
"Around one million contingency tickets will go on sale to those who have previously applied for tickets - with priority given to those who have not been allocated any tickets so far, " said a spokesman.
The Chamber certainly has the right to fight for their contingency but should keep it on a level playing field.
But for the most part the effect of the crisis on education seems to be confined to contingency planning, with councils saying that another day or two would bring more widespread problems.
The court reasoned that Alabama's pro-lawyer laws give contingency lawyers such a strong claim on their clients' winnings that the lawyer's cut is in no way income to the client.
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