Government
Feb. 20, 2009
Senate Bills Tackle Contingency Fee Questions
The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee introduced a pair of bipartisan bills last week aiming to fix tax issues related to contingency fees that plaintiffs' lawyers have long called unfair.
Daily Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee introduced a pair of bipartisan bills last week aiming to fix tax issues related to contingency fees that plaintiffs' lawyers have long called unfair. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., submitted a bill to allow attorneys to deduct expenses they spend on contingency fee cases as business expenses in the year they were outlaid, instead of when th...
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