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Torts/Personal Injury,
Law Practice

Oct. 29, 2021

Give more money to clients, limit contingency fees

California voters will likely have a chance in the November 2022 general election to enact a long-overdue consumer protection law, one that bars lawyers from gouging their clients with exorbitant percentage recovery fees. Several initiatives now before the California attorney general for title and summary will soon be circulated to gather enough voter signatures to put at least one such measure on the ballot.

Fred J. Hiestand

General Counsel
Fred J. Hiestand, APC

Phone: (916) 448-5100

Email: fred@fjh-law.com

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California voters will likely have a chance in the November 2022 general election to enact a long-overdue consumer protection law, one that bars lawyers from gouging their clients with exorbitant percentage recovery fees. Several initiatives now before the California attorney general for title and summary will soon be circulated to gather enough voter signatures to put at least one such measure on the ballot.

Three similarly proposed initi...

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