And the gentleman keeps talking about a contingency basis, but many of those are on hourly rate, and so the plaintiff does pay legal fees in many of these cases on an hourly rate, and it is pretty doggone high. So this contingency thing is real, but that is not 100 percent.
Dan Burton: “And the gentleman keeps talking about a contingency basis, but many of those are on hourly rate, and so the plaintiff…”
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