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Dawn Zimmer: This amendment assumes that the plaintiff gets the recovery and the plaintiff's attorney gets a piece of the action.…

On the recordMarch 6, 1995
This amendment assumes that the plaintiff gets the recovery and the plaintiff's attorney gets a piece of the action. Your amendment to the amendment would anticipate a situation where the defendant in fact would have a recovery? Or are you going to measure the defendant's lawyer's fee in terms of the recovery received by the plaintiff?
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Dawn Zimmer
New Jersey

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Discussing the implications of an amendment related to legal recoveries and attorney fees.

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