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On the recordMarch 7, 1995
But actually it applies to both the defendant and the plaintiff. The plaintiff is not the only one that could be caught paying the other person's fees. But I can tell the gentleman that you can limit the amount of money you may have to pay by prior to 10 days before trial making your final offer and you will not have to pay the fees that have accrued prior to that time. You many be able to strike under the present bill a large percent of what you might otherwise have had to pay. But I do think that if you go down from there and have only 25 percent of what would accrue from that time forward, you do not have very much left out of your loser pays.
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William Moorhead
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Discussing the implications of a bill related to legal fees during a floor debate.

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