In Re Abrams & Abrams, Pa

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• holding that “fixing a lodestar fee in this contingency case was error”
• finding that the district court erred by neglecting to give the contingency fee “the weight it was due” in the analogous federal law fee award, analysis
• emphasizing that contingency fee agreements “help secure for the impecunious access both to counsel and to court”
• finding that the district court erred by reducing the attorney’s fee to a level that few attorneys would accept at the outset of a contingency representation due to the risk involved
• noting that the reasonableness standard is one Congress and many courts have adopted
• noting that the reasonableness standard is one Congress and many courts have adopted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).