The 9th Circuit, en banc, has strongly endorsed a contingency fee approach, and rejected a lodestar approach, to attorney fees for prevailing Social Security litigants. Here, the prevailing attorney had a 25 % fee agreement, but reduced the requested rates to reflect the client’s recovery. Nonetheless, the resulting fee (in one of the 3 consolidated […]
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