{"id":4909,"date":"2004-07-16T18:51:43","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T22:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/07\/16\/news-flash-contingency-fee-co"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:36","slug":"news-flash-contingency-fee-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/07\/16\/news-flash-contingency-fee-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"news flash: contingency fee competition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><font><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/06\/27#a1700\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">one-breath pundit   <\/font><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/tv.gif\" alt=\"tv\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">p\/i firm <strong>Pennock, Breedlove &amp; Noll <\/strong>(Saratoga County, NY) makes <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairfeepromise.com\/fairfeepromise.htm\"><font color=\"red\" face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Fair Fee Promise<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> \u2014 tv ad abandons standard contingency fee.  [<em>ethicalEsq<\/em> is ecstatic: see <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prairielaw.com\/articles\/article.asp?channelId=29&amp;subId=124&amp;articleId=1336\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">here<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/06\/03#a21\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">here<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\">, and <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/04\/06#a1156\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\">where\u2019s the risk?<\/font><\/a><\/font><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">]<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\"><em><strong><font color=\"red\">update<\/font><\/strong><\/em> (excerpt from our post <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/contingency-fees-pt-1-of-4-market-failures\/\"><font color=\"#42aac8\">contingency fees: market failure<\/font><\/a>, April 3, 2006):<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">To my dismay, however, that firm \u2014 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbnlawyers.com\/\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><strong>Pennock, Breedlove &amp; Noll<\/strong><\/font><\/a><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> <strong>\u2013 <\/strong>which we<font color=\"black\"> <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/07\/16#a1821\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">praised<\/font><\/a><font color=\"black\" face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> in July 2004 after seeing its new tv ads, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairfeepromise.com\/fairfeepromise.htm\">removed<\/a> its <em>Fair Fee Promise<\/em> from its ads and website. [the URL <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairfeepromise.com\/\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">http:\/\/www.fairfeepromise.com\/<\/font><\/a><font color=\"black\" face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> now redirects you to <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbnlawyers.com\/\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">http:\/\/www.pbnlawyers.com\/<\/font><\/a><font color=\"black\" face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> ]  <\/font><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><font face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font size=\"1\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/FightingForYou.gif\" alt=\"FightingForYou\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbnlawyers.com\/\"><font size=\"1\"><em>pb&amp;n<\/em><\/font><\/a><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font size=\"1\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbnlawyers.com\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The PB&amp;N masthead logo has replaced \u201cFair Fee Promise\u201d with the innocuous, uninformative, and non-threatening (to other lawyers) \u201cFighting for You.\u201d Although the site\u2019s \u201cpersonal injury\u201d <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbnlawyers.com\/personalinjury.htm\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><strong>page<\/strong><\/font><\/a><font face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> still has the caption \u201cIT\u2019S OUR JOB TO GET YOU MORE, FOR LESS,\u201d there is currently not one word about fees on that page, nor any other, beyond saying they only take a fee if you win. I would love to know what prompted this change \u2014 and, especially whether there have been hints (subtle or not) from their p\/i colleagues that price competition is not acceptable in their guild.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>one-breath pundit p\/i firm Pennock, Breedlove &amp; Noll (Saratoga County, NY) makes Fair Fee Promise \u2014 tv ad abandons standard contingency fee. [ethicalEsq is ecstatic: see here, here, and where\u2019s the risk?] update (excerpt from our post contingency fees: market failure, April 3, 2006): To my dismay, however, that firm \u2014 Pennock, Breedlove &amp; Noll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1hb","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13727,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/13727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}