In a personal injury case, is a plaintiff entitled to an additional fee for attorney fees based on contingent risk, exceptional skill or other factors?
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The following excerpt is from Orr v. Cal. Highway Patrol, CIV. NO. 2:14-585 WBS EFB (E.D. Cal. 2015):
in payment of attorney fees." Ketchum v. Moses, 24 Cal. 4th 1122, 1138 (2001). "[T]he trial court is not required to include a fee enhancement to the basic lodestar figure for contingent risk, exceptional skill, or other factors, although it retains discretion to do so in the appropriate case." Id.
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