A contingent fee is when an attorney charges dependent upon a successful outcome in the case. It is often agreed to be a percentage of the total recovery to the client. Such fee arrangements are often used in negligence cases and other civil actions but not for criminal defense or divorce actions.
Meyers Chuck is a neighborhood in the City and Borough of Wrangell, Alaska, United States. The population was 21 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a census-designated place (CDP) in the former Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area. On June 1, 2008 it was annexed into the newly created City and Borough of Wrangell, most of whose territory came from the former Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area.