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.
Cornwall is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,434 at the 2000 census. In 1939 poet Mark Van Doren wrote "The Hills of Little Cornwall", a short poem in which the beauties of the countryside were portrayed as seductive: The mind, eager for caresses, Lies down at its own risk in Cornwall;