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.
Sherman is a city in and the county seat of Grayson County, Texas, United States. The city's estimated population as of 2008 was 38,077. It is also one of two principal cities in the Sherman-Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area.