Practice Tools

This is a sample co-counseling agreement in a class action involving legal aid and private attorneys, covering general cooperation and terms, attorney fees depending on whether they are based on fee-shifting or a common fund, costs and expenses, right to terminate, and appeals and separate legal actions.

This four-page document explains for a class representative information about a class action, the class representative, class certification, the duties of a class representative, and the benefits and responsibilities of being a class representative.

This is a five-page sample retainer letter concerning representation on a contingency basis. Another practice tool contains a shorter two-page retainer letter for representation on a contingent basis.