If Tucker & Ludin agrees to represent you in your Social Security Disability or SSI claim, we will handle your case using a 25% contingency fee of your past due benefits. That means that if you do not recover any past due benefits, then you do not have to pay our law firm any attorney fee. The fee is capped at a maximum contingency fee of $5300 (five thousand three hundred dollars).
Why is a contingency fee good for you? Simply put, we have a vested interest in you winning. If you lose, we do not get paid for our time on your case. We need to help you win, and we don't take cases that we don't think can be won. So, if we take your case, you can rest assured that we are working as hard as possible to make sure you win.
Here is the actual portion of our fee contract which explains the contingency fee:
As compensation for my attorney’s services, I agree to pay my attorney a fee equal to the following:
One of the things that distinguishes our law firm from other Social Security representatives is that we will advance the costs on your case. That means that you do not have the pay the costs as you go. We believe that spending money to get more than just your medical records seriously increases your chances of winning. We may ask your doctors to fill out forms we create for them or request that a special test be performed (such as a Functional Capacity Evaluation). We may hire a Vocational Expert to offer an opinion about your ability to work. Rarely do the total costs exceed one to two months of your benefits.
We find that it is well worth it to spend the money, because it has helped us achieve over a 98% win rate in our SSD and SSI cases. That is not a guarantee that you will win, but we believe that spending money on expert opinions can be money well spent.
We know that you are scared about money problems now that you are disabled, but you are hiring us to win your case. Our job is to solve your problem, and that is getting your claim paid. You do not want to handle your case on the cheap. If you want us to skimp on costs, you will tie our hands, and may easily find yourself 2 or 3 years down the road having lost the case and being without any money. To spend an amount equal to approximately one month of benefits to help you get SSD or SSI until you are age 65 is well worth it.
Keep this in mind too....we will not needlessly spend money, because at any time, we have well over $200,000 in advanced costs outstanding. That is our money that has been spent. We don't want to waste our money just like we don't want to waste your money.
If you do not agree with our philosophy, we are not the right law firm for you. Understand that, unlike attorney fees, you are obligated to reimburse the firm the amount of the costs that are paid on your case whether you win or lose. In other words, paying for costs is not contingent on winning the case. However, we will discuss significant expenses with you before you are obligated to pay us anything. Again, rest assured that we would not advance costs on your case if we did not think it is helping the case and that we can win it.
