retainer
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These are common in personal injury cases, because the clients often don’t have the wherewithal to pay a lawyer’s retainer fee in advance.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026
Without having proxy advisers on retainer, annual meetings are dominated by those who do: asset managers and activist investors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2025
"In the American version, it's a very expensive format, having a writers' room and keeping a cast of actors on retainer, essentially, the whole time. That's really expensive," Lewis told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025
He also insisted that his client only ever paid Cohen for his legal work, subject to a retainer that was never documented.
From Salon • May 29, 2024
The yearbook group pays him a retainer because he says his time is too valuable to work on puerile and fleeting pursuits like the high school yearbook for free.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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