Archive for October, 2009
October 25th, 2009 | 
Author: Murder Rates (per 1 million people)
1st Columbia 618
2nd South Africa 496 
3rd Jamaica 324
5th Russia 202
24th United States 43
30th Finland 28
40th France 17
60th Japan 5
Crime Rates (per 1 million people)
1st Dominica 114,000
2nd New Zealand 106,000
3rd Finland 102,000
4th Denmark 93,000
5th Child 88,000
6th United Kingdom 86,000
8th United States 80,000
10th South Africa 77,000
31st Russia 21,000
37th Jamaica 14,000
59th India 1,000
Columbia is the world leader in murder rates, with 618 murders for every million people. It is significantly high than South Africa, which is second. Jamaica and Venezuela are the next two with Russia the highest European country with 202 murders for every million. The number of murders in the United States has fallen to 43 per million, but figures for Eastern Europe has generally risen.
In many cases the trends differ for crime rates in general. Dominica has the most recorded crime followed by New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, Chile and the United Kingdom.
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Contingency fees are often a key component in cases that have the potential for a very high payoff for the client that does not have the resources or desire to pay a law firm by the hour.
A contingency fee is the cost of legal representation when payment to an attorney is based upon a percentage of what a client receives in a settlement or judgment. While contingency cases are well-known to the public in the personal injury realm, business contingency cases can also be extremely viable for clients that have a business law issue. In either specialty, when a case comes along that a company does not have the resources to pay thousands, if not millions, of dollars in legal fees, the case is frequently dropped out or not engaged initially out of economic necessity. Contingency fees allow these cases to be pursued.
The trick of expertly handling contingency cases is to combine large-firm expertise with small-firm attention while reducing overhead.
The best business law firms in a given state or region are renowned for successful outcomes achieved in at least one or two, and preferably several, well-chosen contingency cases. Certain prudent firms versed in business contingency cases may carry three or more promising contingency cases at all times. A single such case may consume up to 20 percent of a firm’s available time, but typically generates between 40 and 50 percent of the same firm’s revenues.
The crucial part of any business firm’s contingency strategy is that these cases must be well chosen. The ideal formula is to have a relatively small number of such cases in the game, as a loss in a time-consuming and hard fought contingency case could seriously impair even the most aggressive firm’s bottom line.