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Liability Risk and Insurance

Law partners can reclaim firm’s costs in their successful defence

Where the partner in a law firm is successfully defended by members of that firm, these costs can be reclaimed. Further, where partnership deeds provide that partners will not be charged for such services except where costs are recovered, this does not amount to illegal contingency fees.

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