Is it normal for plaintiff lawyer to make no base salary?

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No. Is this a very small firm? Only a partner would have no base. They’d have to be offering a big cut of each case for it to make sense and it’d be very tough cash flow wise, especially at first. And make sure you check what happens with pending cases if you leave the firm.

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I have heard of plaintiffs worker’s compensation firms that do that, but theoretically it’s high volume ans relatively low exposure so they just churn a lot of files and get a lot of little settlements so it adds up without much lag time

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