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(Salt Lake City-AP) -- Lawyers in Utah and a dozen other states are trying to make attorneys' fees more reasonable.
A group of Utah lawyers says attorneys' fees for plaintiffs who win court settlements are usually 30 to 40 percent -- regardless of how much work the attorney actually had to do to get the settlement.
The group Common Good says they have a simple proposal: If a civil case is resolved with an early settlement, attorneys' fees would be capped at 10 percent of the first 100-thousand dollars, and five percent of anything above that.
If the case involved more work, the lawyers would be able to charge more.
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