Fine by me because it will put a damper on this kind of carp.
Posted on 01/17/2026 12:48:11 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The long-simmering fight between some of L.A.’s best-known billboard attorneys and Uber, one of their most frequent targets, is poised to spill out of the courtroom and onto the November ballot.
The ride-share giant is gathering signatures for an initiative that, if passed by voters, would cap how much attorneys can earn in vehicle collision cases. The company pledges the change will give victims a larger cut of their settlement money, alleging predatory attorneys are inflating medical bills to increase their own profits.
Lawyers claim it will decimate their lucrative niche — car crash lawsuits in the automobile haven that is California — and ultimately leave thousands of people with small or challenging cases unable to sue because they can’t find an attorney.
This fight, lawyers say, is existential.
Attorneys from Sweet James and Jacoby & Meyers — the names and faces of which will be imprinted in the minds of most California drivers — have given almost $1 million to a committee opposing the ballot measure, according to campaign filings. Dozens of other deep-pocketed attorneys have joined, raising an impressive war chest already surpassing $46 million.
“Uber knows darn well what they’ve done,” said Nicholas Rowley, among those leading the opposition. “This law is designed to wipe out ordinary working people’s ability to get representation.”
Attorneys have condemned the fee cap as a Trojan horse meant to trick voters into wrecking the delicate math behind personal injury lawsuits. Currently, personal injury attorneys typically take...
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Uber’s proposal would cap attorney fees for car crash cases at 25% and require extra costs — filing fees, depositions, experts — to be calculated before the fee split rather than coming out of the client’s portion.
Shysters untie!
Exactly.
If the law restricts fees, no one will take the case.
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Fine by me because it will put a damper on this kind of carp.
The actual victim in the video would be the one who suffers when no lawyer will take the case because his fees would be capped.
Whatever you say, Counselor.
Uber drivers do a lot of urban driving, no surprise they would have fender-benders often. They also can’t do simple math or they wouldn’t drive Uber or Lyft, total ripoff. Analysis shows they clear about $10 an hour after expenses with auto depreciation being the big one they tend to ignore.
I could understand capping maximimm fees by dollar amount, but doing it by percentage will discourage them from taking smaller cases. I’m a defense guy and generally don’t side with the plaintiff’s bar, but the motive here is pretty transparent.
Poor baby’s. I signed the petition, at least I think we are talking about the same initiative and it lowers Attorneys fee cap from 33% to 25%
Well worth it if it drops the amount of Ambulance chaser TV adds from Morgan and Morgan, Larry H. Parker, Jacoby and Meyers, the Law Brothers and many others. Not a day goes by we aren’t subjected to 25 or more of these scumbags adds.
Anything to rid us of the bane of Morgan and Morgan, America’s biggest ambulance chasers. I’m in the Orlando market, so that’s all we see. This would affect their cash cow. Good.
One of the several local Michigan law firms has TV ads saying the other firms cheat clients by quietly agreeing to lower settlements so they can get the payoffs quickly without informing the clients and saying they were left with no choice by the opposition.
Amazing rarity in truth telling.
In my late uncle’s estate settlement in probate, one of the items on the long list of expenses by the law firm was “15 minutes, travel to post office to mail document.”
Part of Uber’s problem is it is a corporation, so you can get $4 million or whatever. If you get hit by some black person, you can probably only get their minimum $50K or whatever policy limits
Reducing the fees from 33 to 25% doesn’t sound like it will put the ambulance chasers out of business though and it may be hard to defeat.
Len Jacoby of Jacoby & Meyers died about a week ago.
i have an idea: hire drivers that don’t get in crashes ... i think i’ve caused only a single fender-bender in nearly sixty years of driving, including commuting for decades ...
It failed spectacularly because it got the name of an initiative limiting the "attorney fees you can pay your own lawyer". I expect the same to happen to this one.
That is exactly the idea.
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