Contingency Fee Practice
Duane Morris claims that it is unique among large law firms by maintaining an active contingency fee practice. Contingency fees contributed $15 to $20 million to the firm's gross revenue in 2009.
This practice raised concerns in the press after Duane Morris twice teamed up with the plaintiff firm of Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, which was founded by William Lerach, who was sentenced to prison for offering kickbacks to lead plaintiffs.
Duane Morris represented on contingency, six of the nine whistleblowers in a case against Eli Lilly in which the nine were rewarded with $78 million from the federal criminal settlement after Eli Lilly was found guilty of illegally marketing the anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa for off-label use.
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