This is an agreement (the “Agreement”) between you and Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman LLC (“MCBPG”), the Arnold Law Firm APC (“ALF”), and Siri & Glimstad LLP (“SG”) for legal representation for your claims against Avis Rent A Car System, LLC and Avis Budget Group, Inc. (“Avis”) for potential violations of state and federal privacy laws. If applicable, you are representing that you have authority and legal capacity to pursue this claim.
You understand and authorize MCBPG, ALF, and SG to proceed with filing your claims as an individual arbitration. Arbitration is a simplified means of pursuing legal claims, where the claim is decided by an arbitrator rather than a judge or jury. However, this agreement also authorizes MCBPG, ALF, and SG to settle your claim as a part of a class action if Avis chooses to do so. MCBPG, ALF, and SG intend to secure the maximum recovery for your claims. However, you authorize MCBPG, ALF, and SG to resolve your claims with Avis for, at a minimum, a one-hundred-dollar ($100.00) value. You also authorize and give your attorneys’ express authorization and permission to settle your claim in a group of claimants and release your claim in a Master Settlement Agreement (or similarly titled document) that includes other claimants with claims similar to yours.
Our firms will handle this matter with a contingent fee of the greater of either forty percent (40%), as allowed by state law, of any recovery obtained in this matter or a total attorneys’ fees awarded by the arbitrator or court. We reserve the right to associate any co-counsel, but our fee will be split among our firms and any firm(s) we associate.
We will advance all costs incurred by our firms during this litigation (e.g., filings fees, travel, etc.). We will be reimbursed for these costs if, and only if, we ultimately obtain a recovery. Advanced costs are deducted after the calculation of the contingent fee.
You authorize MCBPG, ALF, and SG to withdraw from our representation if we determine for sufficient reasons that the case should not continue. Regardless, we will maintain the file on this matter for at least six years. If requested, these files will be returned to you after the conclusion of the representation.
Finally, we do not make any promises or guarantees regarding the outcome of your claims. If you have any questions about the foregoing, please advise. We would appreciate your returning a signed copy of this engagement letter to us for our files.