it’s not going to cost you anything totalk to a civil attorney and these cases are usually handled on a contingency basis so rather than paying the attorney an hourly fee for his or her time they’ll take a portion of whatever’s recovered in the case they will also pay all of the litigation expenses expert fees filing fees deposition transcript they’ll pay that upfront and get reimbursed from the proceeds of your case you should never ever give money to an attorney in one of these cases if this case works the only way thing that should happen is for the attorney to be giving money to you.