re: Why does it seem like Lawyers are more valued than Engineers or Scientists

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Really? So, if I hire you as my attorney and you bill $100.00 a hour, but we agree on a 1/3 contingency fee. I win a $100,000 settlement that you worked 20 hours on. You'd get the $33,000 contingency + $2,000 billable hours?

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Billing your hours and accounting your time spent on a case are two different things.
You account for your time when you bill. You don't necessarily have to bill when you account for your time.

If a contingency client has a question or concern about what time I spent on his case, I have documentation providing them time spent and the activity taking up that time.


Yes, usually contingency fees are associated with personal injury cases.

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So, on a contingency, you log or track your work and hours (ex: 0.2 hours writing letter to opposing counsel, 2.5 hours deposing expert witness Dr. Stewie, etc) but you don't "bill" for that time.

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If it's a traditional contingency fee contract, I would think not. However, one should still account for their time and report that to a client on a regular basis.

Getting back to the point to which I replied, do engineers have contingency fee contracts? And what are the customary hourly rates for engineering firms? I honestly don't know.

And just so it's known, I don't think attorneys seem more valued than engineers or scientist in today's society.
If anything I'd say they are more despised.