162.1 "Actual benefit secured" for the purposes of Section 2327 of the Act (D.C. Official Code § 1-623.27) means the total established amount of benefits secured by an attorney in connection with a hearing or court proceeding through the date of the compensation order only and shall not include any amount offered in settlement prior to a hearing or future benefits.

162.2 Attorney's fees awarded under Section 2327 of the Act shall be computed at sixty percent (60%) of the most current United States Attorney's Office Attorney's Fees Matrix. In no event shall the attorney's fees exceed twenty percent (20%) of the actual benefits secured as of the issuance date of the compensation order.

SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 28 DCR 2307 (May 22, 1981); as amended by Emergency and Proposed Rulemaking published at 57 DCR 9540 (October 8, 2010)[EXPIRED]; as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 57 DCR 12224, 12229 (December 24, 2010); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 8766, 8771 (July 27, 2012); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 64 DCR 6325 (July 7, 2017); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 66 DCR 4246 (April 5, 2019).