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Lawyer barons : what their contingency fees really cost America /
This book is a broad and deep inquiry into how contingency fees distort our civil justice system, influence our political system and endanger democratic governance. Contingency fees are the way personal injury lawyers finance access to the courts for those wrongfully injured. Although the public sen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The origin of the contingency fee
- How profitable are contingency fees?
- Are contingency fee profits "reasonable"?
- How tort lawyers have increased their profits by restraining competition
- Impediments imposed by the bar to price competition
- The effects of incentives created by contingency fees
- How the quest for profits influenced the development of the tort system
- Lawyers' role in the expansion of tort liability
- The role of the judiciary in tort system expansion
- Current and future expansions of tort liability
- The litigation explosion : "fact or fiction"?
- Measures of the rate of expansion of tort liability
- The relationship between injury rates and tort system costs
- The impacts of substantial increases in tort lawyers' effective hourly rates
- Class actions
- Fees in class actions
- How class action lawyers game fee setting
- Securities class actions
- Regulation through litigation
- For-profit partnerships between state attorneys general and contingency fee lawyers.