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Lawyer barons : what their contingency fees really cost America
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Title
Lawyer barons : what their contingency fees really cost America / Lester Brickman.
ISBN
9781107001220 (hardback : alk. paper)
1107001226 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780521189491 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0521189497 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xxv, 556 pages ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 23, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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
Why the market has failed to correct the absence of price 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
A new role for punitive damages : policy making as a profit center
For-profit partnerships between state attorneys general and contingency fee lawyers.
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