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Lawyer Barons: What Their Contingency Fees Really Cost America
Lester Brickman
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Description for Lawyer Barons: What Their Contingency Fees Really Cost America
paperback. This book is an inquiry into how contingency fees distort our civil justice system, influence our political system and endanger democratic governance. Num Pages: 584 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 77.
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 senses that lawyers manipulate the justice system to serve their own ends, few are aware of the high costs that come with contingency fees. This book sets out to change that, providing a window into the seamy underworld of contingency fees that the bar and the courts not only tolerate but even protect and nurture. ... Read more
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 senses that lawyers manipulate the justice system to serve their own ends, few are aware of the high costs that come with contingency fees. This book sets out to change that, providing a window into the seamy underworld of contingency fees that the bar and the courts not only tolerate but even protect and nurture. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
Number of Pages
584
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521189491
SKU
V9780521189491
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About Lester Brickman
Lester Brickman is a Professor of Law and former Acting Dean at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, where he teaches contracts and legal ethics. He has written extensively on legal ethics and his writings have been widely cited in treatises, casebooks, scholarly journals and judicial opinions. Brickman is a leading authority on contingency fees and ... Read more
Reviews for Lawyer Barons: What Their Contingency Fees Really Cost America
'Around … interesting and sometimes telling tales of poor conduct, Brickman pieces together a wealth of critical claims about the tort system. The Cambridge Law Journal