Search Results - subject:"CONTINGENT FEES"

Spier, Kathryn E.; Prescott, James J. - 2016

Two risk-averse litigants with different subjective beliefs negotiate in the shadow of a pending trial. Through contingent contracts, the litigants can mitigate risk and/or speculate on the trial outcome. The opportunity for contingent contracting decreases the settlement rate and increases the...

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Why plaintiffs' attorneys use contingent and defense attorneys fixed fee contracts

Emons, Winand; Fluet, Claude - 2013

prevails. Plaintiffs' attorneys offer contingent fees providing incentives to proceed with strong and drop weak cases. By …

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Why Plaintiffs' Attorneys Use Contingent and Defense Attorneys Fixed Fee Contracts

Emons, Winand; Fluet, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2013

prevails. Plaintiffs’ attorneys offer contingent fees providing incentives to proceed with strong and drop weak cases. By …

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Informational Externalities and Settlements in Mass Tort Litigations

LANGLAIS, Eric; Deffains, Bruno - EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense … - 2011

show that when contingent fees are used to reward attorneys' services, plaintiffs become neutral to the arrival of new …

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Informational Externalities and Settlements in Mass Tort Litigations

Deffains, Bruno; Langlais, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

show that when contingent fees are used to reward attorneys' services, plaintiffs become neutral to the arrival of new …

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Informational externalities and informational sharing in class action suits

Deffains, Bruno; Langlais, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

show that when contingent fees are used to reward attorneys' services, plaintiffs become neutral to the arrival of new …

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Good Law & Economics needs suitable microeconomic models: the case against the application of standard agency models to the professions

Sacconi, Lorenzo - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2006

professionals’ remuneration contingent on outcomes – i.e. “contingent fees” for lawyers. If the relationship between the … safeguarded, contingent fees leads to not respecting the fiduciary obligations with at least one client (to detriment of Pareto … clients’ rights, under a condition of minimal individual rationality - contingent fees lead nevertheless to neutralization of …

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"Third Party Contingency" contracts in settlement and litigation

Kirstein, Roland; Rickman, Neil - 2003

We present, for the first time, a model of recent institutional developments in litigation funding across several European jurisdictions. Recognizing the financing constraints that British cost rules may impose on litigants, these new contractual arrangements combine contingency fees with third...

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"Third Party Contingency" contracts in settlement and litigation

Kirstein, Roland; Rickman, Neil - Forschungsstelle zur ökonomischen Analyse des Rechts, … - 2003

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"Third Party Contingency" contracts in settlement and litigation

Kirstein, Roland; Rickman, Neil - 2002

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