This paper reviews and analyzes extant data on the effective hourly rates achieved from contingency fee cases and reports detailed analyses of data from a survey of Wisconsin contingency fee practitioners. The analyses emphasize the need to examine returns across sets of cases rather than on a...

This paper examines changing patterns in the politics of judicial selection in the United States. Central to the discussion is that judicial selection in the U.S. has always had a strong political element. Recent changes in the politics of judicial selection reflect a shift from the politics of...