Lawyer barons
Subtitle: what their contingency fees really cost America
By: Lester Brickman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9781107001220; 9780521189491
Subjects: Torts; Lawyers; Fees
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origin of the contingency fee; title: How profitable are contingency fees?; title: Are contingency fee profits "reasonable"?; title: How tort lawyers have increased their profits by restraining competition; title: Why the market has failed to correct the absence of price competition; title: Impediments imposed by the bar to price competition; title: The effects of incentives created by contingency fees; title: How the quest for profits influenced the development of the tort system; title: Lawyers' role in the expansion of tort liability; title: The role of the judiciary in tort system expansion; title: Current and future expansions of tort liability; title: The "litigation explosion" : fact or fiction?; title: Measures of the rate of expansion of tort liability; title: The relationship between injury rates and tort system costs; title: The impacts of substantial increases in tort lawyers' effective hourly rates; title: Class actions; title: Fees in class actions; title: How class action lawyers game fee setting; title: Securities class actions; title: Regulation through litigation; title: A new role for punitive damages : policy making as a profit center; title: For-profit partnerships between state attorneys general and contingency fee lawyers.