Risks, reputations, and rewards
Subtitle: contingency fee legal practice in the United States
By: Herbert M. Kritzer.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Lawyers -- Fees -- United States; Law offices -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The political economy of the American contingency fee; title: A profile of Wisconsin's contingency fee practitioners and their contingency fee cases; title: Clients seeking lawyers, lawyers seeking clients : finding and screening potential cases; title: The work of the contingency fee lawyer; title: Understanding settlement negotiations; title: Cashing out the investment; title: The role of reputation in contingency fee practice; title: Conclusion : praying for justice or preying on justice?