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How Much Is That Lawsuit In The Window? Pricing Legal Claims, Maya Steinitz
How Much Is That Lawsuit In The Window? Pricing Legal Claims, Maya Steinitz
Vanderbilt Law Review
Assessing the value of legal claims is the sixty-four thousand dollar question (no pun intended) of civil litigation. Clients, as every litigator knows, often come into their attorneys' offices with a belief that they know how much their claim is worth. The attorney is then asked to validate that number. Alternately, clients can come to their attorneys with a grievance-I have been injured, a counter-party breached its contract with me, I have been fired, our rainforest has been devastated by a mining company-and ask the attorney for an assessment of how much their grievance might be worth. Contingency lawyers, who …