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2012

Alternative fee paradigms

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Show Me The Money: Part Two, Monetizing The “Value Added” Of Attorneys Who Serve As Mediators And Arbitrators, Elayne E. Greenberg Jan 2012

Show Me The Money: Part Two, Monetizing The “Value Added” Of Attorneys Who Serve As Mediators And Arbitrators, Elayne E. Greenberg

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In the oft-told fable “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” the candid, uncensored observations of a young child that the Emperor’s “new clothes” weren’t clothes at all but actually the emperor’s nudity, freed the rest of the townspeople to finally acknowledge the jarring reality that their the emperor was naked. And so, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” has become a metaphor for having the courage to see things as they actually are, not for what we are incorrectly told they are. In Part One of this column, I began the discussion of how settlement-savvy lawyers might realistically use alternative fee paradigms instead …