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Fee-Shifting Statutes And Compensation For Risk, Maureen Carroll Oct 2020

Fee-Shifting Statutes And Compensation For Risk, Maureen Carroll

Indiana Law Journal

A law firm that enters into a contingency arrangement provides the client with more than just its attorneys’ labor. It also provides a form of financing, because the firm will be paid (if at all) only after the litigation ends; and insurance, because if the litigation results in a low recovery (or no recovery at all), the firm will absorb the direct and indirect costs of the litigation. Courts and markets routinely pay for these types of risk-bearing services through a range of mechanisms, including state feeshifting statutes, contingent percentage fees, common-fund awards, alternative fee arrangements, and third-party litigation funding. …


Confirm Myra Selby For The Seventh Circuit, Carl W. Tobias Jan 2017

Confirm Myra Selby For The Seventh Circuit, Carl W. Tobias

Indiana Law Journal

This Article canvasses Myra Selby’s dynamic professional record, the federal judicial selection process under President Obama, and the Seventh Circuit. It ascertains that Selby is an exceptionally competent, mainstream prospect and that the appellate court requires all of its members to deliver justice. However, Republican senators did not collaborate, particularly after they had captured a Senate majority—a circumstance that this presidential election year aggravates. The last section, therefore, proffers recommendations for Selby’s prompt Senate consideration and confirmation.


The Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Be Compelled To Render The Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel, Richard Klein Apr 1993

The Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Be Compelled To Render The Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel, Richard Klein

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Successful Trial Tactics, By A. S. Cutler, Lloyd Paul Stryker Jul 1949

Successful Trial Tactics, By A. S. Cutler, Lloyd Paul Stryker

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Power Of The Indiana Supreme Court To Disbar Apr 1943

Power Of The Indiana Supreme Court To Disbar

Indiana Law Journal

Notes and Comments: Attorneys


Court And Court Officers Jan 1943

Court And Court Officers

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Power Of Supreme Court To Disbar Aug 1942

Power Of Supreme Court To Disbar

Indiana Law Journal

Notes and Comments: Attorneys


Judges And Other Court Officers In Indiana Feb 1940

Judges And Other Court Officers In Indiana

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Inherent Power Of The Judiciary, Henry M. Dowling Dec 1935

The Inherent Power Of The Judiciary, Henry M. Dowling

Indiana Law Journal

Address delivered by Henry M. Dowling of the Indianapolis Bar at the Annual Meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association September 7, 1935; first published in the October American Bar Association Journal and reprinted here with permission of that journal.


News Of Bench And Bar Jun 1931

News Of Bench And Bar

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


News Of Bench And Bar May 1931

News Of Bench And Bar

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


News Of Bench And Bar Apr 1931

News Of Bench And Bar

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


News Of Bench And Bar Mar 1931

News Of Bench And Bar

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


News Of Bench And Bar Nov 1930

News Of Bench And Bar

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Indiana Docket Mar 1930

Indiana Docket

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket) Mar 1927

Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket)

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Instructions To Clients And Witnesses, James M. Ogden Feb 1927

Instructions To Clients And Witnesses, James M. Ogden

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket) May 1926

Recent Case Notes (And Indiana Docket)

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


News Of Bench And Bar Feb 1926

News Of Bench And Bar

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.