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The Settlement Problem In Public Interest Law, Susan Carle
The Settlement Problem In Public Interest Law, Susan Carle
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Public interest lawyers, of many types and political persuasions, play a vital role in pursuing '"public justice." For public interest (as for all) lawyers, settlement provides an important means of resolving cases. Yet a persisting ambivalence about case settlement in public interest law contributes to the difficulties public interest practitioners face in sustaining themselves in practice. Indeed, public interest lawyers identify case settlement as posing some of the most vexing legal ethics problems they routinely confront.
The trouble often stems from the fact that, in public interest law where clients do not pay for legal services, the economic incentives that …