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Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

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Contingent Fee: Champerty Or Champion, Arthur L. Kraut Jan 1972

Contingent Fee: Champerty Or Champion, Arthur L. Kraut

Cleveland State Law Review

In 1952, an article appeared in Reader's Digest magazine castigating both the contingent fee system of financing litigation and the trial lawyers of the United States. Since that article appeared, the client public has been barraged with a stream of propaganda aimed at barring the use of the contingent fee as a means of retaining a lawyer.


Reasonable Fee And Professional Discipline, William C. Romell Jan 1965

Reasonable Fee And Professional Discipline, William C. Romell

Cleveland State Law Review

The question propounded by this article is - what exactly is the "reasonable" fee, and conversely under what conditions may a fee be adjudged so unreasonable that the legal profession may administer justifiable discipline to the attorney charging such a fee?