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Legal Education, Professionalism, And The Public Interest, Alfred C. Aman
Legal Education, Professionalism, And The Public Interest, Alfred C. Aman
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The Fruits Of Our Labors: An Empirical Study Of The Distribution Of Income And Job Satisfaction Across The Legal Profession, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Kaushik Mukhopadhaya
The Fruits Of Our Labors: An Empirical Study Of The Distribution Of Income And Job Satisfaction Across The Legal Profession, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Kaushik Mukhopadhaya
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In this study we undertake a simple empirical analysis to examine the distribution of pecuniary and nonpecuniary benefits across the legal profession. Using the University of Michigan alumni data set, we conduct a series of regressions to examine how the participants' self-reported income and job satisfaction vary across the legal profession according to type of practice, gender, and whether the respondent is black or Hispanic. Regression analysis allows us to undertake this analysis while correcting for the effects of several other variables, including years of practice, hours worked, law school grades, satisfaction with family life, and population of the respondent's …
Lawyers Seeking Clients, Clients Seeking Lawyers: Sources Of Contingency Fee Cases And Their Implications For Case Handling, Jayanth K. Krishnan, Herbert M. Kritzer
Lawyers Seeking Clients, Clients Seeking Lawyers: Sources Of Contingency Fee Cases And Their Implications For Case Handling, Jayanth K. Krishnan, Herbert M. Kritzer
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This paper examines the ways that Wisconsin contingency fee lawyers obtain clients. It draws upon a survey of Wisconsin practitioners, three months of observation in lawyers' offices, semi-structured interviews with practitioners, a survey of recipients of direct mail solicitations from Wisconsin contingency fee practitioners, and a survey of Wisconsin residents about whether they had predilections concerning which lawyer or law firm they would use should they have an injury claim. The analyses show that most lawyers draw the vast majority of their cases from a combination of referrals from prior clients, referrals from other lawyers (mostly uncompensated referrals), and repeat …
Is The Medium The Message? A Discussion Of Susskind's The Future Of Law, Edwin H. Greenebaum
Is The Medium The Message? A Discussion Of Susskind's The Future Of Law, Edwin H. Greenebaum
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