Contingent Fees for Legal Services

Name: Contingent Fees for Legal Services
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Examines the ethical and economic questions within the legal profession or ethical theory in general. This book describes the historical, professional and economic context within which contingent fees developed. It is suitable for those concerned with reforms of the fee system - lawyers, judges, professors, plaintiffs and defendants. > The practice of contingent fees - taking a percentage share of the money recovered for damage or injury - began among lawyers as a method of providing legal services for those unable to afford counsel. It is now the dominant method of financing litigation for both rich and poor. F. B. MacKinnon, in this book, examines the ethical and economic questions within the legal profession or ethical theory in general.\""Contingent Fees for Legal Services\"" is a thoroughly documented study undertaken by the American Bar Foundation, the research affiliate of the American Bar Association. It provides the information necessary for evaluating the present status ofy