Lawyers on Trial: Juror Hostility to Defendants in Legal Malpractice Trials
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An enduring question in the study of civil justice is whether certain types of parties are advantaged or disadvantaged as litigants. Professor Marc Galanter’s classic essay, Why the “Haves” Come Out Ahead: Speculations on the Limits of Legal Change, raises this question in terms of resources and experience and has been the subject of extensive testing. Other research has examined whether certain demographic factors, such as race or gender, disadvantage plaintiffs, whether
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