The optimality of contingent fees in the agency problem of litigation
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Linear contracts are of particular interest to economists. They have a simple structure, yet they are very popular in practice. In this regard, plaintiff–lawyer contractual relationships are of particular interest. Lawyers’ fees are mostly paid by a sharing rule and they are typically a fixed proportion of the recovery across all lawsuits of the same type and this fixed proportion typically stays constant for many years. Such a simple and stable form of contract is puzzling to contract theorists. This paper presents a simple agency model with a risk-averse principal and a risk-neutral agent. We show that the observed puzzling features of contracts in litigation are in fact optimal behaviors, if a lawyer’s effort has a constant marginal cost. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. JEL classification: K00; K13
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