In a series of influential papers, Lester Brickman (2003a, 2003b, 2004) has argued that the income and effective hourly rate of tort lawyers using contingent fees has increased by 1400% since 1960 and that the market for contingent fee lawyers is uncompetitive as evidenced by lack of price advertising and uniform pricing across practitioners, cases and time. He also argues that contingent fee l...

I empirically study the expert’s agency problem in the context of lawyers and their clients. Incentives of lawyers and clients are misaligned in dispute resolution under contingency fee arrangement with which lawyers receive a fraction of recovered payment as compensation while bearing the legal cost. Lawyers prefer to pursue a case less than their clients prefer as they incur all the legal cos...

BACKGROUND Self-employed workers experience occupational stress and may suffer from various mental health disorders. AIMS To assess the mental health, substance use and risk factors for psychological distress in a sample of self-employed lawyers and pharmacists. METHODS A cross-sectional study, using self-completion postal questionnaires, of lawyers and pharmacists. The General Health Quest...

Abstract In the last two decades, researchers have shown importance of metacognition in language learning and teaching. This paper focuses on students’ course ‘English for Lawyers’ at Masaryk University reports action research which was performed over period three years, 2019–2021. The objectives were twofold: to identify how students perceive their legal English lessons both content academic s...

Divorce and the Excess Burden of Lawyers We present a model where divorcing spouses can choose to hire lawyers in their divorce process. Spouses encounter incentives as in the classical prisoners’ dilemma: Despite the zero sum nature of the game and the lawyers’ fees, each spouse has an incentive to hire a lawyer. We propose a simple institutional setting allowing for joint lawyers in order to ...

Juridical English, judicial opinions written by judges of higher judiciary, is an extremely important genre for legal discourse community. In situations where learners’ first language is other than English, law students and recent law graduates in the profession of law reportedly find it hard to cope with a variety of tasks they are required to perform while reading judicial opinions/cases. The...

Many lawyers have been taught statistics at school or university. The conventional teaching of statistics, particularly in “service courses”, leads to lawyers absorbing a number of fallacies. These include: • probability assessments can only be made on the basis of long runs and repeated experiments • there is a distinction between “legal probability” and “mathematical probability”. What lawyer...