Lawyers’ contingent fee (CF) rates are rather uniform, often one-third of the recovery. Arguably, this uniformity is a type of anti-competitive pricefixing, which results in clients paying supra-competitive fees. This paper challenges this argument. It shows that uniform CF rates provide clients with an important advantage, as such rates enable them to make a de facto “take-it-orleave-it” offer...

Even when related claims are not aggregated by any formal procedural mechanism, the lawyers involved in the separate lawsuits often coordinate their efforts. Such "informal aggregation" raises important questions about the boundaries of a dispute and the boundaries of the lawyer-client relationship. As an ethical matter, the central question is whether a lawyer owes ethical duties to a coordina...

Based on the analysis of legal acts that regulate processes professional selection personnel in field, as well modern scientific works, integrity a lawyer an ethical and category was investigated. A theoretical concept “integrity” is carried out article. The meaning essence clarified. It noted under it proposed to understand such behavior, which consists formation independent responsible positi...

Sloppy education results in misdirected graduates. We need to see legal as a matter of shaping adepts something that can be called caliber intellect. It is referring the university formation way thinking and perceiving world distinguishes studies from any other intellectual or scientific preparation. The author argues main must ensure graduates are historical lawyers. There two occupational pat...

Abstract Personal branding represents a very important issue in assessing the value created any activity. Some jobs can’t exist anymore without personal branding. More than that, some existing professional categories have to adapt these days, by adopting strategies, even though past it was no need for that. This article focuses on such category – lawyers. By conducting quantitative research amo...