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...

registration institution is important institution that guarantees economic and legal security. human societies always noted this point and then created several registration systems and practiced one of theses for achievement to the security. but lack of attention and knowledge about effects and aims of registration real properties and their documents of transactions and therefore violating thes...

All psychologists must uphold the same ethical standards about confidentiality even though each state imposes different legal limits on their ability to protect clients' confidences. The resulting ethical-legal confusion is exacerbated by legally based confidentiality training that treats legal exceptions as if they were the rule and fosters the impression that attorneys are now the only real e...

To fulfill his professional responsibilities, an attorney must be guided by his obligations both to clients and the legal profession.' When he represents a client in litigation in which the adverse party is either a current 2 or a former 3 client, the attorney may be unable to discharge his obligations 4 He may be unable to preserve the confidences and secrets of his clients 5 or exercise indep...

Social workers in all practice areas are affected by interactions with the law and legal systems. Unfortunately, the profession has paid inadequate attention to education, scholarship, and practice in legal environments. This article introduces a new perspective for examining social work and the law called "therapeutic jurisprudence," which emanates from psychology/mental health law. Therapeuti...

―It is difficult for attorneys to counsel their clients and predict the way a judge may rule when the legal principles on which the court must base its discretion are unclear, ambiguous, and rife with contradiction.‖

Abstract Though judges and lawyers encourage claimants to settle disputes out of courts, may struggle managing out-of-court dispute resolution processes. Some the management struggles are related emotions clients. One reasons why it be difficult manage a client’s is because require different communication skillset from lawyers. The following note features some advice for law students on how inc...