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- Title
Public Lawyers and Private Clients: An Empirical Observation on the Relative Success Rates of Cause Lawyers.
- Authors
Dotan, Yoav
- Abstract
Cause lawyering is often criticized for creating an untenable tension between the professional obligations of the lawyer to the individual client and the lawyer's ideological commitment to public causes. I sought to test empirically the validity of this argument by comparing the relative success rates of political lawyers and non-political lawyers in defending their clients' interests in litigation concerning house-demolition orders before the Israeli High Court of Justice. I found that the general success rates of political lawyers in the research population were significantly higher than those of non-political lawyers. These findings can serve as an additional support for the various arguments in favor of cause lawyering.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; LEGAL procedure; PUBLIC law; LAWYERS; ATTORNEY &; client
- Publication
Law & Policy, 1999, Vol 21, Issue 4
- ISSN
0265-8240
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9930.00079