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- Title
Lawyers Seeking Clients, Clients Seeking Lawyers: Sources of Contingency Fee Cases And Their Implications for Case Handling.
- Authors
Kritzer, Herbert; Krishnan, Jayanth
- Abstract
Where do the clients of contingency fee lawyers come from, and what are the implications of client sources for contingency fee practice? Those are the questions this paper considers, drawing upon multiple sources of data. The analysis shows that relatively few clients come to lawyers' offices in response to advertising. Rather, it is the more traditional route of reputationally based referrals that bring in the vast majority of contingency fee clients. The importance of maintaining a reputation that will draw in future clients tends to curb the potential for abuses created by the inherent conflict of interest between lawyer and client that the contingency fee creates.
- Subjects
LAWYER referral service; PRACTICE of law; ATTORNEY &; client; CLIENTS
- Publication
Law & Policy, 1999, Vol 21, Issue 4
- ISSN
0265-8240
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9930.00077