Lester Brickman

Broschiertes Buch

Lawyer Barons

What Their Contingency Fees Really Cost America

Beschreibung

This book is an inquiry into how contingency fees distort our civil justice system, influence our political system and endanger democratic governance.

Autor

Lester Brickman is a Professor of Law and former Acting Dean at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, where he teaches contracts and legal ethics. He has written extensively on legal ethics and his writings have been widely cited in treatises, casebooks, scholarly journals and judicial opinions. Brickman is a leading authority on contingency fees and his writings on that subject are the basis for a proposal to realign the contingency fee system with its policy roots and ethical mandates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 785g
• ISBN-13: 9780521189491
• ISBN-10: 0521189497
• Artikelnr.: 32734599