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- Title: What Judges Think of the Quality of Legal Representation.
- Author : Stanford Law School
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 363 KB
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INTRODUCTION Evaluating the legal profession is a daunting task. The profession is highly decentralized, and lawyers work in myriad practice settings. Most litigation ends in settlement, (1) creating little or no public record. Lawyers increasingly specialize, (2) which complicates comparison across areas of law. Because lawyers and clients typically choose one another, it is difficult to separate lawyer ability from ease characteristics. (3) For these reasons, much of our understanding of legal representation comes from careful examination of discrete segments of the profession, (4) practice settings, (5) or geographic regions. (6)