What must a poor person plead to gain access to the federal courts? How do courts decide when a poor litigant is poor enough? This Article answers those questions with the first …
It is well known that plaintiff-side contingent representation is on the rise in patent litigation. But why? And what are the lawyers in the field like? Although scholars have studied …
T Eisenberg, GP Miller - Cornell L. Rev., 2012 - HeinOnline
Jurisdictional competition for legal business is intense. States in the United States have long competed for legal business,'and the phenomenon is growing in Europe. 2 Attorney-fee …
This Article argues that the rise of the modern state was a necessary condition for the rise of the business corporation. A typical business corporation pools together a large number of …
"[W] e're real people here and we're not worth dirt," declared a plaintiff bringing suit against an insurance company.'" People should have dignity in their lives," one medical malpractice …
IG Cohen - Journal of Legal Analysis, 2013 - academic.oup.com
There is a deepening crisis in the funding of legal services in the USA with cut backs in Legal Services Corporation and Interest on Lawyers Trust Account funding, rendering more …
With growing economic inequality,'questions of distributive justice have become increasingly prominent in legal scholarship, particularly public law scholarship. 2 Civil procedure …
What is the right thing to serve our shareholders and our customers and our fundamental mission, which is about empowering people around the world? It starts with the law and then …
This six-meter aluminum female form hangs on a building, opened in 2002, on a busy street comer in Melbourne, Australia.'Why did the designers assume that passers-by would …