This chapter reviews the literature on private sector lawyering. First summarizing a long line
of literature following Marc Galanter's 1974 classic, it explores studies that investigate …

This paper studies the link between lateral mobility and promotions. The first part of the
paper extends the theoretical literature by incorporating lateral moves into a job assignment …

This paper introduces the reduced-form approach to litigation selection models. A reduced
form comprises a joint distribution of parties' beliefs about the probability that a plaintiff …

Law and economics theorists have long advanced theories of litigation and settlement,
including the canonical Landes–Posner–Gould (LPG) and Priest and Klein (PK) models …

In many countries, labor courts play a central role in the determination of firing costs by
monitoring and supervising the procedures for dismissals, and, eventually, deciding …

When adjudication is not perfectly accurate, litigants with unmeritorious cases may benefit
from court errors, which in turn may result in a dilution of incentives for primary behavior and …

While" complexity science" has achieved significant successes in several interdisciplinary
fields such as economics and biology, it is only a very recent observation that legal systems …

We study the effect of fee shifting rules on litigation. First, we build a model to study the
theoretical effect of a change in cost-recovery rules on case filings,(postfiling) settlement, win …

As it pertains to court cases, the predilection toward a 50% plaintiff win rate is a well-known
proposition, first put forward in the Priest-Klein theory (Priest and Klein 1984). Numerous …

We consider a simple model of litigation contests in which each party dedicates both “case-
advancing” efforts that directly increase her probability of winning, as well as “adversarial” …