附带法律发现的或有费用

IF 1 3区社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS

American Law and Economics Review Pub Date : 2016-04-01 DOI:10.1093/ALER/AHV020

F. Baumann, Tim Friehe

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引用次数: 7

摘要

本文分析了律师在选择和解条件和进行法律发现时，原告与其律师之间的委托代理关系。我们的目的是强调证据开示对原告最有利的或有费安排的影响。我们考虑了分岔的或有费，并表明法律发现的考虑削弱了和解或有费和判决或有费之间的标准不对称。为了获得原告-律师对的最大共同剩余，该安排必须规定非线性或有费用。

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Contingent Fees with Legal Discovery

This paper analyzes the principal-agent relationship between a plaintiff and her lawyer when the lawyer chooses the settlement offer and undertakes legal discovery. Our objective was to highlight the implications of discovery for the contingent-fee arrangement that is optimal for the plaintiff. We consider bifurcated contingent fees and show that the consideration of legal discovery attenuates the standard asymmetry between the contingent fee for a settlement and the contingent fee for a judgment. To obtain the maximal joint surplus of the plaintiff–lawyer pair, the arrangement must specify nonlinear contingent fees.

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期刊介绍： The rise of the field of law and economics has been extremely rapid over the last 25 years. Among important developments of the 1990s has been the founding of the American Law and Economics Association. The creation and rapid expansion of the ALEA and the creation of parallel associations in Europe, Latin America, and Canada attest to the growing acceptance of the economic perspective on law by judges, practitioners, and policy-makers.