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Tort reformers have long argued that contingency fees can put too much money in plaintiffs’ lawyers’ hands. A new article by Deborah L. Rhode Center researchers Nora Freeman Engstrom and Brianne Holland-Stergar asks a more basic question: Are contingency fees competitive at all?
Their ...answer: Not really.
In their recently published article, “Competition and Contingency Fees,” the authors reveal striking price uniformity, little public disclosure of fee information, and a market where clients cannot compare lawyers on price or performance.
They argue for greater transparency, including standardized “closing statements” that would show how contingency fee cases actually resolve, including what clients recover, what lawyers are paid, and how long cases take. The goal is to give clients better information, help policymakers regulate based on evidence, and make the market work more competitively.
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In a new article, Stanford Law Professor Nora Freeman Engstrom and University of Montana Professor Brianne Holland-Stergar tackle one of the longest-s
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At the recent CodeX LLM x Law Hackathon, the clock was ticking, whiteboards were filling up, and Stanford Law students Joshua Waldman, JD ’27, and Will Dinneen, JD ’28, were feverishly using AI to take copyright infringement search to the next level.
Created with teammates Chris Um of ...Cornell and Dhanin Wongpanich of UC Berkeley, the prize-winning tool they dubbed “Warhol” goes beyond “does an image look similar?” to ask whether it might raise a real infringement problem. Read more: https://brnw.ch/21x2jR8
The Stanford Law School Law & Policy Lab, Heterodox Academy, and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society will co-sponsor a panel discussion on Monday May 11 from noon to 2 p.m. PT.
The panel will explore the Trump administration's efforts to impose conditions for federal ...funding and its use of other mechanisms to restrict academic freedom, particularly in the conduct of research.
RSVP: https://brnw.ch/21x2ic1
AI is moving quickly into politics, government, and democratic life. A new volume co-edited by Stanford Law School’s Nathaniel Persily, JD ’98, examines what that means for campaigns, public administration, national security, public opinion, and the future of political science.
...Persily, a leading scholar on technology regulation and the law of democracy, co-edited Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Political Science with New York University professor Joshua A. Tucker. The volume brings together more than 50 contributors and is now available in draft form on the American Political Science Association website, ahead of publication by Cambridge University Press.
Read more: https://brnw.ch/21x2hoP