Key Characteristics / Legal Skills
Typical showing of Plaintiff's Practice in pop culture
What are ambulance chasers or big billboards along the highway?
Plaintiffs’ practices which are built on frequently occurring, lower-value car wreck cases – and are now adversely impacted by tort reform – are known as ____ and ____ practices.
What is "bread (and) butter"?
Model Rule regarding attorney's fees
What is Model Rule 1.5?
Provides funding to lawyers and litigants in exchange for a share of the recovery.
Technology ______ the speed at which law is practiced.
What is increases?
Stereotypes associated with Plaintiff's Practice
What is being less competent and less ethical?
In the mid-20th century, while Chicago’s corporate practices held prestige through their prowess in negotiation, the ‘underdog’ plaintiffs’ practices focused on ____ in pursuit of professional respectability
What is litigation/trying cases?
Phrase meaning lawyers are only paid if they recover money at trial or through settlement?
What is "paid on contingency"?
Non-fee litigation finance allows ______ _____ ______ without being outspent
True or false: Advice obtained through the internet must always conform with the formal rules.
What is false, sometimes it does but it is not a requirement?
Main legal skills relevant to Plaintiff's Practice
What are strong litigation and trial advocacy?
In the Texas Plaintiffs’ Bar, lawyers observed that their returns on cases have become especially poor on which category of damages?
What are non-economic damages?
The two methods for calculating attorneys' fees in Bluetooth
What are the lodestar method (hours expended and reasonable hourly rate for region/experience) and the percentage of recovery method (often 25% of fund viewed as reasonable).
Helps with financial risk in non-fee litigation but does not completely eliminate risks
What are financial planning and case management?
Alleged in most complaints of clients in the age of technology in legal practice
What are neglect of client matters and failure to communicate?
Small firm lawyers are disciplined at a far ______ _____ than their big law counterparts.
What is "higher rate?"
What is the Medical Malpractice Reform Act?
What is being described:
Where highly organized referral networks take business out of poorer neighborhoods and transfer cases to high-end lawyers.
What is a harm from referral fees networks?
The concerns associated with funders contracting directly with clients rather than attorneys
What are independence and loyalty concerns?
Concerns associated with technology's allowance of broader opportunities for collaboration and partnership agreements in the law