David Giacalone at ethicalEsq? has posted a critique of a law review article entitled “Seven Dogged Myths About Contingency Fees“, published 2002 in the Washington University Law Quarterly and written by Prof. Herbert Kritzer of the University of Wisconsin, known as one of the more ardent academic defenders of the contingency fee. “Far from debunking the most important ‘myths’ about contingency fees,” Giacalone writes, “the Kritzer Article sets up an army of strawmen, shoots statistical and rhetorical blanks at them, and assures a hollow victory in the battle by using volunteer soldiers from the ranks of p/i lawyers.” (Jul. 30).

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