{"id":4694,"date":"2004-02-01T19:19:05","date_gmt":"2004-02-01T23:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/02\/01\/could-this-happen-in-the-lega"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:59:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:59:05","slug":"could-this-happen-in-the-legal-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/02\/01\/could-this-happen-in-the-legal-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"Could This Happen in the Legal Profession?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a672'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/briefcasewomengray.gif\" alt=\"briefcase women\" \/><\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM><A href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygazette.com\/\">The Sunday Gazette<\/A><\/EM> (Schenectady, New York) reports today that former marine and state trooper <STRONG>Paul Semanek<\/STRONG> has been elected 2004 <STRONG>president<\/STRONG> of the Capital Region Chapter of the <STRONG>Women&#8217;s<\/STRONG> <STRONG>Council of Realtors<\/STRONG>.&nbsp;(&#8220;Man heads women&#8217;s group,&#8221; 02-01-04, at B4, E5; available by subscription; confirmation is available <A href=\"http:\/\/albany.bizjournals.com\/albany\/stories\/2003\/04\/07\/daily56.html\">here<\/A>, from the <EM>Albany Business Review<\/EM>)&nbsp; <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Could this happen &#8212; has it happened &#8212; in the often hyper-<A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/01\/03#a451\">gender-aware<\/A> legal profession?&nbsp; Wouldn&#8217;t it be a good sign?<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Another thing that happens&nbsp;among realtors&nbsp;but not in the legal profession:&nbsp; Meaningful (and advertised) price competition for services which were historically provided at a &#8220;standard&#8221; percentage rate by all providers.&nbsp;&nbsp; We can dream.&nbsp;&nbsp; We&#8217;ll soon have more to say on this topic, when we discuss a recent law review article by <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Cardozo Prof. Lester Brickman,<br \/>\n<TABLE cellSpacing=\"0\" cellPadding=\"0\" width=\"520\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\n<TBODY><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<DIV align=\"left\"><A href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=463226\"><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">The Market for Contingent Fee-Financed Tort Litigation: Is It Price Competitive?<\/FONT><\/A><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE>(abstract) which looks at&nbsp;evidence and reasons for the lack of price competition&nbsp;over fees by p\/i lawyers. 25 Cardozo L.Rev. 65 (Nov. 2003).&nbsp; One section of the article contrasts price competition among realtors (with flat fees, lowered percentages, blended rates, etc.) with the lack of price competition among p\/i lawyers.&nbsp; <\/FONT><\/LI><\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Gazette (Schenectady, New York) reports today that former marine and state trooper Paul Semanek has been elected 2004 president of the Capital Region Chapter of the Women&#8217;s Council of Realtors.&nbsp;(&#8220;Man heads women&#8217;s group,&#8221; 02-01-04, at B4, E5; available by subscription; confirmation is available here, from the Albany Business Review)&nbsp; Could this happen &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1dI","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14008,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions\/14008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}