{"id":4811,"date":"2004-05-02T17:41:23","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T21:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/05\/02\/schaeffer-on-the-ethics-of-co"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:49","slug":"schaeffer-on-the-ethics-of-contingency-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/05\/02\/schaeffer-on-the-ethics-of-contingency-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Schaeffer on the Ethics of Contingency Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1422'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"left\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/Nysmall.gif\" alt=\"%key small\" \/>&nbsp; Our former editor made us promise to point to the much-anticipated posting on the ethics of contingency fees by personal injury lawyer and <EM>bon vivant<\/EM> <A href=\"http:\/\/www.legalunderground.com\/2004\/03\/a_public_servic.html\"><STRONG><FONT color=\"#42aac8\">Evan Schaeffer<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>.&nbsp; Well, it came out yesterday, at <A href=\"http:\/\/www.legalunderground.com\/\"><STRONG><FONT color=\"#42aac8\">Notes from the (Legal) Underground<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>, and you can find it right <A href=\"http:\/\/www.legalunderground.com\/2004\/05\/weekly_report_x.html\"><STRONG><FONT color=\"#42aac8\">here<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Although recently retired, <EM>ethicalEsq <\/EM>left his usual prolix comments at Evan&#8217;s place,&nbsp;and he and Evan, plus <A href=\"http:\/\/beldar.org\/\"><STRONG><FONT color=\"#2294bc\">Beldar<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>, continued the conversation, in what some may even consider an interesting debate, which you are invited to <A href=\"http:\/\/www.legalunderground.com\/2004\/05\/weekly_report_x.html\"><STRONG><FONT color=\"#42aac8\">join<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>.&nbsp; As you may recall, <EM>ethicalEsq<\/EM> is far from comfortable with the use of the standard contingency fee.&nbsp; Evan defends its use, but is <EM>mensch<\/EM> enough to link to <EM>ethicalEsq&#8217;<\/EM>s arguments, so we don&#8217;t have to.<\/FONT><br \/>\n<LI><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG><EM><FONT color=\"red\">thanks, evan<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG>.&nbsp;Now that Evan has fulfilled his pledge to write about contingency fees, he can go back to the far more entertaining fare that can normally be found at his <EM>Underground<\/EM> weblog.&nbsp; <\/FONT><\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P align=\"right\">&#8220;$key small&#8221; . .<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Our former editor made us promise to point to the much-anticipated posting on the ethics of contingency fees by personal injury lawyer and bon vivant Evan Schaeffer.&nbsp; Well, it came out yesterday, at Notes from the (Legal) Underground, and you can find it right here. 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