How the Market Solves an Assignment Problem: The Matching of Lawyers with Legal Claims

Spurr, Stephen J.

doi:10.1086/298159

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“…The nextlargest coefficient is the negative effect of being a lawyer in New York. The finding that being in New York has a negative effect on promotion to partnership has been reported in previous studies (Leibowitz and Tollison 1978;Spurr 1987). The size of the firm also has an adverse effect on the probability of promotion to partnership.…”

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Sex Discrimination in the Legal Profession: A Study of Promotion

Spurr¹

1990

ILR Review

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Although the proportion of lawyers who are women has grown rapidly in recent years, this study presents evidence of discrimination against women in promotion to partnership in major U.S. law firms in 1969–73 and 1980. Using regression analysis and maximum likelihood estimates of a probabilistic model of production of legal services, the author finds that women were about one-half as likely as men to achieve partnership in those years, even though they did not significantly differ from men in academic distinction (selection for the law review or the Order of the Coif), the rank of their law schools, or productivity.

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Sex Discrimination in the Legal Profession: A Study of Promotion

Spurr¹

1990

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“…There does not appear to be a statistically strong relationship with respect to firm size or age. Spurr (1987), using data from 14 large New York law firms from 1969 to 1973, found that promotions ranged from 3 years to over 10 years, with fewer early promotions than appear in my data. He found that law firms that handled bigger claims waited longer to promote.…”

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The Promotion Paradox: Organizational Mortality and Employee Promotion Chances in Silicon Valley Law Firms, 1946–1996

Phillips

2001

American Journal of Sociology

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“…Spurr, 1987Spurr, , 1988Spurr, , 1990Garicano and Santos, 2004;Kritzer, 2004;Parikh, 2001Parikh, , 2006Parikh, /2007Zamir andRitov, 2010, 2011;Brickman, 1989Brickman, , 2003aBrickman, , 2003bGaroupa and Gomez-Pomar, 2008). Some of this research is particularly relevant to the present analysis.…”

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Who Benefits from the Uniformity of Contingent Fee Rates?

Zamir

Medina

Segal

2014

Review of Law &Amp; Economics

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Lawyers' contingent fee (CF) rates are rather uniform, often one-third of the recovery. Arguably, this uniformity is a type of anti-competitive pricefixing, which results in clients paying supra-competitive fees. This paper challenges this argument. It shows that uniform CF rates provide clients with an important advantage, as such rates enable them to make a de facto "take-it-orleave-it" offer. Consequently, lawyers cannot exploit their private information, and clients retain the transaction's entire surplus and may hire the best lawyer among those who find it profitable to handle the case.The paper also addresses the effect of uniformity of CF rates when lawyers refer cases to other lawyers. It shows that uniformity facilitates matching of clients and lawyers through the referral system. It also demonstrates that the fact that both direct clients and those obtained through paid-for referrals pay the same CF rate does not attest to cross-subsidization. The clients whose cases are transferred for a referral fee (paid by the handling lawyer) "pay" for the referral service by obtaining a less highly ranked lawyer.

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How the Market Solves an Assignment Problem: The Matching of Lawyers with Legal Claims

Cited by 46 publications

References 8 publications

Sex Discrimination in the Legal Profession: A Study of Promotion

Sex Discrimination in the Legal Profession: A Study of Promotion

The Promotion Paradox: Organizational Mortality and Employee Promotion Chances in Silicon Valley Law Firms, 1946–1996

Who Benefits from the Uniformity of Contingent Fee Rates?

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