Contingent fees expand ordinary citizens’ access to civil courts.

Evidence

Proponents counter that most criticism of contingent fees is self-interested, coming from attorneys who represent insurance companies, corporations, and other defendants in personal injury cases rather than from plaintiffs in personal injury cases. More substantively, they insist that without contingent fees, average citizens would often not bring cases, even when they had suffered real injuries. They also deny that lawyers receive unduly high contingent fees. Such claims, they maintain, rely on a few atypical cases and ignore the risk that attorneys bear under contingent fee arrangements. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 745

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Contingent fees dominate accident and product-injury civil litigation; Without contingent fees, ordinary citizens with real injuries would often not sue. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1151; Ordinary plaintiffs can win court access and partial redress against corporations — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2164 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Without contingent fees, ordinary citizens with real injuries would often not sue. #corroborates (0.95) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1151
• Ordinary plaintiffs can win court access and partial redress against corporations #corroborates (0.80) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2164
• Resource disparities between litigants favor wealthy defendants in civil cases #qualifies (0.78) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1038
• Contingent fees dominate accident and product-injury civil litigation #expands (0.75)
• Contingent fees can create attorney-client conflicts over settlement versus trial. #complicates (0.75) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 744