title: Payment for legal services in the USA civil procedure: Contingent fee, American rule and their impact on the judicial caseload
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metadata.value: Kniazev, Dmitrii V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-10-15T10:10:26Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-10-15T10:10:26Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Kniazev, Dmitrii V. 2021. “Payment for legal services in the USA civil procedure: Contingent fee, American rule and their impact on the judicial caseload”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law 3: 693–711.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2021.313
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33313
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article deals with the influential mechanism of the contingent fee and the American rule
  on the number of filings to the US judicial system, and, consequently, on the judicial caseload
  as a whole. The author concludes that at the moment there is no uniform idea about the role
  of contingent fee arrangements and the American rule in the growth of the number of filings
  to courts. There are two opposing views on this issue: those who stand on the side of the plaintiffs’
  attorneys (and therefore for the contingent fee and for the American rule), on the one
  hand, and those who act on behalf of the defendants (which means against these institutions).
  With certainty, it can only be argued that the contingent fee and the American rule complement
  each other. The contingent fee justifies its existence by expanding the accessibility of
  justice. Under the fee, those who are unable to pay for the services of a lawyer get the opportunity
  to go to court. And this availability is largely based on the plaintiff ’s belief that even in the
  event of a loss, he will not have to pay the defendant’s costs. Together, these rules, according
  to their supporters, make it possible to ensure the implementation of one of the unshakable
  values — the right of every American to get their “day in court”. At the same time, many facts
  indicate that the “bundle” of the contingent fee and the American rule has led to an increase
  in the number of clearly unreasonable, frivolous, nuisance lawsuits that are filed not with the
  aim of obtaining a positive court decision, but only to persuade the defendant to accept a settlement
  agreement on the payment of compensation to the plaintiff.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The reported study was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project number 19-011-
  00202.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Law;Volume 12; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USA civil procedure
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USA litigation crisis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: frivolous lawsuits
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: contingent fee
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: American rule
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Payment for legal services in the USA civil procedure: Contingent fee, American rule and their impact on the judicial caseload
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metadata.value: Article
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