AEI Press, 2005

   This study, one of the first empirical examinations of contingent fee limits, finds that contingent fees benefit plaintiffs and do not cause higher awards.

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If America is a lawsuit hell, then contingent-fee lawyers are often considered its devils. Contingent fees have been called unwarranted and the lawyers who accept them have been denounced as unethical and uncivilized. Furthermore, in the midst of increased filings and escalating awards, it is difficult not to notice that some plaintiffs  lawyers have become very rich. As a result, tort reformers have called for limits on contingent fees and many states have obliged. But limits have been enacted without any evidence that contingent fees were either responsible for the liability crisis or that limiting them would produce benefits.

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