We study the value of information on the quality of legal services by analyzing the incentives of litigants to hire high-quality lawyers and the effect of legal representation on the decision-making behaviour of adjudicators.In a setting where adjudicators have reputational concerns and where...

This paper focuses on the anti-torture campaign that was catalyzed into existence in mid-2004 following the publication of the Abu Ghraib photos and the release of the first batch of "torture memos." Because the Bush administration essentially "legalized" torture, litigation has been the primary...

The number of lawyers working for large U.S. law firms has increased dramatically. One important manifestation of this is the growing network of branch offices. Informed by three theories of spatial change — law firms (i) following the geographic expansion of their clients, relying on (ii)...