Emons, Winand; Garoupa, Nuno - In: Managerial and Decision Economics 27 (2006) 5, pp. 379-385
Under contingent fees, the attorney gets a share of the judgment; under conditional fees, the lawyer gets an upscale premium if the case is won which is, however, unrelated to the adjudicated amount. We compare conditional and contingent fees in a principal-agent framework where the lawyer...